micwoj92
commented
3 years ago Thanks for the detailed report, could you report separate issues separately so it will be easier to track see what's done? For example one issue with "/silent doesn't silent the "not supported" alert when running on Windows 11", second with "add timeout after x seconds", third with "disk check failure when running WinPE" and so on. Thanks in advance.
edit: oh, I see Robert already assigned this, I still think it'd be easier.
PicoMitchell
rcmaehl
Once Windows 11 is released, I would like to be able to run WhyNotWin11 in WinPE during our refurbishment process to determine if a computer should get the Windows 11 WIM image or the Windows 10 WIM image installed onto it.
WhyNotWin11 appears to run fine in WinPE, but is not able to determine "DirectX + WDDM2". I'm assuming this is because there are no graphics drivers installed yet. That it continues to show "Checking…" for this row in the GUI is not that bad, but I am wanting to run this silently with an export and analyze the export with no user intervention to determine if Windows 11 can be installed.
When I try to do a silent export, nothing ever gets created. I am assuming that this may be because the process is hanging in the background waiting to be able to determine the "DirectX + WDDM2" status. If I check TaskMgr, I can see my multiple WhyNotWin11 executable attempts still running with no exports created after multiple minutes.
I'm thinking it would be useful to add some timeout to this check to give up after some reasonable time (and go ahead and create the export with an "Unknown" value in this field or something so the other fields can be checked). Or if its possible to determine that the drivers aren't installed so the check can't be performed to skip it promptly (that would be even better and faster).
For my usage in WinPE, I am really only wanting to confirm UEFI, CPU, RAM, and TPM. TPM is easy enough to check on my own without using WhyNotWin11, but since the CPU check is more complicated, using WhyNotWin11 would be handy.
WhyNotWin11 is going to fail other checks in WinPE since it's detecting the RAM disk as the boot disk which will fail Disk Partition Type and Storage Available, but that's ok because I know that our actual internal drives will be large enough and I will be formatting them correctly in code. We will also allow Windows 11 installations without Secure Boot enabled since it won't be possible to enable when network booting, but I will add checks in the full OS to force the technician to enable it after the installation is complete.
Thank you so much for WhyNotWin11! I think it's going to be extremely useful for determining Windows 11 compatibility silently and seamlessly before installations in WinPE during our refurbishment process!