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With Windows 10 almost at the end of its lifecycle, Microsoft has been aggressively pushing users to upgrade their machines to Windows 11. However, a report last year hinted that Microsoft ending Windows 10 support could send somewhere around 240 million PCs to landfills.
This may be attributed to Microsoft’s stringent requirements for PCs to have TPM 2.0 compatible hardware, which the company doubled down on just a week ago. But in an unexpected move, the tech giant recently issued instructions for installing Windows 11 on older PCs that do not meet its hardware requirements.
On a support page, Microsoft warned that if you install Windows 11 on an incompatible device, “you should be comfortable assuming the risk of running into compatibility issues.” It goes on to say that these devices may malfunction, encounter issues like system crashes and won’t necessarily receive system and security updates.
To check if your Windows 10 PC meets the minimum Windows 11 system requirements, users can head over to the PC Health Check app. For those wondering, Windows 11 is available as a free upgrade for Windows 10 users, with the only catch being that your Windows edition will be preserved. The Microsoft support page suggests that if you install Windows 11 on a device that doesn’t meet the hardware requirements, a watermark will be added to the desktop and in the Settings app.
Also, if you do not like the update or happen to encounter any stability or other issues, just head over to the Recovery app and choose the ‘Go back’ option, which is only available for 10 days following the Windows 11 upgrade. After this period, Windows automatically deleted the files to roll back to the previous version to free up disk space.
