I had a problem with my computer over the weekend. At one point, I noticed a simple text in the lower right corner of my screen that said, “System requirements were not met. Go to Settings to find out more.” In the depths of the internal raids fate 2 I ignored the post, assuming it’s related to the Wallpaper Engine or one of the 10 other apps running in the background on my PC at any given time.
Monday morning, I found out that the message was coming from Microsoft on computers with unsupported Windows 11 installation. But this is my problem my computer supports Windows 11.
Microsoft failed with its custom PCs running Windows 11, not only because of the persistent insistence that builders carefully study the requirements for Windows 11, but also because of the lack of instructions on how to use PCs dedicated to the new operating system.
There’s a narrative history here, but here are the icy notes: When Microsoft announced Windows 11, PC builders were sent to panic when Microsoft’s Health Check app said their hardware wouldn’t be supported. They were, but Microsoft didn’t make it clear. The main issue hit the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which motherboards usually get off the shelves.
Microsoft responded with more instructions about system requirements, and it all seems to be deceptive. However, we learned that in February Microsoft tested the watermark for unsupported installations of Windows 11. Now, this watermark is here, including on a supported PC.
The problem, again, is down to the TPM. Motherboard suppliers We’ve updated their boards to ship with TPM enabled, but Microsoft is ignoring the majority of custom and supported PCs that don’t have TPM enabled. And like a vicious circle, Microsoft is back to telling users that their devices aren’t supported without providing instructions.
Back to the watermark. Tells users to go to settings List to find out more, what I did. It sends you to this webpage that explains unsupported Windows 11 installations, but does not offer solutions for watermarked PCs. It basically reads, “Sorry, I’m not lucky,” and stretches across seven paragraphs.
The only useful link is the Microsoft PC Health Check app, which provides detailed solutions if your computer does not support Windows 11 or is not configured properly. However, this is another problem: you cannot use the PC Health Check app if you already have Windows 11. Therefore, if you see this message, which you can only see in Windows 11, you cannot use the tool Microsoft recommends Solve the problem.
Currently, the post is limited to Windows Insider builds, according to my reports and experiences. Microsoft hasn’t announced the watermark in any changelog, but its move to beta channels and its release to Windows Insiders suggests that it may be rolling out soon enough.
This is something that makes the watermark annoying. This is another thing a user could have upgraded to Windows 11 months ago using only supported devices to see this post and not know how to get rid of it. Even more frustrating is that you can only upgrade back to Windows 10 for 10 days after installing Windows 11, which gives custom PC builders an ultimatum between dealing with the watermark or performing a clean install of Windows 10.
I received a lot of criticism for Windows 11 at the time of its announcement, and most of it was aimed at TPM requirements. Microsoft has addressed many of the issues I’m having, but the new watermark is regression. We’re back in first place, and that’s bad news for Microsoft.
Since launch, we’ve learned that Windows 11 adoption has slowed. It’s hard to see why adoption has slowed, but I bet there are plenty of PC builders who saw one of Microsoft’s many posts about unsupported installs with supported devices and gave up. There are also Microsoft whispers checking ads in Windows 11 File Explorer, only complex issues for the operating system.
Windows 11 is a really cool edition. Unfortunately, Microsoft failed on many dedicated Windows PCs with it. Currently, custom PCs with an issue like mine are left without any ads or instructions from Microsoft as well as an annoying watermark because it’s inaccurate.
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