Going by my experience with unencrypting a BitLockered drive, be prepared to start it overnight and wait until the process has fully completed. If you have, you’ll have to unencrypt the hard drive and re-encrypt it after the firmware upgrading process. Updating your computer to support TPM 2 may be only a boot away, or it may be more complicated.īut first you have to ask yourself if you’ve encrypted your hard drive with a third-party encryption tool or with BitLocker. If you have a TPM chip on the motherboard and it’s enabled in the bios, then the resulting screen will show you if you have TPM 1.2 or 2.0. Start by clicking in the Windows search box and typing in tpm.msc. You may need to do some research on your computer or motherboard to see if it shipped with a TPM chip or can support it. Upgrading to TPM 2.0īut let’s start with the basics.

Rather, it’s a time to determine which computers can be updated to Windows 11 when it comes out at the end of the year and which ones should be left at Windows 10. To be clear, Windows 10 will be supported with updates until 2025, so there is no need to panic now.

(Find out how to use the Windows 11 requirements checker.) So why am I worrying about upgrading hardware? Because of the recommended hardware mandated with the upcoming Windows 11 rollout near the end of the year - requirements that include a 64-bit processor with 2+ cores and a speed of at least 1GHz, as well as a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0.

Windows 11 cost to upgrade