Originally Posted by MarioD
Originally Posted by Gordon Scott
Mike, what do you mean by "non-compliant hardware" please?

Gordon there is a workaround that will let you load Windows 11 onto a computer that doesn't have the hardware necessary to actually run Win 11. It can be done but is not supported by MS and most computer experts say don't do it.

https://www.howtogeek.com/759925/how-to-install-windows-11-on-an-unsupported-pc/
I updated this PC's motherboard some years back and just put in the old hard drives. It ran absolutely fine except for occasional pop-up 'nags' from the OS that "this PC was made for a newer version of Windows", which I just closed.
A couple of years later I accidentally deleted Windows (yes, it was an accident that time) and went to reinstall. I spent weeks trying to do that and it failed again and again with some Windows numerical error, which seemed to have many and varied possible causes, all of which I could either dismiss or I tried to resolve. Eventually, one of the web-search hits suggested it was refusing to install because "The CPU was made for a newer version of Windows". I later learned that I could just install Win10 and use the Win7 licence ... which worked. My new CPU was, however, not deemed suitable for Win11, so I later upgraded the CPU again. AFAICS, this is essentially a scam. Linux runs just fine on almost any platform one tries (Acer laptops are odd).

I may sometime try the hack, but for now I'm still aggrieved about weeks of work trying to get Win7 installed where it previously rqn fine.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11
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