My AMD CPU Phenom II x4 955 is sse4a and will support 24H2
The original document was created on a computer with Microsoft Office and we wanted to add something on another computer without Microsoft Office so we installed Libre Office and screwed all colors and graphics. So it is not 100% compatible to Microsoft Office, no matter what they want you to believe. It is a substitute, not the real thing.
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Try WPS Office -- it's far more compatible and is also FREE.
My phenom II x4 will run 24H2 as it has sse4a which does include popcntHa, a mere youngster - only born in Q2 '13....
What's with all these i-numbers? Them's powerful CPUs
You may be surprised (well, I was, at least) just how humble a processor and how far back you can go and still find a '24H2-capable' CPU. The oldest I have in working machines (still in regular use) are a Pentium B950 (Q2 '11) and an AMD V120 (Q2 '10).
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It was bought standalone instead of full office (even though they were the same price) as at the time I didn't have a lot of storage space for full office and didn't really need it. I occasionally used to use the Microsoft tool for opening an excel file but rarely received them. I sometimes install Libre office for opening spreadsheets. But have full office on my main laptop.also worth mentioning, but when you login to your MS account you can run a web based version of Word and Excel for free that handle the vast majority of basic features that most people use.
The problem with the free versions is that they may be fine when generating new documents (albeit limited features), but they are not so useful when trying to edit files generated by other users with more advanced features.
I wouldn't be so sure about it!!! One thing is to bypass the "artificial" requirements imposed by Microsoft for version 23H2, but the damn POPCOUNT instruction requirement is a completely different thing since the new "Germanium" kernel won't even boot without it!!! At best, some "non-critical" features could perhaps be ported from 24H2 to 23H2, but I don't see many chances of something bigger happening!!!
I couldn't have said it better!!! I have a basic Office 365 subscription and it costs me less than two cans of beer a month!!!
It's not the price (yet) that's the bother --it's the whole subscription thing -- these can mount up insidiously so it's not unusual to see people with as many as 20 odd subscriptions for all sorts of junk / services I suppose they never even realized the had -- especially those trial things that you have to explicitly cancel.
That's why I suggested it MIGHT be possible to make it work if you swap the relevant kernel files with the 23H2 ones. I don't know exactly which these are, but I guess
ntoskrnl.exe, winload.exe or winloadx.exe all found in C:\Windows\System32 folder. Of course there is a great chance to damage Windows by replacing these files and never load again unless repaired, so I would make a backup of the original 24H2 files before replacing and most important I would first try that on a virtual machine so if anything happens I just delete it.
Agree. These £5 a months add up. We currently have £9 a month netflix, £8 a month for Which, £9 a month for idrive, 3 mobile phone contracts. All of which I think are worth it for our situation but there's a limit to how many subscriptions you can pay when counting pennies.
Not really necessary.
Actually, you probably didn't need to do that, though it cannot hurt to be prepared. When a new Feature Update is about to be released Windows Update will quietly check that your PC meets the compatibility requirements and store the results in the Registry. Only if it passes all the checks (indicated by RedReason 'None') will you be offered the Feature Update. This is why unsupported devices never see Feature Updates offered in Windows Update.
It never occurred to me to test this when I had my old non-compatible Windows 11 test computer.
Unfortunately it's not that simple. The RedReason is just a top level summary of the reason(s) it is incompatible. There are multiple other indicators in that key for each individual check. Here's another example that failed on CPU, TPM, and a Legacy bios. This particular laptop is also going to fail on PopCnt when it gets round to doing the GE24H2 test.
