Microsoft Offers TPM 2.0 Bypass to Install Windows 11 on Unsupported PC

For months, Microsoft has been telling customers that Windows 11 requires your PC to have a special security chip called TPM 2.0—but you can actually skirt the restriction. Ironically, the company itself posted official guidance on its website detailing how to circumvent the TPM 2.0 requirement.

- MICHAEL KAN

The process involves taking your Windows 10 machine and changing the registry key values in the OS to ignore the check for TPM 2.0. But the bypass applies only to PCs that have at least TPM 1.2, which has to be enabled. This can usually be done by going into the machine’s BIOS settings on startup.