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Windows11Upgrade

Windows 11 Upgrade tool that bypasses Microsoft´s requirements

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Windows 11 Upgrade tool that bypasses Microsoft´s requirements

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2021-11-06 11:40:29 UTC to 2021-11-06 16:01:23 UTC.

012021-11-06 11:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-06 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsNov 6, 11:002021-11-06 12:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-06 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-06 13:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-06 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsNov 6, 13:002021-11-06 14:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-06 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-06 15:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-06 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-06 16:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-06 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 6, 16:00

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Nov 6, 11:002021-11-06 11:00:00 UTC2021-11-06 12:00:00 UTC110
Nov 6, 12:002021-11-06 12:00:00 UTC2021-11-06 13:00:00 UTC000
Nov 6, 13:002021-11-06 13:00:00 UTC2021-11-06 14:00:00 UTC000
Nov 6, 14:002021-11-06 14:00:00 UTC2021-11-06 15:00:00 UTC000
Nov 6, 15:002021-11-06 15:00:00 UTC2021-11-06 16:00:00 UTC000
Nov 6, 16:002021-11-06 16:00:00 UTC2021-11-06 17:00:00 UTC101

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Interesting. If I understand correctly, the "bypass" is https://github.com/coofcookie/Windows11Upgrade/blob/1.0.0/Wi... which is a copy of https://github.com/AveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat/blob/main/MCT... which appears to be intentionally cryptic. It sets HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup\AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU=1 which is mentioned by Microsoft in https://support.microsoft.com/windows/ways-to-install-window... which seems reasonable. According to the comment, the rest of the script "uses IFEO to attach to Virtual Disk Service Loader process running during setup, then erases appraiserres.dll [...] it must also do some ping-pong renaming of vdsldr in system32\11" Could anyone explain this in more detail? Also note, according to https://github.com/AveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat/issues/11 it skips the CPU and TPM checks, but not the Secure
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