Windows 11 for 7th generation Intel

North_Cloud These posts you are responding to are ANCIENT by IT standards. This is just ignorance and if you get hacked or have issues after this October, you have no one to blame but yourself.

In the past, when I wrote my first post in this forum, I had non-qualified machines running Win 11 Pro. And I have installed Win 11 Pro on systems as old Intel gen 2. And yes there are ISSUES, you just have to a good tech to spot them.

A few months ago, I sold off all these non-qualified computers as cheap rebuilds for lower income people.  However, I kept a select few that do menial monitoring of crypto charts. More important, I keep them to see if they will choke on the OS update coming this October.

Here are a half dozen reasons NOT to install Win 11 on a PC older than gen 8. And in my EXPERT opinion, as a tech of 35 years... and if your PC is used for something MORE than web surfing, you should visit Amazon to buy an entry level ASRock12th gen board, i5-12400f, 16g DDR4 RAM for maybe an outlay of $ 250... and call it a day.

- Last month MS began writing code to block to our clever OS workarounds

- Win 11 24H2, due this October may reject non-compliant hardware for updates

- Win 10 expires Oct 2025, then MS will really put down the hammer.

- Any board older than Intel gen 10 (or AMD form that time) hobbles gaming

- On legacy boards, bios updates to stop hackers could be ignored by your OEM

- If your OS is not current, MS updates that block hackers might be passed over

- The newer your tech, the faster the NVMe, faster PCIe bus and other goodies

There is no excuse for anyone who has the money to NOT upgrade their hardware or start over. Every office should be built on Intel Gen 12 or higher. Every home user who uses their PC for at least email, MS Office and surfing should be on Intel Gen 10 and higher.