Any way to bypass Windows 10 upgrade compatibility check?

GotNoRice

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I have a bunch of Windows 7 computers at an office that all use a Radeon X1300. That card is preventing upgrades to Windows 10 now because it's apparently "not compatible" with Windows 10.

Testing one of the systems, I simply removed the X1300 card, put in a newer card, did the Windows 10 upgrade, put the X1300 back in, and then manually installed the newest available Windows 7 driver. Everything works great.

Rather than having to swap out each card in each system just to do the upgrade, is there any way I can simply bypass the compatibility check instead? Especially since I know the card will work just fine... These computers are just for basic web browsing and word processing anyway.
 
Try adding this to the registry in Windows 7:

Find the following key
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/WindowsUpdate/OSUpgrade

and add a 32-bit DWORD called AllowOSUpgrade and set it to a value of 1.
 
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