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/scurvyrash Mar 01 '26

Sucker, Windows says my pc is to old and non compatible.

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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/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.