How to install Microsoft Windows 11 Pro on a old Windows 10 computer.
- Feb 3, 2022
- 1 min read
How to enable TPM 2.0 in Windows 11
If you haven't already, now's the time to download Microsoft's PC Health Check app to check if your system is eligible to upgrade to Windows 11. If you're being denied entry, it's worth noting that you may already have TPM 2.0 on your system and you just need to enable it.
To check your TPM version and enable it, press Win+R, then paste tpm.msc in the box, and hit Enter.
In the Trusted Platform Module Management window, check the Specification version. If you have version 2.0 but the Status is telling you it isn't ready, simply click Prepare the TPM under Actions, at the top of the righthand sidebar.
That should enable the TPM almost instantly, and you'll now be ready to install Windows 11 or upgrade from your Windows Update menu.
As long as the version showing is TPM 1.2 you can follow the steps below to get Windows 11 working anyway—and thankfully that will cover a lot more machines than TPM 2.0 does.
A simple tweak to bypass Windows 11's TPM 2.0 requirement
While the first unofficial TPM bypasses involved downloading software from Github, the one Microsoft itself dished out is fairly simple. Just press Windows+R, and type regedit to get the Registry Editor up.
From there, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup from the top bar, and right-click the main panel, selecting create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value.
You need to create The MoSetup folder after the setup. Then inside the MOsetup folder you create the Dword an add the value to 1.
Call it AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU and set its value to 1.
Simple. Congratulations: you're now eligible for the Windows 11 upgrade.
Author Nerdcore Computers
