Just insert it, enter the UEFI (BIOS) to change the boot device to the USB drive, and follow the installer's prompts. Best of all, this solution is permanently yours—it'll keep working so long as ...

Click the Accept and install button, and your Windows 10 PC will be upgraded to Windows 11. You should be able to use your PC during the download and installation. When the process is finished, ...

How to install Windows 11 with the Microsoft method? Even if it strongly advises against it, the editor proposes a solution to install Windows 11 on a PC without the TPM 2.0 module on its support ...

Your PC does not meet the new system requirements set by Microsoft but you badly want to upgrade to Windows 11 because your current Windows OS is already slow. It's ...

One of the requirements to run Windows 11 is your PC is must be equipped with a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 2.0 security chip, and it also has to be enabled in the ...

Windows 11 can be run on unsupported PCs, but Microsoft isn't keen on you doing this and has recently doubled-down on a policy of shaming systems that don't meet the official spec requirements. As you ...

Windows 11 brings tons of great features to play with, but there is no hiding the fact that the operating system left a lot of PCs in the dust with its controversial minimum system requirements.

With Windows 10 support due to end next October, Microsoft really wants you to upgrade to Windows 11. But it doesn't want you to run its latest OS on unsupported hardware and now it's playing hardball ...

A Windows 11 update has accidentally rolled out to unsupported devices, raising questions over the operating system's strict TPM requirements. Dubbed ' Sun Valley 2', the first major OS was ...

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There's something wrong with your machine or setup then, because h.264 is trivial for Sandy Bridge or later CPUs to decode in software, even disregarding Quick Sync. A Haswell CPU can decode HD AV1 ...

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