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The Windows 11 PC Health Watch app is back and now slightly more useful

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Remember that PC Health Tick app Microsoft discharged to help users ascertain if their systems met all the requirements for Windows 11? The one that caused people to interview why their PCs failed the compatibility test even on innovative hardware? Microsoft finished up yanking information technology offline, and like a sho an updated variant is rear, available to download from the Windows 11 landing pageboy.

The app is fairly simple, in this IT quickly audits PCs to see if they sports meeting the minimum system requirements to run Windows 11. Those let in a compatible processor with at any rate ii cores and clocked at 1GHz or quicker, 64GB operating theatre more than of available storage, at to the lowest degree 4GB of RAM, and support for some Invulnerable Boot and Trusted Mental faculty Platform (TPM) 2.0 technologies.

There are many underlying nuances to the requirements. As it pertains to the processor, having at to the lowest degree two cores and operative at 1GHz or higher is not enough, it also has to be a model that is on Microsoft lean of gimbaled CPUs.

For Intel, that includes 8th Gen and newer chips, as well American Samoa a splutter of 7th Gen processors. And for AMD, second contemporaries and newer Ryzen chips progress to the cut (including Ryzen Threadripper), A well arsenic a crowd of Athlon and Epyc processors. If in doubt, check the asunder full list of supported Intel CPUs and full list of supported AMD CPUs.

Along most modern systems, it is the TPM 2.0 requirement that is nearly likely to be the tripping stone, should a PC fail the compatibility test. This is why Microsoft pulled the app offline shortly later on it was released in June—the company acknowledged "it was not fully ready to share the level of contingent or truth you expected from United States on why a Windows 10 PC doesn't meet ascent requirements."

In the original version of the app, if TPM 2.0 was not enabled in the BIOS, the system of rules would fail the test with a message stating, "This processor isn't subsidised for Windows 11. While this Personal computer doesn't meet the system requirements to run Windows 11, you'll keep getting Windows 10 updates."

I initially ran into this on a Rocket Lake PC with a compatible Processor, Intel's Core i9 11900K. But because TPM was not enabled in the BIOS initially (this is not something motherboard makers typically turned along aside default on consumer boards, before now), it failing the test without a sufficient account.

And now? If the TPM 2.0 requirement is what trips up a PC, the app will say so, noting that "TPM 2.0 must glucinium supported and enabled" to pass the check. The updated message also links user to blog situatio explaining things in more detail, and how to enable TPM 2.0 happening their PC.

Information technology'd be precise if the app could differentiate between not having TPM 2.0 capabilities versus the security have simply not glucinium enabled, but I hypothecate that would be a moment more difficult to implement.

At any rat, for those interested, the app is available to everyone again, and not just inside the Windows Insider program, as it had been for the past various weeks. Retributory go to Microsoft's Windows 11 page and scroll pull down to the bottomland section, righteous above the footnotes.

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