Welcome to this quick guide where I'm going
to show you how you can use the command prompt to upgrade from Windows 10 to
Windows 11 on unsupported hardware. And if you get any value out of this video,
please click the like button and subscribe to the channel. But to get started with the guide. As you can see here, I've got
Windows 10 running on my laptop. And if I try and run the Windows 11 setup,
I get this message that says it doesn't meet the Windows 11 system requirements. And I've got all of these issues. The processor isn't supported. TPM 2.0 isn't supported. And Secure Boot isn't supported. Now I have another guide on this channel that
shows you how to upgrade to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware using Rufus. And I'll also link that at the end of this video. But there's a new and easy way that you can upgrade from Windows 10 to
Windows 11 on unsupported hardware. And I'm going to show you
how to do that in this video. So I'm just going to cancel this setup. And the first thing that you'll
need is the Windows 11 ISO file. And to download that, you need to go to
the Microsoft Software Downloads page. And you can get it by going to this link. But I'll also link this and any
other resources in my written guide. And you can find that linked in
the description of this video. But you can go to this web page. And it's going to take you to
the download Windows 11 page. And once you're on this page, you need to
scroll all the way down until you get to the disk image option. Then you need to click on this drop down and
select the Windows 11 Multi Edition ISO and then click on Download Now. Now next you'll need to
select your product language. And this is very important. The computer that you're trying to upgrade,
you need to go to that PC and then you need to do a search on it and type in the word region. So you can go to the region settings. If you click on that, it's going to
tell you what your region is set to. But the most important setting you need to
have a look at here is this regional format. And you need to check what's
selected in this drop down menu. For me, it's English United States. You need to check what you have selected there. And then with that in mind, you need
to choose the language on this list. So for me, it's English United States. And this is very important because it's going
to determine if you'll be able to keep all of your files and apps when
upgrading to Windows 11. So I'm going to select English
US and then click on Confirm. And then you'll get this download button. And if you click on that, it's going to start
downloading the Windows 11 ISO file to your computer. Now, I already have it downloaded. So I'm just going to cancel
this and close the browser. But once your ISO file has finished downloading,
you can right click on it and then you can mount it. If you do get this warning, just click on Open. And then it's going to mount that ISO
image and you'll see all of these files. Now next, what you need to do is click on
the top of this window and then drag it to the side of the screen so you can make it
full that part of the screen and then hold down left shift on your keyboard and click on
the file explorer icon because that's going to open up a new file explorer window. Now take this file explorer window, click
and drag it and put it in the other corner of the screen or the other edge of the screen. And it's going to fill that part of the screen. Now in this window, go to this
PC, then go to your C drive. And then on the C drive, create a new folder
by right clicking, then selecting new and then folder and then call this folder Win11
and then press enter and then open that folder and then now select all of these files
that you have on the ISO file by either clicking and dragging and selecting them all or
just pressing Ctrl and A on your keyboard. So you can select all of these files, then
right click on any one of them and drag it over to this side of the screen into the Win11
folder, let go and then click on copy here because you need to copy all of those files
to this Win11 folder that you created on the C drive. So once these files from the ISO file is finished
copying to your Win11 folder in this left window, you can click on this PC, then you
can find the ISO file that's mounted and then you can right click on it and then click
on eject so you can eject that ISO file and then you can close this window. And now you can keep this window open. It doesn't really matter. But what you need to do next is you need to do
a search for CMD so you can find the command prompt and then click on run as administrator. And then once you have the command prompt
open, you need to type the following command. Now that command is C:\Win11 And it is case sensitive, as it needs to be
the folder that you have on your C drive. So as you can see there, it's C:\Win11 And then next, you need to type \setup.exe,
because we're going to launch this setup.exe file, then press space /product server. Now, like I mentioned before, I'm also going
to create a written guide for this video. And you can find a link to that
in the description of this video. And I'll also include this
command in my written guide. But once you have this, you can press enter. And it's going to launch
the windows 11 setup wizard. And the first thing you'll notice here is it
says it's going to install Windows Server, but it's not going to install Windows Server. It's just going to upgrade the edition
of Windows that you currently have. So for me, if I right click on the
start button and then go to system. On this computer, I have Windows 10 Pro. So it's going to install Windows 11 Pro. If you have Windows 10 Home, it'll
be upgraded to Windows 11 Home. So to continue, click on this option that
says change how setup downloads updates, and then click on not right now and also
make sure that this box is unchecked. Then click on next. It's going to do the checks on your PC
to see if your PC supports Windows 11. And hopefully it's going to skip all of that. And you'll see this screen,
you can just click on accept. And next, you'll need to choose what to keep. If you keep your files, settings and apps,
that's going to keep everything and you won't lose anything during the upgrade. If you keep your personal files only, it's
going to uninstall any apps that you currently have installed on your Windows 10 installation. But it'll keep your files like your
documents and pictures and so on. And if you choose to keep nothing, your computer
will be completely formatted in the process and you'll lose all of your files and apps. I'm going to choose the setting to
keep my files, settings and apps. And like I mentioned earlier in the video,
if you don't have these settings, it means you didn't select the correct language
when downloading the Windows 11 ISO file. But once you're happy with
this, just click on next. It's going to do some of the last checks. And then once the setup is done with all of
its checks, you'll see this screen and then you can just click on install. And it's going to start installing
Windows 11 on your computer. And this process can take anywhere from
around 30 minutes to more than an hour. It all depends on if you have
an SSD or HDD in your computer. But I'm just going to wait for this to finish
and then once we're on Windows 11, we can continue with the guide. Once the upgrade is complete, you'll be seeing
this screen and you'll be on Windows 11. And just to show you that this is still the
same unsupported machine, I'm going to do a search for system info and we'll
launch the system information app. And if I ever look at this list, you can see
that the secure boot state is unsupported. But also if I run tpm.msc, you'll see that
a compatible TPM module cannot be found. So this is still the same computer. And if I right click on the start button and
then go to system and I scroll down to the version, you'll see that this
is Windows 11 version 23H2. Now once this upgrade is complete, I
recommend that you go down to Windows update. And first, just pause the updates for one week. This is just so that if there is any issues
or any leftover updates from your Windows 10 installation, it won't interfere
with the Windows 11 updates. And once you've paused it, just click on resume
updates and also click on the slider that says get the latest updates
as soon as they're available. After that, you should see some updates that
are available for your computer and I recommend that you go ahead and you download and install
all of these updates so you can get access to the new features in Windows 11 23H2 and
that was also released in the Moment 4 update. But I hope this guide has been helpful in
getting you to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware. Please like the video and
I'll see you in the next one.
