Re: Windows 11 now on all my laptops

On Jul 10, 2025 at 8:18:07 AM EDT, "Tom Elam" <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> wrote:

My Dell came with Windows 11. My other 2, 7 and 8 year old HP's, did
not. I have been putting off doing the free update hoping that Microsoft
would extend full W10 support. Apparently not happening. So this week I
finally did the W10-W11 update to both.
 
Took about 2 hours each, most of which was un-monitored. Both had no
issues other than it took a while to download the ISO and process the
update. Just answered a few questions, downloaded the ISO file from
Microsoft, answered a few more questions, and went about my business.
All documents and apps were retained and seem to work fine. Two more
perfectly good laptops saved from the landfill, for now.

Not that anyone here cares, but it is absurdly easy to install Windows 11 on
"unsupported" hardware.  I have now installed 24H2 on 6 tablets/2 in 1s, 2 of
which were released in 2014 with Windows 8.1.  All are running fine.  All are
receiving updates. All were installed as updates to Windows 10 and everything
was retained.  No cost to me for "new" Windows 11 licenses or anything.

The only hardware they are missing is the TPM 2.0. Four are i5 CPUs (6th gen)
with 8 GB RAM and 256GB SSDs. The other 2 from 2014 are Dell Venue 11 Pros
with a Core M-5Y71 CPU, 8GB RAM and 256 GB SSD.

Next up is a 12 year old laptop with a 4th gen i7 (4 cores and hyperthreaded
so 8 threads) 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD.