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The HP Elitebook 840 G3 machines use Intel G6 processors which do not meet Windows 11 requirements. You need Intel G8 up to be able to install/upgrade Windows 11 normal way. If you wish, you can
Installing Windows 11 on devices that don't meet minimum system requirements
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I understand your issue -- as I have the same situation with an old laptop that meets almost none of the Win11 hardware requirements, and I really wanted to try out Win11 on it but the installer refused.
And while there are workarounds to this, forcing Win11 onto "incompatible" hardware is an "experiment" at best -- not a long-term solution.
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. MS has already done this with "insiders" who were running really old hardware on Windows 11. Their PCs were disabled by a Windows Update.
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.
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