Bypassing Windows 11's hardware requirements is trivial, there is even an official means, but that requires TMP 1.2. Install Windows 11 using a clean install, then ...

TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module. It is a technology designed to provide hardware-based, security-related functions to the supported devices. A TPM is a chip and is one of the required hardware ...

Want to upgrade to Windows 11 but your computer lacks TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, or has an unsupported CPU? This guide will help you do just that. This guide will show you how to perform an in-place ...

When Microsoft introduced Windows 11 in 2021, its new, stringent hardware compatibility test included checking for the presence of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) -- specifically, one that meets the ...

However, Windows 11 is not always an easy upgrade—especially if your PC is more than five years old. Microsoft's stringent hardware requirements mean a number of ...

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. Microsoft keeps adding more and more stuff to Windows and it often seems to get in the way more than it helps. A ...

If you want to de-enshittify Windows 11 but find starting over from scratch to be daunting, then this is for you.

Above and beyond the benefits of a fresh do-over, clean installing Windows 11 improves security, exposes new features, and more. With the Windows 10 end of support date arriving on October 14, ...