The latest Insider Build of Windows 11 has patched the '/product server' workaround that let old CPUs easily bypass the system requirements check.
With just a little more than a year left before Windows 10 hits its end-of-life, Microsoft has been busy encouraging people to upgrade to Windows 11 . One of the hurdles with getting PCs upgraded to Windows 11 , though, are the hardware requirements — and now they’re cracked down on harder.
Recommended Videos The patch was noticed by X user Bob Pony, and while it’s only in an Insider build at the moment, it will likely be fully rolled out sometime soon. Over the past few years, there have been multiple ways to get Windows 11 running on such machines, but Microsoft has been slowly but surely cutting them off one by one. This latest patch could prove troublesome for a lot of people since it’s such a simple and commonly used workaround — just one extra argument added to the setup execute file and you’re set.
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