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by FirmwareBurner 928 days ago
You don't need specific hardware, it will run on non-TPM devices as well.

I've also noticed that if you build the ISO yourself via UUP dump[1], instead of using the official ISO from Microsoft, then you get a bare start menu with no bloatware or ads, just Explorer and Edge. Nice.

[1] https://uupdump.net/
2 comments
Alifatisk 928 days ago
> You don't need specific hardware, it will run on non-TPM devices as well.

Oh, because the update button in the settings says my hardware does not meet the requirements.

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FirmwareBurner 928 days ago
I meant if you do a clean install via UUP dump generated ISO or a Rufus modified ISO, then it bypassed the TPM check.

Updating an existing install on non compliant HW via the official update button obviously doesn't work (unless there's some hacks for it that came out, I don't know I always do a clean install between major versions since I don't want all the years of cruft and changes from one version to be carried over and maybe mess up something).

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Alifatisk 928 days ago
> Updating an existing install on non compliant HW via the official update button > do a clean install via UUP dump generated ISO or a Rufus modified ISO, then it bypassed the TPM check

I'll have backup my stuff before a clean install then, not ready yet but thanks for the guide! I'll do it when I get the time.

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FirmwareBurner 928 days ago
BTW, IIRC if you go the UUP dump route, then you should also be able to run the windows 11 installer directly from windows 10 after you mount the generated ISO so maybe you can indeed run the update instead of clean install. I did the update that way on a tablet, but that had TPM but no official Windows 11 support.
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anticensor 927 days ago
Some third party userspace apps may still silently crash due to missing TPM.
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FirmwareBurner 927 days ago
Like which apps?
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jart 927 days ago
> You don't need specific hardware, it will run on non-TPM devices as well.

The article says that if you don't buy a new computer with TPM 2.0 then you have to migrate to "the cloud" in order to use Windows 11. What the flip is a Cloud PC? How much a panopticon for spying will that make my daily life working in PuTTY?

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