Windows 11 compatibility

[ShrewsburyChap]

Hi,

I have a HP Pavilion and wanted to know if this is compatible with Windows 11. I ran the PC Health check and it says  - this PC does not meet the requirements to run Windows 11.

Anyone else have got this issue and do you know how to fix this please.

Thanks in advance !

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

I recommend you take a look at this link and see where your PC falls short.

Windows 11 Specifications - Microsoft

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, again:

I did find this document regarding hard and soft floor requirements, so we are just going to have to wait and see what happens when we actually try to upgrade older PC's to W11...

Compatibility for Windows 11- Compatibility Cookbook | Microsoft Docs

According to the above document, you may be able to upgrade to W11 as long as your PC meets the hard floor requirements.

PS:  I noticed that Microsoft edited the above article and removed this information that it used to contain.

Hard Floor:

• CPU: Core >= 2 and Speed >= 1 GHz
• System Memory: TotalPhysicalRam >= 4 GB
• Storage: 64 GB
• Security: TPM Version >= 1.2 and SecureBootCapable = True
• Smode: Smode is false, or Smode is true and C_ossku in (0x65, 0x64, 0x63, 0x6D, 0x6F, 0x73, 0x74, 0x71)

Soft Floor:

• Security: TPMVersion >= 2.0
• CPU Generation

[Groomit_Space]

For computers powered by AMD processors, some Ryzen 3, 5, 7, and Threadripper chips dating from 2018 will work, as will EPYC chips from 2019. ARM chips are supported by Windows 11 if running a Qualcomm Snapdragon 850, 7c, 8c, 8cx, first and second-generation, or Microsoft's SQ1 and SQ2 processors.

Compared to the requirements for Windows 10, this might seem restrictive. The current version only requires a 32-bit processor, one gigabyte of RAM, 16-gigabytes of storage, and DirectX 9. This means many users might need to upgrade components, if not move to a whole new computer to be able to install Windows 11