Run it, accept, install, and then Finish. If you hit Ctrl+F to find, start typing in Download and then click Download App. You can see if you’re ready for Windows 11, in search or your browser, with “Upgrade to the New Windows 11 OS”. So how do you see if Secure Boot is working in Windows? Just click search and type “msinfo” and hit Enter, and halfway down the list you’ll see Secure Boot State and this should say On.

The status will say ready for use, and in the middle column, if you scroll right it will give the Specification Version which is 2.0. We’ll boot up into Windows, and we can check if TPM is working, click on search and type in tpm.msc and hit Enter. Windows check: Enable Secure Boot worked? If you’re doing this now, having another device like a laptop or phone with this video will make following this walk through nice and easy.

So it’s quick and easy to do this in BIOS with a few steps, as well as give you some troubleshooting tips, when you’re ready to get Windows 11. Enable Secure Boot & TPM for Windows 11: BIOS How To Guide! By the way, don’t forget to give us a quick follow on social media, and subscribe and bell, all that good stuff, and if you tried your own upgrade or have questions, leave your comments down below. We’ll be doing this with an MSI B550 Tomahawk which is an AMD board, and we also tested with an Intel z390 Tomahawk, b360 Gaming Arctic and an older z270 XPower Gaming and this works with all these models. Today we’ll look at both settings in BIOS that may need to be enabled, and it’s a cool breeze if you follow our guide.

Two of the requirements for PCs to install Windows 11 are that both TPM and Secure Boot must be enabled in your system. With the release of Windows 11, Microsoft is stepping up protection for your PC in today’s online and work from home world, making securing your PC a necessity. If you still have issues, then try a fresh windows install to a spare drive.

UPDATE : You may need to convert your current system drive, if it’s MBR, to GPT.

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