With much help from this forum, several months ago I updated my W10 OS to W11 using one of those programs that bypassed the Microsoft checks. (I have a "non compliant" system).

All has been fine up to just before Christmas when I noticed that I was getting update failed messages. Before that updates were taking place regularly.

I checked and found that the update was reporting that it could not proceed as TPM and secure boot were not present.

Dear old Google showed a registry hack that I was assured would fix it.

It hasn't.

There doesn't seem to be any practical downside to this at present but is there a permanent fix (apart from buying a new PC, which is out of the question)? And why now is it starting to complain?

Any suggestions welcome.

Edited December 29, 2025Dec 29 by IanHarrison
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On 12/28/2025 at 11:22 PM, IanHarrison said:

With much help from this forum, several months ago I updated my W10 OS to W11 using one of those programs that bypassed the Microsoft checks. (I have a "non compliant" system).

All has been fine up to just before Christmas when I noticed that I was getting update failed messages. Before that updates were taking place regularly.

I checked and found that the update was reporting that it could not proceed as TPM and secure boot were not present.

Dear old Google showed a registry hack that I was assured would fix it.

It hasn't.

There doesn't seem to be any practical downside to this at present but is there a permanent fix (apart from buying a new PC, which is out of the question)? And why now is it starting to complain?

Any suggestions welcome.

Not that I have done the W11 update that way, but I have ran into issues with W11 updates in the past. You may try Googling how to clear the W11 update cache that seemed to get mine through those weird errors in the past. Hope it helps & good luck.

WOW! Thanks a stack.

Did what you said and, although it couldn't delete every folder (said that one was in use), when I restarted the update, there was no problem.

The system now reports that it is up to date.

On 1/1/2026 at 12:25 AM, IanHarrison said:

WOW! Thanks a stack.

Did what you said and, although it couldn't delete every folder (said that one was in use), when I restarted the update, there was no problem.

The system now reports that it is up to date.

Glad you got her back on track Ian, I do prefer W11 over W10, personally. 🤠