help Disabling TPM after enabling

[Yishai]

I enabled the tpm module built into my CPU  (i5-9600k) a while ago, since I wanted to update my PC to win 11. however I ended up not doing it and as of now I’m not planning to.

Disabling it will do anything to my files or OS? I haven’t encrypted any of my disks.

I couldn’t find a definitive answer.

thanks in advance.

[Eigenvektor]

As long as you haven't stored any secrets in the TPM (e.g. for disk encryption) disabling it shouldn't have any negative effects. Any secrets stored in the TPM will be gone, but if there are none stored in it to begin with, there's nothing to lose. That being said, there's no real reason to disable it either, unless you want to prevent future updates to Windows 11.

[Yishai]

Just now, Eigenvektor said:

As long as you haven't stored any secrets in the TPM (e.g. for disk encryption) disabling it shouldn't have any negative effects. Any secrets stored in the TPM will be gone, but if there are none stored in it to begin with, there's nothing to lose. That being said, there's no real reason to disable it either, unless you want to prevent future updates to Windows 11.

I’m reinstalling windows 10 on a new ssd and I don’t want any extra variables if you know what I mean