
For the most part, though, the process is similar enough across machines that you should be able to use the instructions as a guide and, where your computer differs, still identify the equivalent menu or label in your own system. That's because Windows machines vary so much that it's not feasible to cover all the possible ways to enable TPM and Secure Boot across every device. Keep in mind that these instructions are written as broadly as possible.If you are missing the hardware or firmware necessary for Windows 11, the instructions below won't help - you'll need to buy a new device to run the OS.

Microsoft confirmed there are four types of problems that might have given you a "This PC can't run Windows 11" error message if you used its PC Health Check tool.TCG is a computer industry consortium that created the original TPM standard, which was later adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and subsequently named ISO/IEC 11889. TPM implementations are typically designed to meet an international standard created by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). While the use of TPM technology has been part of enterprise IT for more than a decade, this is one of the first instances of Microsoft requiring its use for everyone, including for small and medium-sized businesses and consumers.


They store a variety of sensitive information-such as user credentials, passwords, fingerprints, certificates, encryption keys, or other important consumer documentation-behind a hardware barrier to keep it safe from external attacks. TPMs use cryptography to help securely store essential and critical information on PCs to enable platform authentication.

One hardware-based security requirement is that all PCs running Windows 11 must have TPM 2.0 to run the operating system.Ī TPM, or a trusted platform module, is a physical or embedded security technology (microcontroller) that resides on a computer’s motherboard or in its processor. Businesses and consumers upgrading to Windows 11 will now benefit from new hardware-based security requirements that make their PCs more secure.
