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Jeronimo2440
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Oct 04, 2021

The i7-7700K meet the minimun requierments to run Win11. But its not suported, Why?

Hi, I have an i7-7700K. This CPU have TPM 2.0, It's compatible with Secure Boot, it have 4 core up to 4.2 GHz. It also is 64bit.  I don't know why this CPU is not supported by Microsoft to install W...
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Immu7795
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Jun 08, 2022
No I did not do any modification to the registry. No force method, just out of the blue I got the Windows feature update icon in the taskbar, clicking on that asked me I want to update to Windows 11, Which I did and now on Windows11 22h2
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yowatta
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Jun 29, 2022
The same thing has happened here in Japan. I've got self-build PC using i7-7700k, and had been running it on W10. After W11 was released, Windows updates had been kept saying your PC is not W11 upgradable. On June 8, however, all of a sudden, a message came saying your PC is now W11 upgradable. From the windows updates panel, I downloaded the upgrade package and installed it. It's been working just fine. I wondered how it happened and net searched to find this loong exchange of messages. I did not read them all, skipped the middle, and came down to your message which is exactly the same with mine. Does this mean Microsoft had changed their mind?
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    yowatta
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    Jul 05, 2022
    New problem?
    On this same PC, I've got several shortcut icons of NAS which were carried over from W10 level. All of them have been working fine. Today, I happened to erroneously delete one of them. I tried to recover it: I created shortcut icon in higher folder, then tried to drug and drop it on the desktop. To my surprise, the system came back with an error, '0x80070026: Reached the end of the file'. What has happened ?! It's only 1.7KB.
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    yowatta
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    Jul 01, 2022
    We are lucky guys. There are unlucky guys, like Chris1231, out there. MS should open up W11 to these unlucky guys who missed the 1-2 days window. Rich1000sf is rightly making the point on his June 29 post.
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    Chris1231
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    Jun 30, 2022

    Immu7795  I'm still getting the "This PC doesn't currently meet the minimum system requirements to run Windows 11" crud on all four (4) of my i7-7700K boxes - all have 32 GB's and TPM 2  - is there anything I need to change?

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    Immu7795
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    Jun 30, 2022

    yowatta  Yep, it is during the 1-2 days period when Microsoft offered Windows 11 Upgrade to i7 7700k, Our PC supports every other requirement, and Motherboard supports TMP 2.0 too, I have been getting regular updates, so no need to worry, keep using Windows 11.

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    yowatta
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    Jun 29, 2022

    rich1000sf 

    I’ve checked the Update History of my PC and confirmed;

    1. W11 version 22H2 was successfully installed on 6/8/22
    2. 2022-06 x64 base system W11 Ver 22H2  Quality cumm-update KB5014688 was successfully installed on 6/16/22
    3. All other updates (driver/definition/other) have been installed as well

    So, it seems MS has kept my PC updating. I've double checked that i7-7700k is the cpu of my PC.

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    rich1000sf
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    Jun 29, 2022

    yowattaApparently Microsoft had a mistake where they let this processor get W11 over just 1-2 days and you must have hit that period. It is closed down again and this processor isn't allowed W11. I don't know what they will do about you already having installed it - if they will support that in the future. However, if they do support your use of it, it would make sense for them to open it up to all users with that processor.