{"id":118319,"date":"2024-10-25T20:04:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118319"},"modified":"2024-10-25T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:04:48","slug":"what-i-learned-from-3-years-of-running-windows-11-on-unsupported-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118319","title":{"rendered":"What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on \u201cunsupported\u201d PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>And those aren&#8217;t the only niceties that have become standard or near-standard on midrange and high-end laptops these days. We also have high-resolution, high-density displays; the adoption of taller screen aspect ratios like 16:10 and 3:2, giving us more vertical screen space to use; USB-C charging, replacing the need for proprietary power bricks; and backlit keyboards!<\/p>\n<p>The ThinkPad X230 I bought doesn&#8217;t have a backlit keyboard, but it <em>does<\/em> have a bizarre little booklight next to the webcam that shines down onto the keyboard to illuminate it. This is sort of neat if you&#8217;re already the kind of person inclined to describe janky old laptops as &#8220;neat,&#8221; but it&#8217;s not as practical.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you set aside degraded, swollen, or otherwise broken batteries and the extra wear and tear that comes with portability, a laptop from the last three or four years will have a ton of useful upgrades and amenities aside from extra speed. That&#8217;s not to say that older laptops can&#8217;t be useful because they obviously can be. But it&#8217;s also a place where an upgrade can make a bigger difference than just getting you Windows 11 support.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"some-security-concerns\">Some security concerns<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"ars-img-shortcode id-2058370 align-fullwidth\">\n<div>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1464\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/win11-security-unsupported.png\" class=\"fullwidth full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/win11-security-unsupported.png 1464w, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/win11-security-unsupported-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/win11-security-unsupported-640x281.png 640w, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/win11-security-unsupported-768x337.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/win11-security-unsupported-980x430.png 980w, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/win11-security-unsupported-1440x632.png 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1464px) 100vw, 1464px\"\/>\n                  <\/div><figcaption>\n<div class=\"caption mt-1 inline-flex flex-row items-stretch gap-1 text-lg leading-tight text-gray-300\">\n<p>\n      Some old PCs will never meet Windows 11&#8217;s more stringent security requirements, and PC makers often stop updating their systems long before Microsoft drops support.<\/p>\n<p>              <span class=\"caption-credit mt-2 whitespace-nowrap text-xs\"><br \/>\n          Credit:<\/p>\n<p>          Andrew Cunningham<\/p>\n<p>                  <\/span>\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Windows 11&#8217;s system requirements were controversial in part because they were <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/08\/why-windows-11-has-such-strict-hardware-requirements-according-to-microsoft\/\">focused mostly on previously obscure\u00a0security features<\/a> like TPM 2.0 modules, hypervisor-protected code integrity (HVCI), and mode-based execution control (MBEC). A TPM module makes it possible to seamlessly encrypt your PC&#8217;s local storage, <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/security\/hardware-security\/tpm\/how-windows-uses-the-tpm\">among other things<\/a>, while HVCI helps to isolate data in memory from the rest of the operating system to make it harder for malicious software to steal things (MBEC is just a CPU technology that speeds up HVCI, which can come with a hefty performance penalty on older systems).<\/p>\n<p>Aside from those specific security features, there are other concerns when using old PCs, some of the same ones we&#8217;ve discussed in macOS as Apple has wound down support for Intel Macs. Microsoft&#8217;s patches can protect against software security vulnerabilities in Windows, and they can provide some partial mitigations for firmware-based vulnerabilities since even fully patched and fully supported systems won&#8217;t always have all the latest BIOS fixes installed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2024\/10\/what-i-learned-from-3-years-of-running-windows-11-on-unsupported-pcs\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And those aren&#8217;t the only niceties that have become standard or near-standard on midrange and high-end laptops these days. 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