Microsoft has blocked Windows 7 and 8.1 users with an Intel 7th-Gen or AMD Ryzen processor from updating their operating systems.<\/p>\n
The company said Windows 10 will be the only supported Windows platform for the newest range of Intel and AMD processors – although the Intel chips still functioned with older versions of the operating system at launch (after a bit of tweaking<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n Users with a 7th-Gen\u00a0or Ryzen processor who attempt to scan for or download updates are greeted with an error message:<\/p>\n Unsupported Hardware. Your PC uses a processor that isn\u2019t supported on this version of Windows and you won\u2019t receive updates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Users may also receive an unknown error message when attempting to search for updates on an older version of Windows.<\/p>\n According to Microsoft’s support<\/strong><\/a> page, the error message is a result of the Windows 10 support policy.<\/p>\n Microsoft recommends that users who encounter this message resolve the issue by upgrading to Windows 10.<\/p>\n Microsoft has blocked Windows 7 and 8.1 users with an Intel 7th-Gen or AMD Ryzen processor from updating their operating systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36584,40218,807,35787],"class_list":["post-203140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-kaby-lake","tag-ryzen","tag-windows","tag-windows-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203150,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203140\/revisions\/203150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Microsoft adds OneDrive adverts to Windows 10 File Explorer<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"