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I'd be happy to upgrade to 11 if they would let me. I'm running 10 on a powerful, expensive PC that 11 won't accept.

I've had nearly perfect success using the setup command line argument to install as "server". It says "Server" during the install but that's not what ends up being installed.

This has been patched out[0] of newer builds but a 24H2 install media will still work for an in-place upgrade.

[0] https://winaero.com/microsoft-has-patched-the-product-server...

Use rufus.ie to burn a USB that has the hardware restrictions removed. Works a treat IME.

For now

Did you check your BIOS settings to see if you can turn on the TPM? Worked for me on several circa 2018 custom built machines. The builder, Puget Systems, shipped the machines with the TPM turned off. With the TPM turned on, Win 11 installed without undue drama.

This is good advice, I discovered two of my PCs had tpms just disabled at bios level. Though in the end I've got so annoyed with the advertising I've moved one of them to Linux and the other will ditch windows too, eventually.

You were right. A little googling for my bios name and TPM turned up the magic switches I needed to flip to make Windows 11 happy.

That it doesn't run Windows 11 is a feature - that way, you can choose when to make the move, or choose not to, or choose something else entirely.

Upgrading to Windows 11 is possible from an unsupported Windows 10 machine by adjusting a registry setting and downloading an ISO from Microsoft.

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