My new PC is technically just a cloned drive of my old PC C drive, but too much hardware has chnaged and windows activation is not working. Sadly this was a windows 7 key, which was upgraded to 10 and linked to a Microsoft account, but now I’m not sure if I need to “remove” the old instance of the machine from my account and try to activate again or if I need to get MS support involved because I know the windows 7 key to 10 upgrade pipeline no longer works for windows 11.
This is it–the best version of Windows 11.
How much can you trust this? I don’t know. But it may be an option for some.
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Having done a bunch more experimenting, for those who don’t have a computer with a TPM chip, you have two good options:
- There’s a fix using Rufus that allows you to bypass the TPM and other requirements on Windows 11 install. You can upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 without any data loss. Works a treat!
- There’s actually a “lite” version called Windows 11 LTSC IoT that is missing a lot of features like Copilot that you probably don’t even want. The major downside is that it’s a different version of windows, so unless you’re already running Windows 10 LTSC it will remove your programs and such on installing.
You can use a search machine to figure out the rest - or DM me if you need more info.
So Windows 11 only checks for the TPM on install? After being installed everything is just AOK? It installs Windows updates normally? Features like Windows Hello that would presumably use the TPM work and don’t cause errors when the TPM can’t be found?
Windows 11 no longer recognizes my Bluetooth cards no idea why
Yeah I am waiting until the next update to test that. This is just on a spare machine so I can make sure everything is all sweet before I do this on an important machine.
(I guess I could not download the updates during installation and then get the updates after, but too late now!)