Now Microsoft’s app will say why your PC isn’t prepared for Windows 11

Microsoft has up to date its PC Health Check App to indicate extra details about why your pc received’t have the ability to run Windows 11, to assist cope with a number of the confusion that’s sprung up round compatibility. If you’ve already downloaded the app, it ought to auto-update if you go to run it once more, and should you haven’t downloaded it but you can get it here.

There’s been a little bit of confusion about what Windows 11 will and received’t run on, and the earlier model of the software didn’t essentially assist clear any of it up, primarily exhibiting customers a move/fail message with no particulars. Now, it ought to not less than give some clue as to why your pc isn’t suitable, be it a problem with storage, safe boot compatibility, or your processor.

As some have pointed out, the messages the software provides out are nonetheless gentle on particulars in some circumstances: “the processor isn’t supported” isn’t actually an actionable merchandise, because it doesn’t inform you why your CPU can’t run Windows 11. If you’d slightly improve a element or two in your system as a substitute of simply going out and shopping for a brand new PC, you’re going to must do some extra analysis.

You might need to wait on that, although: Microsoft nonetheless appears to be working via its messaging of what’s and isn’t supported, particularly on the subject of CPUs. So keep tuned for a ultimate reply earlier than you attempt to courageous the PC half market throughout a chip scarcity.