Windows 10 support ends in a year . . .

[Centigrade32]

7 minutes ago, KhunHeineken said:

What new links?  There have been no links. 

 

I bump a thread asking has anyone upgraded to Windows 11 recently, but more specifically late November / early December, and if so, did they sill get the 12-2025 Cumulative Update?   Simple question really.

 

It was then followed by trolling because it's too unbearable to think Microsoft will discover and patch out the work arounds, retrospectively, which they have already done for some methods.  How long before they get around to the Rufus method?  I was just wondering if they were already there.  

 

Nice meeting you ☺️ Goodbye.

[KhunHeineken]

1 minute ago, Centigrade32 said:

 

Nice meeting you ☺️ Goodbye.

Happy New Year. 

[Mutt Daeng]

9 hours ago, KhunHeineken said:

What new links?  There have been no links. 

 

I bump a thread asking has anyone upgraded to Windows 11 recently, but more specifically late November / early December, and if so, did they sill get the 12-2025 Cumulative Update?   Simple question really.

 

It was then followed by trolling because it's too unbearable to think Microsoft will discover and patch out the work arounds, retrospectively, which they have already done for some methods.  How long before they get around to the Rufus method?  I was just wondering if they were already there.  

When you say 12-2025 Cumulative Update, do you mean 12-2024?

[orchidfan]

On 10/17/2024 at 9:04 PM, johng said:

Doom I think is my all time favourite retro game... I played it when it was the newest cutting edge state of the art masterpiece ( it still is a masterpiece)

with a soundblaster card and set of speakers or headphones  made for some jump out of your set hair-raising moments..I loved it so much I bought the I and II box set

on 3.5 inch "floppy discs"

It was great, but gave one of my kids (then) nightmares....so he was banned from playing it....but it didn't affect the girls who loved it!

[orchidfan]

On 10/19/2024 at 12:13 AM, GypsyT said:

The trick is to buy slightly used from known nerd who has re-programmed junk out.

 

I did that ( $ 2500 laptop for $450 cash) and it works pretty well except EDGE sheeet uses lot of RAM and you can't delete nor stop it. It over heats now and then.

I only use Firefox and very little Chrome.

I miss Win98SE.

 

I still have the original installation  disks.( floppies and cd's) for Win 3.1, 3.11. Win 95, 98SE, XP Professional, Vista, etc.

 

Still have XP on an old desktop....still runs fine, except for the various browser warnings to upgrade the OS !

 

Win 10 HOME (ver. 22H2), Avira anti virus and Surfshark VPN.

Think I'll just stick with that.

Too old to start learning Linux (tried it a couple of years ago....urghhhh.

[transam]

W10 can be Windows covered for a further 3 years, which you must buy for each year, think the first year is $30...

Opatch will take care of things when W10 finishes too, I have the trial on my PC now, though they want a fee for the Pro version, I will wait and see if it can be got for free.....

[orchidfan]

One of the more interesting and technically informative topics and posts (apart from the totally avoidable back and forth bickering that occured at the end) that I have read in recent times

 

RIP Udonjoe.

 

Most enlightening for an old "baby boomer" , running Win 10 on a Lenovo laptop AND Win XP Pro on a desktop.

 

Don't think any upgrades in hardware or Software are called for, because if Win 10 keeps working as long as Win XP has, then it'll probably outlive me !

[KhunHeineken]

14 hours ago, Mutt Daeng said:

When you say 12-2025 Cumulative Update, do you mean 12-2024?

Yes.  Apologies.  The 12-2024 Cumulative Update.  

 

I did read Microsoft either were allowing, or couldn't stop, the upgrades to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, but they may have been able to stop updates to unofficial upgrades on unsupported hardware.  

[GypsyT]

I remember when AOL (America On Line) was the biggest and had 4 (!) choices to get into The Net 🙂

 

[KhunHeineken]

9 hours ago, GypsyT said:

I remember when AOL (America On Line) was the biggest and had 4 (!) choices to get into The Net 🙂

 

It's an interesting decision by Microsoft. 

 

As I have said before, it's possible Windows 11 becomes the least used Windows OS in history, due to their decision not to allow it to run on what they deem to be hardware not suitable to them. 

[Mike0375]

I personally don't want Windows 11 AI features on my computer so I just installed Windows 10 "LTSC". It should have 2 more years of official security updates from MS.

[KhunHeineken]

On 2/7/2025 at 8:33 AM, Mike0375 said:

I personally don't want Windows 11 AI features on my computer so I just installed Windows 10 "LTSC". It should have 2 more years of official security updates from MS.

I considered this.  Are are you finding it?  Is it genuine LTSC?  If so, where did you pick up the license? 

[riclag]

Any updates on buying the win10 esu for $ 30 ! I spent a considerable amount of time trying to find how to  subscribe! With no luck.

 

I just need the 1 year  extension to cover security updates until I purchase a new laptop in the States next year.

[topt]

For anyone looking for a longer solution to keep Windows 10 (2032!) then perhaps look at this supposedly legal option - as long as you are happy not to have a few things -

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They are not quite the same as the ordinary consumer editions of Windows 10. They don't include the Windows Store or any "modern" apps. Apart from the Edge browser, they have almost nothing else: no OneDrive, no Weather or Contacts apps, and no Windows Mail or whatever it's called this week. For this vulture, all these things sound like significant advantages, although you may disagree. They do include the usual Windows Defender antivirus, though, and the classic accessories such as Notepad and Wordpad.

 

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/22/windows_10_ltsc/

 

https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links

 

I just wish I had known about it before as it would have saved me the trouble of getting rid of a lot of stuff