Microsoft Has Announced In A Post On Its Windows Blog That It Supports 10 Intel 7th Generation Processors From Windows 11 And The Possibility Of Installing Windows 11 On Older Processors.
Older Processors, With the release of the new build of Windows 11, Microsoft unveiled its new program to install this operating system on older computers. With the introduction of Windows 11 for the first time since Windows 7, the Redmondians changed the minimum hardware specifications for running this operating system, causing a negative wave among users; Because many people can not upgrade their operating system to Windows 11.
While the minimum amount of RAM and memory for Windows 11 has increased, most changes include making it mandatory to use TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot and requiring at least the eighth-generation processor Intel and AMD Zen 2 or Qualcomm 7 8 series and newer. A few days after the user protests, Microsoft announced that Intel’s seventh-generation processors and the first-generation AMD Zen processors would reconsider.
Microsoft officially announced the results of its review yesterday, and it almost still adheres to its past. Microsoft says that after working with AMD and re-examining the first generation of AMD Zen processors, it has concluded that it is impossible to support these processors, and Windows 11 will not officially support the first generation of AMD Zen processors.
However, there have been minor changes to Intel’s seventh-generation processors. In total, Microsoft has added 10 seventh-generation Intel processors to its list of supported processors from Windows 11, which you can see below:
- Intel Core i5-7640X
- Intel Core i7-7740X
- Intel Core i7-7800X
- Intel Core i7-7820HQ
- Intel Core i7-7820X
- Intel Core i7-7900X
- Intel Core i7-7920X
- Intel Core i9-7940X
- Intel Core i9-7960X
- Intel Core i9-7980XE
Microsoft says it will add more Intel Xeon and W-Series processors to support Windows 11 in the future; It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post.
Not surprisingly, Microsoft finally decided to officially approve a small list of Intel 7th generation processors to install Windows 11. For example, the Surface Studio 2 was not officially upgraded to Windows 11 until support for the Core i7-7820HQ processor adds, undoubtedly a big negative score for the Surface brand.
Ability to install Windows 11 on older processors using the ISO file
A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that users of older processors could install Windows 11 through an ISO file or Media Creation Tool without checking their processor, But that is not the whole story, and Microsoft has set limits on this. Microsoft says that Windows 11 checks the processor model during installation, But the computer must support TPM 1.2 and have at least 64 GB of storage and 4 GB of RAM, and a 64-bit dual-core processor.
However, this is not the whole story. According to Microsoft, computers upgraded to Windows 11 in this way will not be able to receive new updates through the Windows 11 Update section. If necessary, they will have to download and install new updates from the Microsoft site manually. For this reason, Microsoft does not recommend that users use this method to install Windows 11 on older computers.
Release of the new version of PC Health Checks with more details.
The initial version of PC Health Check software, released to check if Windows 11 was running on your computer, did not have a good design and provided much information about why your computer did not support Windows 11. Since the release of the initial version of the program, Microsoft has asked Windows Insider users to send their comments to Microsoft to improve the program.
Summarizing these views, Microsoft has made the new version of PC Health Check available to Windows Insider users. In this version, users will see a more complete and clear explanation and understand exactly why their computer does not support Windows 11. For example, if Secure Boot is disabled on your computer, it will display a yellow flag next to it saying this PC must support Secure Boot. Also, a link to learn how to activate Secure Boot is provided to the user. This version of PC Health Check is currently available to Windows Insider users and will be available to all users shortly.
Finally, Microsoft points out that according to their research, installing Windows 11 on computers that do not have the minimum hardware requirements has increased the Windows kernel crash by 52%. Computers running Windows 11 require up to 99.8% without crashes. Microsoft says one of the company’s goals in creating at least some new hardware to install Windows 11 is to increase Windows security against cyber attacks.