Microsoft closes another door for bypassing the TPM 2.0 requirement in Windows 11

It's no secret that PC owners have been sticking with Windows 10 and one reason for this has been the TPM 2.0 requirement, preventing older PCs from being compliant. However, there have been several ways to circumnavigate this—but in a recent beta version of Windows, Microsoft has shut the door firmly on one of the more popular methods.

The method in question was remarkably simple—just apply a /product server argument to the setup execute file to trick Windows 11 into thinking the PC was a server and thus bypass the TPM 2.0 requirement. But as X user Bob Pony found out (via Tom's Hardware), Microsoft has now blocked that method in an Insider build of Windows.

The recently released Windows 11 Insider Build 27686 (Dilithium) has patched the «setup.exe /product server» workaround for bypassing the system requirements check.