My PC mini Pavilion i5-5200U,does not have TPM 2.0, so it does not support windows 11 Is there any s

[attai]

My PC mini Pavilion i5-5200U,does not have TPM 2.0, so it does not support windows 11

Is there any solution?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

There is no solution, but there is a workaround...

If you want to try out W11 on your PC, it is relatively easy to do...

I would make a system image of your current W10 installation prior to updating to W11, so you can easily reinstall W10 in the future.  I used the free Macrium Reflect software to do that, under the Backup at Home section. 

Along with the system image, make sure you create the bootable DVD or USB rescue drive you boot from to access the system image stored on your portable hard drive.

Macrium Software | Reflect Free Edition

First make this registry change...

https://www.hellpc.net/how-to-bypass-tpm-and-cpu-requirements-windows-11-upgrade-unsupported-pc/

Then download the Windows 11 ISO file (3rd option), not the W11 installation assistant.

Download Windows 11 (microsoft.com)

Then open the file with Windows explorer, and click on the setup application.

To do that, right click on the ISO file and select 'Open With' and select Windows Explorer.

See the screenshot...this is what you will see when you open the file with Windows Explorer.

After you double click to run the setup application, you will get this window, and you can now upgrade to W11.

You just have to accept the agreement that comes up during the upgrade process about your PC not meeting the requirements, etc., etc..

My unsupported W11 PC's got all of the W11 updates. 

I have upgraded 5 of them to W11 and they seem to run a little better on W11 than they did on W10.

However, I don't know how long they will continue to get all of the updates, or what will happen when the new build of W11 comes out next year in October.

[itsmyname]

@attai -- Is there any solution?

One work-around is to keep using Windows 10 until its "sunset" in Fall-2025.

At that point, your computer will be an "antique", and you will need to purchase a brand-new computer.

Maybe, "Santa" may have a nice XMAS present for you.   🙂

Who knows, by 2025, what sort of computer will be common -- integrated into your baseball cap, with a video-screen integrated into your prescription eye-wear? Eye-movement tracking, instead of moving a mouse? Blink to "click"? Double-blink in a virtual grocery store, to purchase what you are seeing? Cross your eyes to shutdown the computer? 

[WAWood]

@attai 

Understand -- as I have the same situation with an old laptop that meets almost none of the Win11 hardware requirements.

But -- we're living on "borrowed time" -- let me explain ...

MS has relented, for now, in enforcing Win11 hardware requirements -- but they already have the code to check hardware because they provide that as a downloadable utility.  It would take little effort to package that as a Security Update, push it to the PCs, and after a reboot, we get messages that our PCs are disabled and we have to reinstall Win10 from scratch to get a working PC back.

I'm OK because I have a full image backup of the laptop running Windows 10 -- which would take me 5 minutes to restore. Most folks don't even know what that means and will end up with a nonworking PC -- and no simple way to restore it.

So, enjoy it while you can -- but do not expect it to last long.