Windows 11 for 7th generation Intel

Hey! Thanks for your loyalty to this thread. Here is what I learned since we last spoke.

- Patch Tuesday came and went last week; all my PCs with Win 11 updated to .856
- All my 'non-qualified' Win 11 systems also updated to .856
- I have since done 6 non-qualified computers...

- One even older than yours; i5 Gen 2 on Gen 3 Mobo (Dell 9010 SFF)
- All systems run faster than when they had Win 10

I do have some suspicions. For example, when Win 11 22H2 comes out early October. (That's only in 1.5 months.)

After the 22H2 rollout, systems will randomly get a notice to upgrade the new version of Win 11. One of the big differences is that THIS version will run Android apps on the desktop.

But what about non-qualified systems running Win 11? It is possible the system will undergo another CPU and TPM version check from the cloud verify?

And if so, three things might happen. One is that the version check does not run because it is already a verified system and has Win 11. Then it upgrades to the new version without incident. The second is that it detects the non-qualifiers and refuses to install 22H2. And the third is that the entire system deactivates and you get the classic watermark on the desktop that the system is not activated.

I started hunting down other professionals writing articles about Win 11, because it seems I am helping people with this about five times a week and by October I might have 50 or so people hanging on the edge about what will happen.