Question How to upgrade from Win 10 to 11 and activating Win 11 without an MS account

[Maineman]

I have a Win 10 laptop and want to upgrade to Win 11. Questions - (1) How to change Win 10 legacy BIOS to UEFI? (2) How to upgrade to or install TMP 2.0. (3) PC Health check reports the CPU (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.59 GHz) isn't supported for Win 11 but the CPU is on the Win 11 approved CPU list.

I also have a new laptop that came with Win 11. How can Win 11 be set up without an MS account?

 

[USAFRet]

I have a Win 10 laptop and want to upgrade to Win 11

Why?

but the CPU is on the Win 11 approved CPU list.

I don't see it:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...pported/windows-11-supported-intel-processors

I also have a new laptop that came with Win 11. How can Win 11 be set up without an MS account?

You know you can use any email address for an "MS account".
Mine is a google email.

 

[hotaru.hino]

And even then, you can always register for an Outlook email just for Windows and not give Microsoft anything else, if that's a concern.

 

[USAFRet]

And even then, you can always register for an Outlook email just for Windows and not give Microsoft anything else, if that's a concern.

Exactly.
I do NOT use my "MS account" for daily operations, on any of my systems.

There is always a local standard user and local admin account.
The MS account (a gmail address) is only used if I need to do something with the licensing, or the exceedingly rare case I need something from the MS store.

 

[Maineman]

Why?

Why not?


I don't see it:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...pported/windows-11-supported-intel-processors

I do:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...ed/windows-10-21h2-supported-intel-processors


You know you can use any email address for an "MS account".
Mine is a google email.

That may be but the Win 11 set up page on the new laptop will only accept an MS account. Entering a non-MS email results in "invalid email".

 

[USAFRet]

That may be but the Win 11 set up page on the new laptop will only accept an MS account. Entering a non-MS email results in "invalid email".

You have to create the 'MS account' first, outside of the new setup.
Then use that in the setup page.

 

[Maineman]

Exactly.
I do NOT use my "MS account" for daily operations, on any of my systems.

There is always a local standard user and local admin account.
The MS account (a gmail address) is only used if I need to do something with the licensing, or the exceedingly rare case I need something from the MS store.

I am not asking what is possible. I am asking how to do what some claim is possible.

 

[USAFRet]

I am not asking what is possible. I am asking how to do what some claim is possible.

If "some claim it is possible", do it the way they say to do it.

Personally, I don't see the existence of a Microsoft account as being some sort of burden.
It is just another log in to a different site and resource.
It does not impose any infraction on my ops in any way.

 

[Maineman]

Thanks for the commentary but I am no closer to changing the Win 10 legacy BIOS to UEFI, upgrading to or installing TMP 2.0, or why MS PC Health check reports the CPU (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.59 GHz) isn't supported for Win 11 even though the CPU is on the Win 11 approved CPU list.

I also am no closer to getting the Win 11 set up to accepting anything other than an MS email account.

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks for the commentary but I am no closer to changing the Win 10 legacy BIOS to UEFI, upgrading to or installing TMP 2.0, or why MS PC Health check reports the CPU (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.59 GHz) isn't supported for Win 11 even though the CPU is on the Win 11 approved CPU list.

I also am no closer to getting the Win 11 set up to accepting anything other than an MS email account.

The "i7-6500U " is not on the supported list.
Unless you have some documentation I've not seen.

A link to this?

 

[Maineman]

The "i7-6500U " is not on the supported list.
Unless you have some documentation I've not seen.

A link to this?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-10-21h2-supported-intel-processors

 

[USAFRet]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-10-21h2-supported-intel-processors

That is the support list for Win 10.

Your statement of "but the CPU is on the Win 11 approved CPU list." is incorrect.
The list for Win 10 is not the same as 11.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...pported/windows-11-supported-intel-processors

 

[hotaru.hino]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-10-21h2-supported-intel-processors

That's for Windows 10.

This is the Windows 11 list: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...pported/windows-11-supported-intel-processors

 

[Maineman]

This website has certainly gone downhill. I asked for help and got pejorative comments. I ask how to upgrade from Win 10 to Win 11 and got Why?
Who cares? That is what I want to do. All the moderator needed to do is answer my question, not ask why I wanted to upgrade to Win 11.

I also asked how to activate Windows 11 on a new laptop without using an MS account and got - Any email can be used and an MS account is only for Win 11. WRONG ON BOTH COUNTS!!! GRRR! I didn't get a valid answer and used an MS email account to set up Win 11 on a new computer. Now I find the default user is my MS email account name and everything gets saved to One Drive in the cloud. That is the very situation I wanted to avoid. Now I need to undo what I did, based on inaccurate information I got here.

I am not a professional computer tech but have been building, troubleshooting, and repairing computers for family and friends since before windows. I only ask questions here when I can't figure it out myself. So long Tom's Hardware, I won't be back.