The consumer 11th-gen laptop (left) uses Intel’s embedded TPM, while the business-focused 8th-gen laptop (right) features a discrete TPM. While support for the TPM on a 7-year-old PC to run Windows 11 is going to cause hand-wringing for the next six months, even newer PCs can have troubles. Open Control Panel and navigate to System and Security and BitLocker Drive Encryption. Or right click the hard drive you want to encrypt and select ‘Turn BitLocker on’.įor example, on an 8th-gen Core i7 PC, we found the TPM support in its default state of “discrete”-which, as with most consumer desktops, means ‘off,’ because there was no optional TPM module installed. Select ‘Turn BitLocker on’ to begin the setup wizard. This throws up a flag in Microsoft’s Windows 11 requirement check, saying you need a TPM 2.0 is enabled. As we said, that means you either go out and buy the appropriate TPM module and plug it into the header, or you simply flip on the firmware TPM already built in the 8th-gen CPU. On this particular motherboard, it means flipping it from discrete to firmware.ĭepending on the motherboard or laptop maker, finding this setting will vary. In this motherboard, for example, it’s just called TPM. Right-Click on the Trusted Platform Module 2.0 Click Update Driver. In some motherboards it’s called Intel Platform Trusted Technology (PTT). Click Search Automatically for updated Driver version. Click Search for updated driver version on Windows Update.

The best description of just what a TPM is comes from Microsoft: 'Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technology is designed to provide hardware-based, security-related functions.

Select the TPM module driver from the Driver Update list and click Download and Install. TPM 2.0 (also referred to as your security processor) Secure boot enabled DEP UEFI MAT Your device meets the requirements for enhanced hardware security This means that in addition to meeting all the requirements of standard hardware security, your device also has memory integrity turned on. To find it, you’ll have to root around through the UEFI of your PC to turn it on.

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