Microsoft taking down PC Health Check app in response to Windows 11 confusion

Microsoft taking down PC Health Cheque app in response to Windows 11 confusion

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The Windows 11 requirements confusion continues. Aye, while many look to download the first Windows 11 Insider Release, Microsoft merely removed one of the primal tools people were using to come across if they could update.

In a blog mail service attribute to The Windows Squad, information technology was revealed that the PC Health Cheque app is going away — but only temporarily (we should note that the app was all the same bachelor to download at the fourth dimension of publishing). Also, interestingly enough, Microsoft best-selling that it may change the list of processors that support Windows 11.

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The PC Health Check app, in the team's own words, "was not fully prepared to share the level of detail or accuracy you lot expected from us on why a Windows 10 PC doesn't run across upgrade requirements."

As for when information technology's coming dorsum? The mail service notes that "We volition get it dorsum online in preparation for general availability this fall," which sounds like it will be available prior to September. Microsoft has stated that Windows 11 will come out in holiday of 2021, but according to The Verge, Microsoft is hinting at an October xx release day.

In that app's absence, Microsoft is telling folks to bank check out the official organization requirements folio, which lists the many requirements. These include some things users may non know how to check on their own, such every bit if their arrangement firmware is "UEFI, Secure Kick capable" and if they have a TPM two.0 chip or not. Bank check out our guide to seeing if your system has a TPM fleck.

Windows xi may support more systems

The chat surrounding what PCs tin can run Windows 11 is besides based on a very specific fix of CPUs. In the above blog postal service, Microsoft declared that it had three guiding principles for Windows eleven: security, reliability and compatibility.

For case, Microsoft is aiming for a standard that it says "has been shown to reduce malware by 60% on tested devices," which is part of why they demand a TPM and secure boot. And the picky standards for supported CPUs is meant to push everyone to hardware that has "adopted the news Windows Driver model," the company will exist working towards a much-less crash-prone feel.

And meeting those iii standards isn't possible, information technology explained, on all systems. Intel 8th generation chips, AMD Zen 2 and Qualcomm 7 and 8 Series-based systems will support Windows xi, according to the mail service.

What'south upward in the air, though, is if Intel 7th generation and AMD Zen 1-based systems can also run Windows eleven well enough for Microsoft'due south standards. The company says it volition "test to identify devices" running on those chips that can perform well on Windows 11. This will happen, in office, via allowing Windows Insiders to install Windows 11 on Intel seventh Gen-based systems, and work with partner OEMS.

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