I have used a Rufus created USB to update 2 non supported CPU machines to 22H2 (both have TPM2 & local accounts)
I disconnected the internet connection (unplugged the network) & did the update without any problems. CPUs were i5 - a 4th gen & a 6th gen.
After completion I reconnected network &...
I'm quite happy to have Windows 11 (released version) on "unsupported" hardware. So far I have installed it successfully on 4 "unsupported" machines (Intel 3rd gen/4th gen/6th gen including OptiPlex 7010 9020 5050) & two of them are the sole machines of their current owners.
I have also...
My usual solution for this kind of difficulty is to video the activity (aren't smartphones really useful?)- I can then scroll through the video as slow as I like & pause it to read any fleetingly displayed messages