Windows 11

Microsoft now requires a calculator to have a TPM 2.0 module to install Windows xi. However, new Registry entries take been discovered that allow you to bypass the TPM requirement and minimum memory and secure kick requirements.

With Windows eleven, Microsoft added new minimum system requirements that all devices need to have a TPM 2.0 security processor to power some of the operating system's security features.

"The post-obit Windows features require TPM 2.0: Measured Boot, Device Encryption, WD System Guard, Device Wellness Testament, Windows Hello/How-do-you-do for Business, TPM Platform Crypto Provider Key Storage, SecureBIO, DRTM, vTPM in Hyper-V," Microsoft told BleepingComputer.

For well-nigh people running CPUs created in the by 5-6 years, a firmware-based TPM (fTPM) is built into the CPU and can be enabled in the BIOS.

To enable the fTPM, simply boot your figurer into the BIOS and enable the Intel Platform Trust Engineering (Intel PTT) or the AMD Platform Security Processor, depending on your CPU.

For those who do non accept this characteristic, y'all may be able to install a discrete TPM 2.0 processor on the motherboard. Nonetheless, if your processor is onetime plenty that information technology does not accept ane built-in fTPM, your motherboard's module will probable be TPM 1.two, which is not compatible with Windows xi.

This requirement is frustrating for users running Windows x on older equipment, as now they are being forced to purchase new hardware to install Windows 11.

Furthermore, as Microsoft has stated in documentation that OEMs can get permission to disable the TPM requirement in Windows 11 for their devices, the question becomes: Practice you really need a TPM two.0 processor to utilise Windows 11?

How to bypass the TPM requirement in Windows 11

If you are attempting to install Windows 11 and receive a message stating, "This PC tin can't run Windows 11," it is probable that yous practise not have a TPM 2.0 installed or enabled.

The good news is that Microsoft includes a new 'LabConfig' registry key that allows y'all to configure settings to bypass the TPM 2.0, the 4GB retentiveness, and Secure Kicking requirements.

Based on the proper name of this registry cardinal, it is likely used past Microsoft or OEMs to set up a "lab" environment to test the Windows 11 on older equipment or when testing new features.

To featherbed the TPM 2.0 requirements when installing Windows xi, please follow these steps:

  1. Install Windows 11 via an ISO or the Windows 11 Insider Program. While installing Windows 11, if your calculator does not meet the hardware requirements, yous will see a message stating, "This PC can't run Windows 11."
    Windows 11 setup blocked due to missing hardware requirements
    Windows 11 setup blocked due to missing hardware requirements
  2. When y'all see the above message, press Shift+F10 on your keyboard at the aforementioned time to launch a command prompt.  At this control prompt, type regedit and press enter to launch the Windows Registry Editor.
    Opening command prompt in Windows Setup
    Opening control prompt in Windows Setup
  3. When the Registry Editor opens, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Arrangement\Setup, right-click on the Setup key and select New > Fundamental.

    When prompted to proper name the key, enter LabConfig and press enter.

    Now right-click on the LabConfig key and select New > DWORD  (32-scrap) value and create a value named BypassTPMCheck,and ready its information to 1. At present create the BypassRAMCheck and BypassSecureBootCheck values and set their data to i every bit well, then it looks similar the post-obit image.

    Configuring the Registry to bypass hardware requirements
    Configuring the Registry to bypass hardware requirements
  4. Once you configure those three values under the LabConfig key, close the Registry Editor, and then type go out in the Control Prompt followed by enter to shut the window.
  5. You will now be back at the message stating that the PC can't run Windows xi. Click on the back push in the Windows Setup dialog, as shown below.
    Press the back button in Windows setup
    Press the dorsum button in Windows setup
  6. You will now be back at the screen prompting y'all to select the version of Windows 11 y'all wish to install. You tin now continue with the setup, and the hardware requirements volition be bypassed, assuasive you lot to install Windows 11.
    Hardware requirements are now bypassed
    Hardware requirements are at present bypassed

It is important to notation that disabling these features could touch the operation or stability of Windows 11, and so be sure to only utilise them on a virtual machine or test box that are you are ok with working in an unsupported environs.

Furthermore, by disabling the TPM 2.0 requirement, you lot are effectively reducing the security in Windows eleven.

Finally, running Windows xi on anything less than 4GB will non be an optimal experience and is not recommended.

H/T Albacore