said by takeahike:If you remember my telling you my Windows 10 has an upgrade problem--it gives an error around 55% of the second stage and quits when trying to upgrade to 1903 or a later version. Basically I'm stuck running 1803 and will remain there unless I go through all the hassle of formatting and reinstalling all applications and recovering all my data, something I'm hardly in the mood to do.
You may have to eventually anyways. Besides, it isn't such a bad thing to do a re-install of your OS every 3 years or so. Everything clean, all the old apps you rarely used anyways out of the way, a fresh system on SSD boots up in 15 seconds, even on your hardware.
You will likely be facing this choice sooner rather than later. When Windows 11 on your configuration becomes unsupported and no updates are supplied to it, would you not rather run a fully updated Windows 10?
Also, if you cannot upgrade any versions of Windows 10, something is wrong with your system. Perhaps a fresh install isn't just a good idea from time to time, but it may actually fix things.
This is another reason I want to go to Windows 11 if I can be granted the "generous" opportunity to keep it up to date. I guess we'll have to see what the powers that be at Microsoft decide will be their support decisions come next month.
You can keep Windows 10 and Windows 11 up to date. Just not Windows 11 on 8 year old hardware. I know you do not agree with this, but that is the way it is. If your hardware can do TPM 2.0, great! Windows 11 it is. If it cannot, you stay with Windows 10.
I would think that there will be an option to download an .iso come October 5th instead of just an option to upgrade directly from the server. Wouldn't you think so because of the apparent option to install the operating system on some unsupported systems that's supposed to be within the Media Creation Tool?
There will certainly be ISO files. My Volume Licensing Subscription delivers ISO files for every Windows release that has happened, from 1507 all the way up to 21H1 and soon 21H2. If not that, then the Media Creation Tool can create an ISO for you. I expect that to be the same with Windows 11.
The option to install on unsupported hardware and why it exists has already been explained by me, but it is not meant for production systems.
With you, it seems to be "Must have Windows 11 regardless of the cost, EXCEPT the cost of hardware". You aren't going to listen to the advice of not installing Windows 11 on 8 year old, unsupported hardware. I think only my wife is more stubborn than you.
You keep coming back to ISO's and upgrades, and possibly hacking updates with third party tools.... it is almost like you are so blinded by the new shiny of Windows 11 that going back to Windows 10 is the lesser of the two options, regardless of the unsupported state you may find your system in.
Well, you do you, and good luck. But don't say no one warned you when updates stop coming in.....
You keep coming back to ISO's and upgrades, and possibly hacking updates with third party tools.... it is almost like you are so blinded by the new shiny of Windows 11 that going back to Windows 10 is the lesser of the two options, regardless of the unsupported state you may find your system in.
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