The smart guys who were circumventing the specific hardware requirements of Windows 11 will no longer be able to "hide".
So much ink was spilled shortly before the release of Microsoft's latest operating system that you're bound to be aware of it: Windows 11 has hardware requirements that are draconian to say the least. Indeed, you need an eighth-generation Intel Core processor(Coffee Lake, 2017) or a second-generation AMD Ryzen(Zen+, 2018) to be able to install the OS as well as a so-called trusted platform module 2.0 chip. This second option is already restrictive to say the least, but the first excludes generations of processors that are still quite capable in terms of performance.
Of course, some curious users wanted to try Microsoft's OS, even if their machine was not quite up to scratch. Not surprisingly, various ways have been found by clever people to get around Microsoft's hardware requirements and, in the end, it is not very difficult to install Windows 11, even if the PC is theoretically "incompatible". Until now, Microsoft had more or less turned a blind eye, but we knew that it had a "little something" in its cartons for these "indelicate" users.
A little something that takes the form of a message placed directly on the Windows desktop. This message appears as a watermark over the wallpaper you have chosen and, as Windows Latest tells us, simply says: " system requirements not met ", which roughly means " system requirements are not met ". A message that appears after the deployment of the Windows 11 update of January 2023 and that seems to have no other impact than this small visual/aesthetic inconvenience. Not sure that this is enough to convince the "indelicate".
Even less sure that a manipulation, finally very simple, exists to remove this message in watermark. The Make Us Of site details the process which starts by opening the regedit software via the execution box (Win + R) and entering regedit before pressing the "OK" button. All you have to do is follow the guide.
- In the registry editor, you should reach the navigation point specified below.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\UnsupportedHardwareNotificationCache
- On the right panel, right click on "SV2" and choose "Edit".
- In the "Value Data" field, simply enter "0" (the number zero).
- Click the "OK" button to confirm the change.
- Close the registry editor and restart the PC so that the changes take effect.
If by any chance you cannot find the previously mentioned navigation point, it may simply not be created yet. To do this, simply go to the next higher navigation path.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel
There, right-click on "Control Panel" in the left panel and choose "New > Key" from the context menu that appears. A new key is added in the right panel, just rename it to "SV2" and then check the steps previously mentioned with one nuance: the "Value data" must be replaced by "2" (the number two). Again, when you restart the machine, you should no longer see the watermark. Note, however, that with each new update of Windows 11, it is quite possible that the watermark will reappear: you will then have to repeat this little guide to get rid of it again.
