- Microsoft recently produced some new support documents
- These contain some useful tips for possible updates to Windows 11 that meet problems
- Some of this is very useful to know, including why Windows 11 is not immediately offered after updating your CPU
Microsoft recently provided some new problem solving tips for those who seek to update from Windows 10 to Windows 11 that could be confused in some aspects.
Neowin noticed a couple of relatively new support documents that have been published by Microsoft at some point earlier this year. They deal with the problems that may arise after updating the hardware on your PC to obtain Windows 11, or find a particular message that tells you that some aspect of the “needs attention ‘update.
Let’s start with the previous scenario that is covered in a support article on ‘Verify if a device meets the Windows 11 requirements after changing the hardware’ and provides tips for those who have just updated to ensure that their Windows 10 PC can meet the strictest requirements for Windows 11.
It is more likely that update is a new CPU, since the oldest processors are often an important attached point, or possibly the addition of a TPM 2.0 module (a security function).
In any case, whatever the hardware change you have done on your PC, so it is eligible for Windows 11, you can find that when you activate the Windows update to activate the update, which is not there. In other words, the system will tell you that your PC is not yet compatible with Windows 11, although it has just installed that new bright component that the trick should do.
However, as Microsoft explains, there is no need to panic here. Actually, it is the case that “you can take up to 24 hours for Windows Update to update the eligibility information”, which means that it is possible to wait a while before the hardware changes filters and registered with Windows Update, and then Windows 11 is offered.
If you cannot wait, there is a trick to manually update the eligibility evaluation of your PC (using the task programmer, as advised here), or the easiest route is to use the PC Health Check application instead of entering Windows Update (as the application will immediately recognize your updated hardware, Microsoft informs us).
As for the second support document brought to light, this approaches what to do if you see a notification of ‘what needs your attention’ during the Windows 11 update process, which is certainly a kind of vague key in process.
Microsoft explains in detail what all this is about, which describes the reasons why an aspiring Windows 11 update could see this notification arise, including an explanation of the quite cryptic message ‘No action is needed’ that can accompany it. In this case, the user cannot do anything, what he could suppose, but what he might not guess is that the known problem caused by the message can be solved by Microsoft in time. And if this happens, Windows 11 update will be automatically offered, so there is still hope in this scenario.
Microsoft also details what you can do with respect to the ‘incompatible privacy settings’ if that is the cause of notification, and provides more information about what to do if the problem is the incompatible problem.
ANALYSIS: Better late than ever
These are useful clarifications with which the information about the delay with an update to Windows 11 that is being deleted on its PC must be provided, if it continues through Windows Update after installing a new hardware.
Those who are not aware of this (and were not) could update their CPU (say), then spend hours looking on the web in vain trying to find out why they still cannot obtain Windows 11, if they did not try the PC health verification application and the Windows update (which is completely possible). Therefore, that application is clearly its best commitment to a simple and immediate update to Windows 11 after installing the new hardware necessary to meet the requirements of the operating system.
Ideally, mind, all these details should have been in their place a long time ago. Later than ever, of course, but Microsoft should really have been more in the ball with part of this information, instead of adding it recently, at this late stage of the game, no doubt caused by the fact that the end of the life of Windows 10 is quickly arriving in sight.
