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Win 11 upgrade workaround?
October 6, 2025 at
04:45 PM
I have legacy bios on one of my PCs - not UEFI.
Does it mean the work around win 11 upgrade should not be done?
Are UEFI, TPM 2.0 or Secure Boot requirements for the workaround Win 11 install?
Does it mean the work around win 11 upgrade should not be done?
Are UEFI, TPM 2.0 or Secure Boot requirements for the workaround Win 11 install?
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I have yet to use it so can't speak from experience. If I were you I'd make an image of my hard drive and then give it a try, knowing I could always revert back to the old image...
Lastly, my opinion only, for home users that are even remotely tech-savvy, the lack of security patches isn't a big deal. Hackers aren't targeting individual residential IP addresses. As long as you're not on the dark web, browsing sites you shouldn't be, downloading torrents, etc., and so long as you have adequate firewall / virus protection, I'd guess you could stay on Windows 10 for another decade with the only repercussions being lack of future support for some hardware and maybe software.
Again, just my opinion. I understand that if a security patch removes a way for a hacker to get into your system via some back door and you don't get that patch, you are indeed vulnerable. I just feel that as a home user, if you have appropriate security in place and appropriate offline backups, it's really not a big deal...
Heck, I only upgraded to Windows 10 a few years ago on a couple of my machines that were running Windows 8 well after support ended...