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Thanks so much! That fixed it!

Agreed, and one more thing—make sure you’ve got enough free space on your system drive, sometimes that’s the sneaky culprit.

Agreed. Also, make sure to save and exit the BIOS properly, or the setting won't stick.

Worked perfectly, thank you!

I’ve been customizing my new MSI laptop with Windows 11, and there’s this ‘Cancel’ button that won’t go away. I’ve tried closing the program and even restarting, but it’s stuck on my desktop. It’s like a ghost window—I can click other things behind it, but the button just sits there. How do I ...

Agreed. Yeah, and after you enable those, you might also need to switch your boot drive from Legacy/CSM to UEFI mode in the BIOS.

Agreed, a BIOS update can sometimes help. Also, if you're still stuck, you can try the registry edit workaround to bypass the CPU check.

Can confirm. I had the same problem with that error. What finally worked for me was creating a full system image backup to an external drive using the Windows 7 Backup tool—it's still in Windows 10 and saved everything. Hope that helps.

Ugh, spent all night trying to force Win11 on my PC. Kept hitting the same stupid wall.

The installer just says: "This PC doesn't meet the minimum system requirements." Yeah, no kidding! My CPU is a Pentium G4560. It runs everything fine, but apparently it's not on some secret "approved" list from ...