Win 11 upgrade?

[JamesWAL]

How do I go about making my systems ability to upgrade to Win 11? It says, it doesn't currently meet the minimum system requirements to run Windows 11.

The two issues I have are: 

- My cpu is an Intel I5-6600 @ 3.3GHz

- This must support Secure Boot 

Everything else is good.

Please help. Thanks.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Unfortunately, there aren't any hardware upgrades you can do to make the PC meet Microsoft's minimum W11 hardware requirements.

If you are interested in installing W11 on your PC as is, you can read this discussion for how I upgraded several HP and Dell notebook and desktop PC's that did not meet the W11 hardware requirements to W11 22H2.

You have to use the version of the Rufus utility that I zipped up and attached in the discussion (v3.18).

Re: Issues upgrading to windows 11 - HP Support Community - 8517912

If the in-place upgrade fails, you should be able to clean install W11 using the bootable W11 installation flash drive you made with Rufus.

I upgraded my HP Elitedesk 800 G3 Mini PC which has the i5-6500T and it runs W11 Pro just fine.

If you can't enable the secure boot setting, that means Windows my be installed in Legacy mode.

Run the system information app and check the BIOS mode line.

If it indicates UEFI, you should be able to go into the BIOS and enable secure boot.

If it indicates Legacy, you will have to install Windows by booting the installation media from the EFI USB flash drive.

You can still do the in-place upgrade to W11 if W10 is installed in Legacy mode.

I have W11 running fine on old PC's that don't meet any of the Micrsoft's minimum hardware requirements for W11.