Microsoft has sneakily removed a support document showing users how to install Windows 11 on unsupported devices. This is likely due to the company’s push for users to buy new PCs that meet the hardware requirements for Windows 11.
Back when Windows 11 was first released in 2021, it was announced that TPM 2.0 would be added as a hardware requirement. This turned out to be an unpopular move among customers. In response, Microsoft published a support article explaining how this requirement can be bypassed by editing the registry key values.
The article in question came with warnings to let users know that they are using the workaround at their own risk and that this method is not recommended. However, Microsoft has updated this article sometime within the past two months to exclude the registry key trick. An older version of the article with the workaround is still accessible through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, but it’s uncertain whether the TPM 2.0 bypass trick still works.
Meanwhile, support for Windows 10 ends in October this year, which will leave older PCs with Windows 10 vulnerable to malware as they will no longer receive critical security updates. Microsoft also has no intention of lowering the hardware requirements for Windows 11, which means many users face the difficult choice of remaining on Windows 10 or buying new PCs.
(Source: Neowin)
Nurul Kamil contributed to this article.
