Windows 10 EOS (22H2) Oct. 14, 2025

[David L]

SECOND WINDOWS 10 PC UPGRADE TO WIN11, SUCCESSFUL!!!

I am two machines away from saying Goodbye to Windows 10, one an old laptop and a HTPC with 2nd gen Proc. hahaha, it would be a miracle for either one of them, hahaha

This PC is a bit different from the first. I installed a TPM 2.0 module which PC Health Clearly shows Active, as does my BIOS, plus I do not get the AsIO.sys Error like my first PC without the module. So I am leaning that Secure Boot is working.


But MSINFO on WIN10 and now WIN11 shows Secure Boot State Off:



Still Updating, what I noticed with this PC as well as my first, is the ISO available on the flyby11 site, which is recommended requires an update after WIN11 install.
You do have the option to download the ISO directly from Microsoft, which is probably more up to date, but glad I did it this way so I can verify Updates work.



Still checking programs but so far all are working great, Office, Outlook, QuickBooks which are both older versions. Thunderbird worked too. Browsers actually kept my open Tabs, wow, nice. RDP worked right away...

Looks like another Update coming which is great since it was one of my main concern doing this.


WIN11 is also showing Activation Checked:


DONE: all programs worked, all up to date:

 

[David L]

I know I am only 2 days into this with two PCs successfully upgraded from WIN10 to WIN11, but from what I am experiencing, I would recommend this flyby11 installer. It is not a hack, just a work around to Microsoft's WIN11 hardware check/requirements by using Windows Server Installer, which is a non-bloated version of Windows, well the NOS is...so Windows Server does not do any hardware requirement checks...

Just so ya'll know, WIN11 core is pretty much WIN10, only reason for hardware requirements in WIN11 is due to Microsoft and everyone else pushing their AI upon us all which require alot more processing/memory...you will see even more in WIN12

 

[David L]

You know while on the throne, , I got to thinking, why was Updates such a big deal for me not doing this? What is the difference, WIN10 will lose it's updates after Oct. 2025 this year or if WIN11 updates did not work, same thing right?

 

[AP514]

Why update -if your using BI ?? I will stick with Win 10 and updates off........

 

[David L]

Why update -if your using BI ?? I will stick with Win 10 and updates off........

Good point, I don't allow my BI PC on the Internet. I temporarily connect from time to time to do BI and WIN updates...

BI set aside, I still recommend other WIN10 PCs this upgrade.

 

[samplenhold]

Great, thanks for posting this.

I take it that you did not have to reload all of your other software?

 

[Flintstone61]

I have three systems still on W10 that MS says do not meet hardware requirements. These three systems are ones that I have built several years ago. It is my plan to re-build these systems to a more current CPU and put W11 on them. But I doubt that I will have the time to do this before the end of the year.

1. My BI machine is an i7-8700.
2. Wife's desktop is an i7-7700K.
3. My desktop is an i7-3770K.

Glad you posted the info above. I think that I will try that out on these systems and hope that I can postpone rebuilding them until 1Q26.

I really dread the rebuild as I do not cherish trying to reload all of the software on each of these systems.

the i7-8700 is supported on W-11, Most manufactured PC's with that chip would have the Trusted Platform Module that meets W-11 prerequisites.

 

[David L]

Great, thanks for posting this.

I take it that you did not have to reload all of your other software?

Zero. It was the best upgrade I have ever experienced. Still blown away that the browsers even kept their open tabs.

This is my first Windows 10 to Windows 11 upgrade, none of my PCs were qualified. My new laptop came with WIN11 installed, my Gaming PC I did a clean WIN11 install.

Back when I upgraded to WIN10 from WIN7/8 it was ok but I had some programs that needed to be reinstalled since they did not work, the upgrade was not bad, but this upgrade blows it away and I have some old programs I still use.

Rarely do I brag about Microsoft but they hit this one out of the park. I am helping a friend this morning over the phone upgrade his PC.

 

[David L]

Great, thanks for posting this.

I take it that you did not have to reload all of your other software?

Just run PC Health Check, it will tell you if you can upgrade. If not, use flyby11

FYI, I just used the Flyby11 3.0 (Classic)

Scroll down and click on Latest:



Watch this video, language pick is Important (English - United States), not English International which the installer defaults to...



Like with all new O/Ss there is going to be a transition, if you haven't used WIN11 before. Once I got use to it, I like..

 

[David L]

I have to add one more thing.

Remote Desktop (RDP) I have noticed is much better now connecting my main WIN11 PC to the newly upgraded WIN11 PCs. It is snapper is all I can describe, a noticeable difference from when they were running WIN10. I have 3 sessions going at all times, one is connected to Ubuntu running Home Assistant in a VM



QUEEN is my wife's PC...I am KING..., well atleast in my mind, lol, she dethroned me when I met her LOL

Wow, last month is 30 years with my wife...how she has put up with me all these years...wow

Haha, just got to thinkin' using RDP to control her PC via mine is the ONLY control I have over her, hahahaha

 

[samplenhold]

the i7-8700 is supported on W-11, Most manufactured PC's with that chip would have the Trusted Platform Module that meets W-11 prerequisites.

MS PC Health Check says not supported. I have to check the BIOS to see if TPM 2.0 is just not turned on. I built this guy myself. Maybe I need a module.

Just run PC Health Check, it will tell you if you can upgrade. If not, use flyby11

All three of my WIN 10 machines say not supported. That is why I was interested in how it went for you with Flyby11.

 

[Flintstone61]

i have all these thumb drives inmy desk....i keep repurposing them with dif Windows .iso's Somewhere is a copy of W11 Insider prerelease final candidate that ask for TPM blah blah blah...it just loads. put it on a little dell 7020 sff.
worked good....searching for it....
I wonder if you can Google for it.
well wait, they don't continue with updates after the real version gets released....don't know if thats good or bad when it comes to a BI machine.

 

[samplenhold]

i have all these thumb drives inmy desk....i keep repurposing them with dif Windows .iso's Somewhere is a copy of W11 Insider prerelease final candidate that ask for TPM blah blah blah...it just loads. put it on a little dell 7020 sff.
worked good....searching for it....
I wonder if you can Google for it.
well wait, they don't continue with updates after the real version gets released....don't know if thats good or bad when it comes to a BI machine.

Not to worry. I will just use Flyby11

 

[Flintstone61]

Not to worry. I will just use Flyby11

let me know how it goes, I have a pile of Dells sitting around.

 

[David L]

MS PC Health Check says not supported. I have to check the BIOS to see if TPM 2.0 is just not turned on. I built this guy myself. Maybe I need a module.


All three of my WIN 10 machines say not supported. That is why I was interested in how it went for you with Flyby11.

I had Zero problems, upgrade went great on both my Intel Gen 4 and Gen 6 PCs. Also, no slow downs running WIN11 on them. They both have 32 gigs of memory and video cards, the Gen 4 has a 970 card and the Gen 6 has a 1070.

Tip on Secure Boot, in the BIOs turn it On and check to see if keys are created. If not, just do default keys, that is what I did on the Gen 6 that has a TPM module I bought for it. But you really don't have to have TPM with flyby11 Installer. Only thing you will get is a message about a missing AsIO.sys file missing which you can check Off/bypass and never see again:



HTH

 

[David L]

i have all these thumb drives inmy desk....i keep repurposing them with dif Windows .iso's Somewhere is a copy of W11 Insider prerelease final candidate that ask for TPM blah blah blah...it just loads. put it on a little dell 7020 sff.
worked good....searching for it....
I wonder if you can Google for it.
well wait, they don't continue with updates after the real version gets released....don't know if thats good or bad when it comes to a BI machine.

I am receiving updates on WIN11 (24H2) just fine on both PCs that I upgraded. Only issue that is stated about this flyby11 is when 25H2 comes out, possibly this year, it may not update, if the update does the PC Health check, if not, we will have to run flyby11 again with the new 25H2 ISO to my understanding...

I am ok with this since major updates only come out once a year, on avg.

 

[David L]

Did see a video stating Microsoft is offering a $30 a year security update plan on WIN10, only major security updates though for consumers. These plans exist for big corporations that have multiple older O/Ss running...

Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10

Learn about the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10. The ESU program gives customers the option to receive security updates for Windows 10.

learn.microsoft.com

I'll pass

 

[Oceanslider]

I’m running an older stand alone version of Quickbooks on a Windows 10 PC. I wish I could get it to stop prompting me to upgrade to Windows 11. I only use this PC for Quickbooks and sending out customer invoices.

 

[Flintstone61]

Same. I have a 4th gen dell 9020 optiplex holding my only instance of the full program of Quickbooks 2014 and a copy of Photoshop 6.0., Im not getting w11 prompts though. Is it a Pro or Home version?
Although I am no longer doing LLC. If Uncle Sam comes sniffing around...i'd like to have it.

I’m running an older stand alone version of Quickbooks on a Windows 10 PC. I wish I could get it to stop prompting me to upgrade to Windows 11. I only use this PC for Quickbooks and sending out customer invoic

 

[David L]

Quickbooks sucks going cloud based, IMO. I also have Quickbooks Pro 2014 the installed PC version:


Just so ya'll know, when I upgraded the PC with Quickbooks on it using flyby11 it worked Perfect. Did not skip a beat.

Never got any messages to upgrade to WIN11 from Quickbooks, but for years plenty of messages from Quickbooks to upgrade...this is my final message, Service has expired, lol

Updates stopped in 2021 for me so I turned off auto update.

I would include pics but the Forum is not allowing me to post images...