Microsoft has added a brand new safeguard maintain blocking Home windows 11 upgrades for Home windows 10 prospects who do not import their Web Explorer 11 (IE11) knowledge into Microsoft Edge earlier than making an attempt to put in the most recent Home windows model.
“After upgrading to Home windows 11, saved info and knowledge from Web Explorer 11 (IE11) won’t be accessible in the event you didn’t settle for to import it into Microsoft Edge earlier than the improve,” Microsoft defined within the Home windows well being dashboard.
“To safeguard your improve expertise, we’ve got utilized a compatibility maintain on gadgets affected by this problem to forestall them from putting in or being provided Home windows 11.”
The brand new compatibility maintain impacts solely Home windows 10 methods the place IE11 is the principle net browser or is about because the default browser.
Beginning in the present day, it will routinely block impacted Home windows gadgets from being provided or putting in Home windows 11.
This new safeguard maintain mustn’t have an effect on prospects who’ve already imported their IE11 info into Microsoft Edge earlier than hitting the Home windows 11 improve button.
Repair coming by way of Microsoft Edge replace
Redmond says it is presently engaged on a repair for this identified problem, delivered with a future Microsoft Edge replace.
“The problem ought to be resolved for gadgets that haven’t but upgraded and gadgets which have already upgraded to Home windows 11 with out accepting to import IE11 knowledge into Edge,” Microsoft added.
Earlier than making use of this safeguard maintain, Microsoft eliminated 4 different improve blocks, the final one in March:
IE11 desktop app shall be retired in June
In March, Microsoft has reminded Home windows prospects that Web Explorer 11 will lastly be retired from some Home windows 10 variations in June to get replaced with the brand new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge.
After retiring Web Explorer, Microsoft will nonetheless present help for legacy Web Explorer-based web sites and apps inside Microsoft Edge by way of the built-in Web Explorer mode (IE mode) characteristic.
As soon as retired on June 15, 2022, the Web Explorer desktop app shall be disabled and it’ll routinely redirect the customers to Microsoft Edge.
You’ll be able to be taught extra about Edge’s IE mode and learn how to transition to the brand new Microsoft Edge by studying this Getting Began information.
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