Just upgraded from Win 11 22H2 to 23H2. My X1Carbon 3rd Gen came originally with Win7 then upgraded to Win 8.1 then Win 10 then 11 22H2... Your directions were flawless! Keep up the great job...🙂
Thank you for posting this straightforward guide. I am running unsupported hardware. I was able to use the registry fix to upgrade from Win10 to Win11 but I was stuck at 21H2. I was expecting to have to use one of your options but just downloading the ISO and running setup on it's own worked for me. No other intervention was required. Hope this helps anyone else that is in the same situation.
I recently bought a refurbished pc with Win 11 21H2 and wondered why it was not updating, turns out it has an unsupported cpu, however following your instructions I now have an up to date Win11 23H2 pc. Many thanks.
Vielen Dank für diese detaillierte Beschreibung für den upgrade auf 23H2. So kann ich den Kauf für ein neues Notebook hinauszögern! Mal schauen nächstes Jahr im Juni wenn Win12 im anmarsch sein wird.🤓
I just updated another 11 year old HP laptop to Windows 11 last night following your video after it was returned to me from my daughter after 2 years in her cupboard. I had tried the other day but it got stuck at 46% so I ended up doing a Windows 10 rest first. I've also updated my 13 year old HP laptop from 22H2 to 23H2 and in process of doing same with my Acer desktop. Your video was vert simple to follow and good to see no registry tweaking required, just editing a file. Thanks again.
I've been messing around trying to download 23H2 for a few weeks, trying different methods that are a lot more complicated than this but didn't work. I will try this option 2... if it works, which it appears to do, I want to thank you in advance! 🤗
Follow up to my previous post - (next one down) - Windows ver. 23H2 now installed! WORKS PERFECT! Even on a machine with only 3GB RAM and a 1.3 GHz AMD Processor!!!! Thanks Again!
I have a fully supported system on 22H2 but wasn't seeing the 23H2 upgrade. I didn't have KB5031455 but I did have KB5032190. After installing the Enablement Update and restarting it successfully showed 23H2 in System > About and winver. Thank you! 😊
Same here - no 1455 update but had 2190. All 23H2 new features seemed to be working, although version still shown as 22H2, so installed 7397 enablement (sic) package and now showing 23H2 in System > About. PC (E-350) isn't used much, so must have missed 1455 before it was superseded by 2190. Excellent video and instructions.
The upgrade worked like a dream- in my case from w11 21h2 to 23h2. However despite giving it instructions to the contrary, files that were stored on my internal hard drive were deleted during the upgrade.
When downloading the ISO from the Microsoft website choose the language you're currently using otherwise you won't get the option to retain your apps and files upon installation (upgrading). I just found that out. On my laptop it said the en-US language was the base language but the used language is NL, then when using the downloaded en-US ISO I didn't get the option to save apps and files. Only when I reran the procedure using the US International ISO everything went as shown in this video.
Brilliant . Worked to update my unsupported dell latitude E7270 laptop on Windows 11 22H2 to 23H2. No problems. Hope a similar workaround can be used for 24H2 later in the year ?
Just did it qs you explained. And thankfully it's working fine . Even though i already had every feature of 23h2 while using the 22h2 but still i can't find the copilot feature 😢. But thanks nicely done.
I want to know what are the differences between 21H2 and 23H2 ? I am still use 21H2 on 7rd intel CPU. In my opinion, if rhere are no problems in this computer at this time, why we should update version ? I wonder if I update to new version, the problems will arise.
I am running an i5 6500 on a Dell Optiplex 7040 MT (bare bones) build, unsupported of course. Did this last spring and installed Windows 10 22H2 . Upgraded to Windows 11 22H2 after a couple of weeks using the RUFUS bypass. And today, followed your ISO File option, yet no unsupported window popped up and it just started downloading 23H2. Also, I read somewhere that KB5031455 is now the fully upgraded enablement package update, which I apparently already had. Anyhow, not complaining for sure, but I wonder why the upgrade worked so easy. It the RUFUS bypass permanent? Very informative videos. Be blessed.
Well done although I had to rely on a support forum that said kb5031455 is optional and if it doesn't work then go to a specific place on the settings/update/[I think it was advanced] and delete that kb from the to-do list. That was between the first big download/install and the one that disables the hardware check. Finally, after many hours (several working days worth) of search and try and many "install - oh wait didn't work, reboot to remove" efforts which takes almost 2 hours at times and 3 reboots - I am up to 23H2. I have a socket 2011 with 64 GB of RAM so I have no pressing need to get a new system. I do SW development and that amount of RAM is plenty, but Microsoft's decision a couple of years ago was questionable (they should have announced it would happen 3-4 years in advance). I tried a TPM or two I got from Amazon but none worked with my MSI motherboard - if it had I wouldn't have had to read your posting, but I'm glad you did post it.😀
This doesn't seem to work anymore. After deleting content of the dll file and running setup, it says that Setup cannot check if my computer can run Windows 11 and to restart the setup. -Edit : “Sorry, We’re Having Trouble Determining If Your PC can Run Windows 11” Here's what I did to actually fix this: 1- Control Panel / Troubleshooting / Windows Update 2- DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth 3- sfc /scannow 4- Reboot After that the update worked like a charm.
i followed the tutorial but the update thing is not shown in windows update. Also, when running the setup exe on the modified iso, it does not do anything but quickly open and close a cmd window
I'm seeing the same thing. Cmd window opens and closes very quickly. One time it was a little slower and it seemed to say something about unsupported hardware. HELP!?!?
I can't update from 21H2 to 23H2 no matter what I've tried several tutorials, but it always gives a blue screen when it starts preparing Windows to boot for the first time. I found out that this happens because the computer I'm trying to install 23H2 on has a mechanical hard drive, and one of the requirements for 23H2 is specifically an SSD, not a mechanical hard drive I don't see anyone talking about this, so could you tell me if this is true? The 21H2 installs normally without any issues, and from what I've seen, it seems that the 22H2 does too Only the 23H2 has this requirement
This doesn't work for my computer (21H2),at first it seems to be able to upgrade but at the last computer restart it undos changes and reverts back to 21H2,with error code 0x8007000D-0x2000C.
Great video thank you. I have used Rufus 4.4 to upgrade windows 11 23H2 from the iso of the windows 11 MS site. . On rufus 4.4 they will do the delete files of appraiserres.dll for you. or can do your method of doing deleted them manually.
i have windows 11 come with laptop its register windows and i have win 11 23 h2 upate available once its downlaod and install 100% later i check it show up again and its not installed and give me the error 0x800f081f
I am getting this error while downloading ISO Error We are unable to complete your request at this time. Some users, entities and locations are banned from using this service. For this reason, leveraging anonymous or location hiding technologies
I haven't upgraded from Win 10 but thinking about it. I would be upgrading on my HP workstation which has all the needed hardware except CPU. On Microsoft page there is a workaround for installing Win 11 by adding a registry key, will that work for an upgrade that you are demonstrating here?
I have installed a lot of stuff and downloaded a lot of data, its worth 1TB but I am having severe issues on Win 11 and can't upgrade to 23H2 either, was thinking of going back to Windows 10 until I saw this, will it retain my data? Talking about method #2
I always like your presentations: clear and concise, and just work. However, this time I encountered a problem with setup.exe. The error message in the popup window is "Windows installation encountered an unexpected error. Error code: 0x800700C1 - ox40003" I'll restart the machine and see if that makes any difference. I followed your instructions, and like the time before I was successful. This time going from 22000 21H2 to 23H2, I am running into this small snag.
My issue. I see now what mistake I made. I removed the contents of appraiser.dll, not appreaiserres.dll. Everything is proceeding according to plan now. Hopefully, someone else won't make this simple mistake.
As of 2/25/2024, your procedure doesn't work anymore. First, I'm running Windows 11 Pro 21H2 which I installed on unsupported hardware on 3/11/2022, and it's fully updated. I followed your steps to the letter; 1. Download the Windows 11 23H2 ISO (22H2 is no longer available to download). 2. I mount the ISO by double-clicking it. 3. I opened the 'sources' directory. 4. I double-clicked the 'appraiserres.dll' file, opened it in Wordpad, selected all the text, deleted it, saved and closed the file. 5. Next, I double-clicked setup.exe and it launched. 6. Next, I clicked the "Change how Setup downloads updates" link, clicked the "Not right now" radio button, and then click the 'Next' button. 7. At this point "Checking your PC" and "Getting things ready" appear briefly, and then "Applicable notices and license term" appears, and I click the 'Accept' button. 8. Next, the "Making sure you're ready" screen appears, and shortly after that, the "Windows 11 Setup" text appears, and directly below that a line of text appears that reads, "We can't tell if your PC is ready to continue installing Windows 11. Try restarting Setup." The ONLY option on this screen is a "Close" button. I've gone through this now about 15 times, and every time it ends exactly the same way. Obviously, something has changed in the Win11 setup.exe code that prevents installation. I assume Microsoft is catching on to the various hacks people are using to install Win11 on unsupported hardware, which isn't too surprising. Any ideas about this one?
You forgot the step where you need to copy all files from the mounted ISO to your Desktop (or other location). Otherwise you cannot save the changes to appraiserres.dll as a mountes ISO is read-only.
Hiliarious that it's only the contents of the dll and not even the dll itself.. Do you know if creating a USB image and then removing the contents of the dll also works for a clean installation?
I normally do use Rufus to install it, but I tried to install 23H1 imaged by Rufus on another piece of hardware and it wouldn't bypass the hw check, so that's why I wondered. I'm still okay installing 22H2 to get it on and running the 23H2 installer with blank apiraiserres.dll if that's what it takes. At the end of the day, I just don't have the time to wipe and reinstall, but I couldn't resolve updates that refused to install no matter what DISM passes and SFC correcting any faults. Maddening. Anyhow, thanks a ton. This will get me to a point I have time to do it "properly" at a later time. :)
Thank you for this, unfortunately, In 'Choose what to keep', the only option is 'Nothing' on my Dell Optiples 5050 and Surface Pro. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Just upgraded from Win 11 21H2 to 23H2. Your directions were flawless! You da man!!!
Glad to see it is useful. Thanks for the nice feedback.
I installed the Windows 11 23H2 enablement update from the link you gave in the description and it worked. Thank you for this tutorial!
Great to see and thanks for the update.
did ur data have deleted or no?
@@jensdbeI did the same but now my machine is blue screening again and again pls help 😭😭😭😭
Just upgraded from Win 11 22H2 to 23H2. My X1Carbon 3rd Gen came originally with Win7 then upgraded to Win 8.1 then Win 10 then 11 22H2... Your directions were flawless! Keep up the great job...🙂
Thank you for the easy instructions! I updated from 21H2 to 23H2 on unsupported hardware without problems.
Beautifully explained in simple steps. I installed 23H2 on my unsupported laptop from 21H2 TO 23H2.Thanks.
Thank you for posting this straightforward guide. I am running unsupported hardware. I was able to use the registry fix to upgrade from Win10 to Win11 but I was stuck at 21H2. I was expecting to have to use one of your options but just downloading the ISO and running setup on it's own worked for me. No other intervention was required. Hope this helps anyone else that is in the same situation.
I recently bought a refurbished pc with Win 11 21H2 and wondered why it was not updating, turns out it has an unsupported cpu, however following your instructions I now have an up to date Win11 23H2 pc. Many thanks.
Awesome mate!! Your process was a lot straight forward than most I have seen since windows 11 was released. I am now a subscriber. Cheers
Vielen Dank für diese detaillierte Beschreibung für den upgrade auf 23H2. So kann ich den Kauf für ein neues Notebook hinauszögern! Mal schauen nächstes Jahr im Juni wenn Win12 im anmarsch sein wird.🤓
Thank you for such a straightforward workaround found nowhere else in the realm of CZcams or the world wide web except on your channel... Thank you
Thank you! The ISO option works perfectly. I just updated from Win 11 21h2 to 23h2 without any problem.
Worked great. Just did it . Now for your "simple" method of upgrading to Windows 12 🙂
We'll see when that comes :)
Thanks man, I was trying to update my win 11 21H2 to 23H2 for whole month in work, but only your tutorial was the right one, thank u again
Bruhhh!!! Thanks alot 🎉 i wasn't receiving updates when i was on 21H2🙏 Now im on 23H2
Man you are the best . I've tried many videos but nothing helped me i used 1 method and it worked i am now using Windows 11 23H2. Thanks Bro 😊
I just updated from 21h2 to 23h2 without an issue.
Thanks so much for the guidance
Thank you so much!!! the enabler option work for me. It took me less than 3 minutes following your tutorial. Thank you so much!
It worked for me! i upgraded from Win 11 21H2 to 23H2 on my "unsupported" PC without problems!
I just updated another 11 year old HP laptop to Windows 11 last night following your video after it was returned to me from my daughter after 2 years in her cupboard. I had tried the other day but it got stuck at 46% so I ended up doing a Windows 10 rest first. I've also updated my 13 year old HP laptop from 22H2 to 23H2 and in process of doing same with my Acer desktop. Your video was vert simple to follow and good to see no registry tweaking required, just editing a file. Thanks again.
Good to hear this helped :)
The delete file trick did the work. Thanks bro. You are amazing. 😂 Now, I don't have to do clean install to update new version.
I've been messing around trying to download 23H2 for a few weeks, trying different methods that are a lot more complicated than this but didn't work. I will try this option 2... if it works, which it appears to do, I want to thank you in advance!
🤗
wow so easy took like a few minutes with the first method , excellent thanks so much !
Glad it helped!
Very good details and easy to follow, I used Option 2 and worked flawlessly!!
Thank you the enablement method helped me update from 22H2 Windows 11 Pro to 23H2
Thank you very much!
Option 2 worked for me in my Dell Latitude E-5530, by deleting the files of the Appraiserres.dll
Very helpful video
Follow up to my previous post - (next one down) - Windows ver. 23H2 now installed! WORKS PERFECT! Even on a machine with only 3GB RAM and a 1.3 GHz AMD Processor!!!! Thanks Again!
thank you. i just update to 23h2 using your guide. its working.
the enabler worked!!!! I'm now on 23H2 thank you so much!!!!
The manual option worked like a charm.
It worked for me, thank you very much for your tutorial. Great job!!!
Thank you! It works. Windows 11 23H2. Thanks again
Thanks a lot dude! Your standalone feature worked.
You are awesome as always Sir!
Thanks 👍🏻
This video is great!, option 2 worked for me. Very well explained and I'm now on the latest 23H2. Thank you for this, subscribed.
you are the best ! I run on old Dell Optiplex 790 ! and was perfect super fast !
10:20 Wooow!!!! I'm surprise with how you tear down wall of appraiserres.dll :D :D :D - thanks I'm curious with 23H2 and now scheduling for upgrade.
Thank you, sir! Helped me a lot! Everything went just fine like in your video!
I have a fully supported system on 22H2 but wasn't seeing the 23H2 upgrade. I didn't have KB5031455 but I did have KB5032190. After installing the Enablement Update and restarting it successfully showed 23H2 in System > About and winver. Thank you! 😊
Same here - no 1455 update but had 2190. All 23H2 new features seemed to be working, although version still shown as 22H2, so installed 7397 enablement (sic) package and now showing 23H2 in System > About. PC (E-350) isn't used much, so must have missed 1455 before it was superseded by 2190. Excellent video and instructions.
worked perfectly for me with the enablement update
Thanks for the feedback, nice to hear.
@@jensdbe thank you for the advice!
Dit werkt perfect echt een aanrader
Thank you so much! This really helped me to finally update. Cause I was stuck at 21H2
Glad to hear it helped :)
Simple perfection! Thank you!
Many thanks worked great Very easy - 21H2 to 23H2 Unsupported Hardware. SUB ADDED
what a helpful guide!!! thx a lot!
Superb! Thank you so much
Worked like a charm, thank you
Great video! Worked first time!
The upgrade worked like a dream- in my case from w11 21h2 to 23h2. However despite giving it instructions to the contrary, files that were stored on my internal hard drive were deleted during the upgrade.
Holy Smackaroonies that was easy using your KB file. Thank you so much.
Glad to hear this helped. Enjoy 23H2 :)
Thanks so much, you just gained a new subscriber
Thank you very much!
When downloading the ISO from the Microsoft website choose the language you're currently using otherwise you won't get the option to retain your apps and files upon installation (upgrading). I just found that out. On my laptop it said the en-US language was the base language but the used language is NL, then when using the downloaded en-US ISO I didn't get the option to save apps and files. Only when I reran the procedure using the US International ISO everything went as shown in this video.
Brilliant . Worked to update my unsupported dell latitude E7270 laptop on Windows 11 22H2 to 23H2. No problems. Hope a similar workaround can be used for 24H2 later in the year ?
I'll follow up on that. Hope as well that it won't be too difficult
Thanks!
Thanks!
Just did it qs you explained. And thankfully it's working fine . Even though i already had every feature of 23h2 while using the 22h2 but still i can't find the copilot feature 😢. But thanks nicely done.
Copilot is not available worldwide yet.
I want to know what are the differences between 21H2 and 23H2 ?
I am still use 21H2 on 7rd intel CPU.
In my opinion, if rhere are no problems in this computer at this time, why we should update version ?
I wonder if I update to new version, the problems will arise.
Thank you. You're the best!
You're welcome! Thanks for the nice feedback
You are the real deal man
I am running an i5 6500 on a Dell Optiplex 7040 MT (bare bones) build, unsupported of course. Did this last spring and installed Windows 10 22H2 . Upgraded to Windows 11 22H2 after a couple of weeks using the RUFUS bypass. And today, followed your ISO File option, yet no unsupported window popped up and it just started downloading 23H2. Also, I read somewhere that KB5031455 is now the fully upgraded enablement package update, which I apparently already had. Anyhow, not complaining for sure, but I wonder why the upgrade worked so easy. It the RUFUS bypass permanent? Very informative videos. Be blessed.
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Thanks for the video and the link, it worked!👍👍
Glad it helped. Enjoy 23H2 :)
Well done although I had to rely on a support forum that said kb5031455 is optional and if it doesn't work then go to a specific place on the settings/update/[I think it was advanced] and delete that kb from the to-do list. That was between the first big download/install and the one that disables the hardware check. Finally, after many hours (several working days worth) of search and try and many "install - oh wait didn't work, reboot to remove" efforts which takes almost 2 hours at times and 3 reboots - I am up to 23H2. I have a socket 2011 with 64 GB of RAM so I have no pressing need to get a new system. I do SW development and that amount of RAM is plenty, but Microsoft's decision a couple of years ago was questionable (they should have announced it would happen 3-4 years in advance). I tried a TPM or two I got from Amazon but none worked with my MSI motherboard - if it had I wouldn't have had to read your posting, but I'm glad you did post it.😀
option 2 keep getting "we can't tell if ur pc is ready try restarting setup" after i hit accept button
Works great, thank you....
Thank you!!!! This helped me.
Thank you man! you save me :)
This doesn't seem to work anymore. After deleting content of the dll file and running setup, it says that Setup cannot check if my computer can run Windows 11 and to restart the setup.
-Edit : “Sorry, We’re Having Trouble Determining If Your PC can Run Windows 11”
Here's what I did to actually fix this:
1- Control Panel / Troubleshooting / Windows Update
2- DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
3- sfc /scannow
4- Reboot
After that the update worked like a charm.
Thank you for your video
thank you
i followed the tutorial but the update thing is not shown in windows update. Also, when running the setup exe on the modified iso, it does not do anything but quickly open and close a cmd window
I'm seeing the same thing. Cmd window opens and closes very quickly. One time it was a little slower and it seemed to say something about unsupported hardware. HELP!?!?
all is working only on the setup "restarting PC" then i get the error, "Windows 11 setup Error" how i fix that
fantastic
Thank you very much
Thanks for this perfect video
Thanks for the nice reply :)
I can't update from 21H2 to 23H2 no matter what I've tried several tutorials, but it always gives a blue screen when it starts preparing Windows to boot for the first time.
I found out that this happens because the computer I'm trying to install 23H2 on has a mechanical hard drive, and one of the requirements for 23H2 is specifically an SSD, not a mechanical hard drive I don't see anyone talking about this, so could you tell me if this is true?
The 21H2 installs normally without any issues, and from what I've seen, it seems that the 22H2 does too Only the 23H2 has this requirement
I'm experiencing error code 0x800700C1 - 0x40003 after klik setup at minute 11:06 , so there is no screen as shown on the minute 11:07, advice please
This doesn't work for my computer (21H2),at first it seems to be able to upgrade but at the last computer restart it undos changes and reverts back to 21H2,with error code 0x8007000D-0x2000C.
Sorry, we’re having trouble determining if your PC can run Windows 11‘ ..help me
good tutorial
good one
Great video thank you. I have used Rufus 4.4 to upgrade windows 11 23H2 from the iso of the windows 11 MS site. . On rufus 4.4 they will do the delete files of appraiserres.dll for you. or can do your method of doing deleted them manually.
It says this UPDATE is not applicable for your Computer on 22H2
THANKS !!! GREAT !!
yooo thx man!
i have windows 11 come with laptop its register windows and i have win 11 23 h2 upate available once its downlaod and install 100% later i check it show up again and its not installed and give me the error 0x800f081f
I am getting this error while downloading ISO
Error
We are unable to complete your request at this time. Some users, entities and locations are banned from using this service. For this reason, leveraging anonymous or location hiding technologies
This method is really work good but sir please tell me how to delete old windows folder in C drive
i am stuck at ( making sure your pc has enough space ) help me
Thank You :)
the update fails at 88% for some reason, from 21H2. 2 times in a row
✅ Lots of thanks ❤️ perfect working . Very easy method 🌹
good tutorial , but iam unable to see the copilot and the paint co creator option.
Copilot is not available everywhere (geographically) yet unfortunately. Not sure about paint but I believe that this is still in preview.
I haven't upgraded from Win 10 but thinking about it. I would be upgrading on my HP workstation which has all the needed hardware except CPU. On Microsoft page there is a workaround for installing Win 11 by adding a registry key, will that work for an upgrade that you are demonstrating here?
how much free space do i need to upgrade from 21h2 to 23h2?
I have installed a lot of stuff and downloaded a lot of data, its worth 1TB but I am having severe issues on Win 11 and can't upgrade to 23H2 either, was thinking of going back to Windows 10 until I saw this, will it retain my data? Talking about method #2
Does this add all the bloatware
I always like your presentations: clear and concise, and just work. However, this time I encountered a problem with setup.exe. The error message in the popup window is "Windows installation encountered an unexpected error. Error code: 0x800700C1 - ox40003"
I'll restart the machine and see if that makes any difference. I followed your instructions, and like the time before I was successful. This time going from 22000 21H2 to 23H2, I am running into this small snag.
My issue. I see now what mistake I made. I removed the contents of appraiser.dll, not appreaiserres.dll. Everything is proceeding according to plan now. Hopefully, someone else won't make this simple mistake.
Easy to make that mistake. Should've maybe put some more focus on that in the video.
As of 2/25/2024, your procedure doesn't work anymore. First, I'm running Windows 11 Pro 21H2 which I installed on unsupported hardware on 3/11/2022, and it's fully updated. I followed your steps to the letter;
1. Download the Windows 11 23H2 ISO (22H2 is no longer available to download).
2. I mount the ISO by double-clicking it.
3. I opened the 'sources' directory.
4. I double-clicked the 'appraiserres.dll' file, opened it in Wordpad, selected all the text, deleted it, saved and closed the file.
5. Next, I double-clicked setup.exe and it launched.
6. Next, I clicked the "Change how Setup downloads updates" link, clicked the "Not right now" radio button, and then click the 'Next' button.
7. At this point "Checking your PC" and "Getting things ready" appear briefly, and then "Applicable notices and license term" appears, and I click the 'Accept' button.
8. Next, the "Making sure you're ready" screen appears, and shortly after that, the "Windows 11 Setup" text appears, and directly below that a line of text appears that reads, "We can't tell if your PC is ready to continue installing Windows 11. Try restarting Setup."
The ONLY option on this screen is a "Close" button.
I've gone through this now about 15 times, and every time it ends exactly the same way. Obviously, something has changed in the Win11 setup.exe code that prevents installation. I assume Microsoft is catching on to the various hacks people are using to install Win11 on unsupported hardware, which isn't too surprising. Any ideas about this one?
You forgot the step where you need to copy all files from the mounted ISO to your Desktop (or other location). Otherwise you cannot save the changes to appraiserres.dll as a mountes ISO is read-only.
Hiliarious that it's only the contents of the dll and not even the dll itself.. Do you know if creating a USB image and then removing the contents of the dll also works for a clean installation?
As far as I know this does not work for a fresh install. You can use the following steps to do this though: czcams.com/video/7uY3cVxrLP8/video.html
I normally do use Rufus to install it, but I tried to install 23H1 imaged by Rufus on another piece of hardware and it wouldn't bypass the hw check, so that's why I wondered. I'm still okay installing 22H2 to get it on and running the 23H2 installer with blank apiraiserres.dll if that's what it takes.
At the end of the day, I just don't have the time to wipe and reinstall, but I couldn't resolve updates that refused to install no matter what DISM passes and SFC correcting any faults. Maddening. Anyhow, thanks a ton. This will get me to a point I have time to do it "properly" at a later time. :)
Thank you for this, unfortunately, In 'Choose what to keep', the only option is 'Nothing' on my Dell Optiples 5050 and Surface Pro. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
The reason why you can't keep your files should be at the bottom of that same window, what does it say?
Looks like I'm trying to install an older version of Windows. I'm starting again. Thanks for the reply!