Originally Posted by MountainSide
Long story short and after many tricks, hacks and endless reverts back from a failed WIN11 install back to WIN 10, there is a way to do this. It involves a bit of registry hacks and seemingly may have to be done a few times to get it to work, but it can be done! Here is the procedure I followed: https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-upgrade-your-incompatible-windows-10-pc-to-windows-11-for-free/
I can't say whether or not that's a good idea, only reiterate my (slightly different) caveat from some time ago:
Originally Posted by Gordon Scott
... and another caution ...
Originally Posted by Gordon Scott
My old Win7 was installing updates OK for a long time, then suddenly stopped on a major update at 95% installing and rolling back every few days, with just an obscure error number that barely helped. Eventually, after 18 months, I heard that it was related to that message (possibly paraphrased) "This CPU was designed for a older version of Windows". The whole business was a real PITA.
BTW, the reason I had that situation was because I'd done that old trick of moving (a clone of) the hard drive from the old machine onto a new machine, successfully avoiding all the countless hours of re-installations, but paying the time and effort many times over with the above install-rollback cycles.
It had been running just find for a couple of years.

I'd not say "don't do it", but I would caution that there could be issues in the future and they could be quite obscure.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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