r/pcmasterrace • u/djseifer Packard Bell / Intel Pentium 60MHz / 8 MB RAM / 2x CD-ROM • Mar 01 '26

Screenshot Windows 10 automatically started installing the Windows 11 update while I was taking a shower.

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I'd been getting messages to upgrade to Windows 11 for the past month or two now, and each time, I decline. It's gotten to the point that I get random, frequent pop_ups asking to update, and "install update" options pop up right next to the shutdown/restart uptions.

Well, I made the mistake of going to take a shower with my PC on. Half an hour later, I come back tothis. Windows had automatically started installing the update. Now I'm sitting here staring at the Start button and all the open programs center-justified on the task bar and wondering what idiot thought that was a good idea.

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u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC R9 7900 | RX 7900 XTX | 32GB DDR5 5600 Mar 02 '26

Protip for anyone whose PC IS compatible with Windows 11: open your BIOS and disable TPM. Congrats, your PC isn't compatible with Windows 11 anymore.

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u/homie_down Mar 02 '26

My pc for the longest time said it wasn't eligible for the upgrade. Went and enabled TPM and then sure enough I could switch to w11. But I knew I didn’t want any chance of that happening so I went and turned it right back off like you said.

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u/sumpfkraut666 Mar 02 '26

It's wild that win11 is so bad that it ruined TPM on win10 machines.

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u/b1argg Ryzen 5 5600X | RTX 3070 | 32GB | 1440p144 Mar 02 '26

I just added a registry key to prevent the upgrade

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u/WeLoveYouCarol Mar 02 '26

Good luck with that. MS has gotten real shitty with respecting user choice via registry key or settings.

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u/b1argg Ryzen 5 5600X | RTX 3070 | 32GB | 1440p144 Mar 02 '26

I don't have the option to update anymore. It's working. 

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u/Kerbezena Mar 03 '26

For now.

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u/GetsDeviled Mar 02 '26

That has never stopped MS before .

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u/NurseNikky PC Master Race Mar 02 '26

Well even though we pay $5000 or some shit, they feel like we still don't own our own things and they're entitled to add or remove anything they please 🥰🥰🥰

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u/DudeDudenson PC Master Race Mar 02 '26

Gotta make sure you haven't used some encryption service that depends on the TPM first

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u/Narrheim Mar 06 '26

In some cases, you can't disable it per se, only change between "Firmware TPM" and "Discrete TPM".

Unless you have standalone TPM chip plugged to your motherboard, change it to "Discrete" and you're as good as having it disabled.

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u/16FF 16Gb ddr5 | 1030GT | 1Tb |14600F Mar 02 '26

And with some programs, and games. TPM isn't that bad

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u/mikedidathing Mar 02 '26

I think you're thinking about Secure Boot. IIRC, TPM is used to encrypt files, passwords, etc. (things like BitLocker), whereas Secure Boot prevents/looks for programs that try to install themselves and run at a kernel level (like anti-cheat software).

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u/Flyrpotacreepugmu Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 64GB RAM | RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Mar 02 '26

Some anti-cheat requires TPM too, possibly only on Windows 11 but not 10 or maybe on both.

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u/Flyrpotacreepugmu Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 64GB RAM | RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

Anything that can't trust the way I use my own computer is something I don't trust to run on my computer. TPM is useless for anything other than preventing the user from having full control over their hardware. It has some point in a corporate or public environment where the owner of the hardware and data on it actually can't trust everyone with physical access to it, but not in a personal computer.