Win 10 >>> Win 11

Pudsey Bear said:
Please stop Trev, as a person I like and respect you but it's the same post day in and day out it has gone beyond boring, you stick to what you like to use, but allow us the same priveledge, I put you on ignore over a year ago due to this constant barage of Linux promotion, you also keep telling us you have this and that but I've yet to see any of it.

Please, just give it a rest, unless winding people up is your other hobby, in which case fill your boots.
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Ok pudsey just for you, my desktop, stuff in loft and red win 11 gammer watercooled for son, cost a packet but given to me for services rendered.
Hope this keeps you happy big ears, its rude to blank a genous.my pc table.jpgred win 11 game pc.jpgmore pc crap.jpgmy loft b.jpgmy loft c.jpg
 
I just realised I can ignore a certain members posts…. What a refreshing relief!

Anyway over the holiday I dug out an old PC for one of my sons, it had windows 11 21H2 on it which was reporting as end of life

FYI each w11 release has a lifecycle of 2 years iirc.

So as the automatic feature update wasn’t being offered via windows update I downloaded and tried to install the latest 24h2 iso manually to bring the PC fully up to date.

It would not install, recently MS have introduce a couple of new processor instruction set requirements that are absolutely incompatible with the ageing cpu in this particular PC.

Unlike the previous requirements of cpu and tpm there isn’t any workaround either

For this machine I could only go up to the previous 23h2 release so downloaded that iso and installed it instead
It got rid of the eol warning but 23h2 will expire in autumn 2025.

Fortunately most of these now very ageing computers even if not compatible with the latest version of W11 will run Linux without any problems and for 99% of most people’s daily computing needs Linux is perfectly adequate.

There’s even a cracking version of a Debian based Linux Mint that works perfectly ok on even older x86 32 bit machines!
 
CriftinsCampers said:
I just realised I can ignore a certain members posts…. What a refreshing relief!

Anyway over the holiday I dug out an old PC for one of my sons, it had windows 11 21H2 on it which was reporting as end of life

FYI each w11 release has a lifecycle of 2 years iirc.

So as the automatic feature update wasn’t being offered via windows update I downloaded and tried to install the latest 24h2 iso manually to bring the PC fully up to date.

It would not install, recently MS have introduce a couple of new processor instruction set requirements that are absolutely incompatible with the ageing cpu in this particular PC.

Unlike the previous requirements of cpu and tpm there isn’t any workaround either

For this machine I could only go up to the previous 23h2 release so downloaded that iso and installed it instead
It got rid of the eol warning but 23h2 will expire in autumn 2025.

Fortunately most of these now very ageing computers even if not compatible with the latest version of W11 will run Linux without any problems and for 99% of most people’s daily computing needs Linux is perfectly adequate.

There’s even a cracking version of a Debian based Linux Mint that works perfectly ok on even older x86 32 bit machines!
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Another good chap on here with common sense, i like mint or lite, it does require a bit of tidy work once installed but has a 5 year cycle, but you can use it after that and still gets updates.lite a.jpg
 
I thought I'd check to see why I can't upgrade on this laptop.

Just the CPU which I can't do much about.


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Am I missing something ???

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Pudsey Bear said:
I thought I'd check to see why I can't upgrade on this laptop.

Just the CPU which I can't do much about.

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This is how I do a clean install on much older and incompatible machines than yours

Download the latest version of W11 as an ISO file manually or via using the standard microsoft media creation tool.
I then use a brilliant and very popular tool called Rufus which writes the ISO to a USB stick (https://rufus.ie/en/)
Then after clicking start and before it begins writing to the USB stick the tool offers these options the top one is the minimum that is needed

Rufus by default uses GPT as the Partition scheme so if the usb does not boot or I know the machine is so old it does not use GPT then I select MBR

Obviously for an upgrade you would not boot off the USB but instead run setup.exe from the USB and chose the option to keep apps and files etc.

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CriftinsCampers said:
This is how I do it on much older and incompatible machines than yours

Download the latest version of W11 as an ISO file manually or via using the standard microsoft media creation tool.
I then use a brilliant and very popular tool called Rufus which writes the ISO to a USB stick (https://rufus.ie/en/)
Then after clicking start and before it begins writing to the USB stick the tool offers these options the top one is the minimum that is needed

Rufus by default uses GPT as the Partition scheme so if the usb does not boot or I know the machine is so old it does not use GPT then I select MBR

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This is me tha knows, I am seriously crap at IT, so I don't think that is going to happen anytime soon sadly but I thank you.

BUT!! surely my CPU is compatible, all the other stuff passes.
 
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