News Microsoft patches TPM 2.0 bypass to prevent Windows 11 installs on PCs with unsupported CPUs

[Admin]

It has been discovered that Windows 11 Insider Build 27686 (Dilithium) has a patch that disables the '/product server' command line used by those without a TPM 2.0-supported CPU, permanently skipping the hardware verification process.

Microsoft patches TPM 2.0 bypass to prevent Windows 11 installs on PCs with unsupported CPUs : Read more

 

[USAFRet]

From the article:
"Windows 11 CPU compatibility begins from Intel 10th-gen"


From MS:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/w...pported/windows-11-supported-intel-processors
"Intel® Core™ i3-8100"

Fact checking....

 

[usertests]

The real trick is to install Linux.

 

[hotaru251]

and MS just made so much e-waste...

they should remove the req as it is barely any safer than non tpm for home users :|

 

[thestryker]

Microsoft from day one has indicated TPM is a hard requirement (they allow depreciation to 1.2) so this isn't particularly surprising. They still have the bypass for CPU checks and TPM listed for ways to install Win11. At this point I'd be surprised if they took away the CPU bypass and TPM 1.2 minimum, but you never know.

 

[rluker5]

TPM =/= whitelist of CPUs.
There are dTPM tiny cards out there and many motherboards come with an integrated dTPM.

Sure there are some that don't have an integrated motherboard TPM and don't have a slot for a discrete one, but that isn't all of them.

The Haswells that I use exclusively for either home office stuff or garage streaming are still fast enough and Windows isn't complaining that they are TPM 1.2 (unlike my Kaby Lake laptop that has an unupdated 2.0 chip) so I think they are still fine.

But does this mean that Tom's will start testing their Ryzen chips with fTPM enabled?

 

[russell_john]

All that this will accomplish is having millions of unsupported Windows 10 computers on the Internet

 

[passivecool]

"It is funny that the EU got their panties in such a twist over the "e-waste" of Lightning cables..."
weeeeeeeeeell it was more about the other types of usb and legion of other proprietary plug types, of which most were hardwired to the chargers. That was a pain. Now i can load the handyvac by usbc, which is cool. The legislation feels more like the ban on roaming fees for cell data than the decree on the necessary straightness of cucumbers. .... a many edged sword to be sure, much sensible, also much not.
BUT OT as long as win 10 remains "the last version of windows" ie is not discontinued before 95% of the devices are out of service, I'm guessing the eu will keep the feet still.

 

[doughillman]

The real trick is to install Linux.

 

[palladin9479]

Friends do not let friends install Windows 11.

 

[USAFRet]

Friends do not let friends install Windows 11.

I dunno...I have no issues with it on 2 of my systems. Incl this one I'm using now.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Friends do not let friends install Windows 11.

Never had a problem with it on my desktop nor my laptop, and only had to reenter my Bitlocker key on my "unsupported" Surface Pro 3 when the July update bug made you re-enter it.

https://www.techpowerup.com/325014/windows-11-july-update-breaks-bitlocker-forces-recovery

 

[palladin9479]

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

And yet we have had that choice since Windows 10...

 

[ThomasKinsley]

And yet we have had that choice since Windows 10...

Alas, that only works on Pro whereas Microsoft treats their Home users as prisoners to their update schedule.

 

[Guardians Bane]

I dunno...I have no issues with it on 2 of my systems. Incl this one I'm using now.

US Army vet... (Aviation for me. AH-64 stuff). Nice to see another veteran on here! Huah!!!

\m/

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Alas, that only works on Pro whereas Microsoft treats their Home users as prisoners to their update schedule.

You can get an OEM Windows 11 Pro key for $10-$20, which comes with a bonus of being able to do a completely clean install and get rid of all the crapware OEMs load into their systems these days.

 

[USAFRet]

You can get an OEM Windows 11 Pro key for $10-$20, which comes with a bonus of being able to do a completely clean install and get rid of all the crapware OEMs load into their systems these days.

Thats debatable, but lets not go down THAT weird off topic road.
Deal?

 

[Sippincider]

"Let go of the past!" hardball.

From a company still using the 3.5" disk icon as the save button across their systems and products...

(Also DOS and most existing Windows versions (3.1 thru 10) are likely to remain in regular use for at least the next century, despite MS' best efforts to make them go away.)

 

[brandonjclark]

US Army vet... (Aviation for me. AH-64 stuff). Nice to see another veteran on here! Huah!!!

\m/

and another...

 

[COLGeek]

Nobody is forcing anyone to use any version of Windows on non-compliant systems. There are alternatives to prevent from becoming e-waste.

Just putting that out there.

 

[COLGeek]

US Army vet... (Aviation for me. AH-64 stuff). Nice to see another veteran on here! Huah!!!

\m/

You need to work or your "Huah!!!", HOOAH!!!

 

[tristanx]

I guess Microsoft wants to lose users. People will switch to other OS.

 

[USAFRet]

I guess Microsoft wants to lose users. People will switch to other OS.

As has been said every year for the last 3 decades.

 

[aldan]

I dunno...I have no issues with it on 2 of my systems. Incl this one I'm using now.

me either.running an an fx6300.