{"id":186175,"date":"2022-03-21T11:03:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T10:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=186175"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:52:44","slug":"windows-11-watermark-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/windows-11-watermark-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 will now feature a watermark on unsupported devices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Windows 11<\/a> shipped to new devices with greater hardware requirements than its predecessor. While this came as a shock to many users, the decision to increase the OS\u2019s capabilities<\/strong> and performance with these stricter requirements make sense, given Microsoft\u2019s recent increased interest in high-performance gaming. Most notably, the new OS requires at the very least an 8th generation processor<\/strong> in addition to Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0) to be present in your device. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there are ways around these stricter requirements, Microsoft has, with perfect clarity, made its position on the use of unsupported hardware known. The next update of Windows 11 is even expected to ship with a watermark<\/strong> alerting users that their hardware doesn\u2019t support the use of Windows 11<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This watermark has featured as an A\/B test component<\/strong> in the latest versions of the Windows Insider program and is expected to become a standard feature across Windows 11 devices in the next major update. The watermark is expected to appear above the clock at the bottom right-hand side of the refreshed Windows 11 taskbar<\/strong> and reads \u2018System requirements not met. Go to Settings to learn more.\u2019 Should users heed the warning and open their Windows 11 Settings app, they will be greeted by an additional warning under the System banner. The \u2018System requirements not met\u2019 notification will repeat here, with a link to \u2018learn more.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main reason Microsoft doesn\u2019t condone using Windows 11 on an unsupported device is that it simply cannot provide the necessary support for said device. Unsupported devices don\u2019t meet the requirements<\/strong> to run Windows 11; therefore, there are not devices the Microsoft team is likely to roll out support for. There is no wisdom in dedicating resources to developing support structures for devices not designed to run the operating system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These support structures include safety protocols, antivirus and malware safeguards<\/strong>, and general system updates. Windows 11 also engages in far more information transfers and processes than Windows 10, meaning if your CPU is not up to the task, it could overheat, and you could lose your processor completely<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are cases in which your system simply isn\u2019t supported but does potentially meet the hardware requirements. In these rare cases, you should be well within your system\u2019s capabilities to run Windows 11 smoothly. Do your research to find out what processor you have and whether it and your GPU and any other critical components can support Windows 11 before you make the choice to follow a guide and bypass both the installation errors and the watermarks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Windows 11 is an incredibly advanced operating system, and it represents the future of computing integration. If you’re having issues with movement, you can check how to increase cursor speed on Windows 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Windows 11 shipped to new devices with greater hardware requirements than its predecessor. While this came as a shock to many users, the decision to increase the OS\u2019s capabilities and performance with these stricter requirements make sense, given Microsoft\u2019s recent increased interest in high-performance gaming. Most notably, the new OS requires at the very least … Continue reading “Windows 11 will now feature a watermark on unsupported devices”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9222,"featured_media":186180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[3149],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-186175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-11"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324222,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186175\/revisions\/324222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186175"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=186175"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=186175"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=186175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}