Microsoft has reinstated its PC Health Check app. This simple tool is meant to tell you whether Windows 11 is compatible with your computer, but it took it offline in June when it continued to tell people with modern PCs that they couldn’t run the new operating system with little information about why not. It was recently available to members of the Windows Insider Program, but is now back for everyone.
The first time you perform a PC Health Check offline, Microsoft allowed in blog posts that the app “is not fully prepared to share the level of detail or accuracy you would expect for us to see why a Windows 10 PC does not meet the upgrade requirements.”
Many issues are related to Trusted Platform Module version 2.0 or TPM 2.0. This feature is a necessary part of the Windows 11 security system, but not on all motherboards. To make matters even more confusing, some motherboards that support it are still not enabled in the BIOS. Given the TPM2.0 issue, the PC Health Check application will simply say that the user’s processor is not supported by Windows 11.
However, the revised version of the PC Health Check application gives a message stating that TPM 2.0 is supported and must be enabled to run Windows 11. It still cannot distinguish between motherboards that do not support TPM2.0 and instances where it does support but is turned off. However, this shows that users in the guide to enable TPM 2.0.
Still not ideal, but better than ever. You can download the PC Health Check app from at the bottom of this page. Windows 11 is scheduled from October 5th.
–
–
