If you have a custom-built PC or a machine that was sold without Windows 10, chances are excellent that your CPU has an embedded TPM. This applies to all desktop versions of Windows 10 (Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education). If you bought your machine with Windows 10 in the past five years, it has a TPM: all new or updated devices must come with an enabled TPM 2.0 as of July 28, 2016, as stated in the Windows 10 minimum hardware requirements. Why Your Machine (Almost Certainly) Has a TPM Windows 10 TPM Requirement for OEMs This article explains why your machine almost certainly has a TPM, how to check the TPM status and how to enable the TPM that comes with your CPU. It’s also possible that your TPM version is below 1.2, in which case it won’t show up in the TPM Management tool.The recent Windows 11 announcement has created a lot of confusion due to the requirement for a trusted platform module (TPM). Quite often, TPM is disabled in BIOS out of the box, so you should check there to see if you have a toggle. The TPM cannot be found error does not necessarily mean that you don’t have a TPM chip in your PC. If you see the text “Compatible TPM cannot be found…”.Under the “Specification Version” text you’ll see your TPM version, which in our case is 2.0. If you see this text, it means that you have a TPM chip and it’s enabled on your device. Check the status column for “The TPM is ready for use”.Press Windows + R to open the Run dialog, then type “tpm.msc” into the “Open” box. This will quickly tell you whether you have a TPM chip, if it’s enabled, and what version it is. Though it’s rarely seen by the average user, a Windows 10 TPM tool is included in the OS. So, how can you check if your PC has a TPM chip? By following one of the sections below: How to Check if Your PC has TPM with the TPM Management Tool It’s also instrumental in two key Windows tools – Windows Hello and BitLocker. Rooting the cryptography in hardware makes it all but impossible for attackers to tamper with and access this data, protecting against malware, ransomware, and sophisticated nation-state attacks. It acts as a cryptographic processor and offers a hardware-based approach to generating hashes and storing cryptographic keys, biometric data, user data, and more. Essentially, TPM is a security module typically soldered onto the motherboard in the form of a chip.
TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module, which may not mean much to you alone.
But what is a TPM chip, and how can you tell if you have one? We’re going to explore that today. If you’ve been keeping up with Windows news, you will have heard a lot about TPM, in particularly TPM 2.0, which Microsoft listed as a requirement for Windows 11.
1 How to Check if Your PC has TPM with the TPM Management Tool.
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