What might not be easy to find — even to the more technically inclined — is the Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0) requirements for Windows 11.

Windows 11 officially requires a Trusted Platform Module. Here's what it does and how you can work around that requirement if your old PC doesn't have one.

Microsoft recommends only installing Windows 11 after its PC Health Check check gives your system a pass, and that requires it to support TPM 2.0 and a strict list of compatible processors.

Since 2013, Intel and AMD added firmware TPM technology to many of their CPUs that perform the same functionality as a TPM 2.0 processor without the need of a dedicated module.

However, while installing Windows 11 on Hyper-V, you might get some interruptions due to not having TPM enabled. That is the reason why you should enable this security functionality to get the job ...

Although installing a TPM 2.0 device manually is possible, most present days’ motherboards have this module in built.

TPM —Trusted Platform Module 2.0 is listed as a minimum requirement; TPM 1.2 may or may not be "good enough"—but read on before throwing your hands up in despair!

My module is TPM 1.2, Asus makes 2.0 compliant ones now and apparently Bitlocker doesn't use RSA Keys when a TPM 2.0 is available. If so, how do I do the upgrade without locking myself out of my data?