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Windows 10 Extended Security Updates

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Windows 10 support ends this week. You can sign up for extended security updates, as explained here:

https://windowsread.me/p/free-security-updates-for-windows-10


 
Posted : 10/10/2025 12:34 pm
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That was handy to know, thanks


 
Posted : 10/10/2025 12:44 pm
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The EPIC amount of work people do to not just run Linux 😀


 
Posted : 10/10/2025 1:20 pm
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Posted by: xora

The EPIC amount of work people do to not just run Linux

Some people like things to work without "simply edit this config file and recompile"


 
Posted : 10/10/2025 1:36 pm
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Free in the EEA.  Another Brexit benefit.


 
Posted : 10/10/2025 1:47 pm
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Incidentally, I have another method but I probably can't talk about it here.  PM me if you want details or, better yet, catch me on the socials if you know who I am there.

 

Posted by: xora

The EPIC amount of work people do to not just run Linux 😀

The EPIC amount of work Linux users put in to troll every thread that mentions a different OS.


 
Posted : 10/10/2025 1:50 pm
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Posted by: Cougar

Incidentally, I have another method but I probably can't talk about it here.

Does it involve Linux or buying a Mac? Or, "I can do everything on my iPad?"


 
Posted : 10/10/2025 2:32 pm
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"Free in the EEA. Another Brexit benefit"

Free in the UK. I just enrolled for a year of updates in about 5 clicks. 


 
Posted : 10/10/2025 2:39 pm
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I was able to update our old family laptop on Home edition but not my son's which has a version of Pro installed?  Any idea of a way around this? 


 
Posted : 10/10/2025 2:47 pm
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To enroll I think I need a Microsoft account, which I don't have.

I can sign up but will my world implode if I do? I seem to have managed without one until now.


 
Posted : 10/10/2025 2:49 pm
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Posted by: kormoran

I seem to have managed without one until now.

"Until" is an important word in that sentence.


 
Posted : 10/10/2025 3:04 pm
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So far I've managed to turn 4 Windows 10 laptops that can't run Windows 11 into 4 laptops that are running Windows 11 without any problems. 


 
Posted : 10/10/2025 3:09 pm
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I've got a couple of old Windows 10 laptops I use most days and I was thinking I needed to do something about them.  Thanks to this thread they're both enrolled in the 12 month support extension.

Thanks for that!

I sort of hope they conk out before I need to go through the palaver that Professor Hobo helpfully outlined above.  I'm happy with what I've got now.


 
Posted : 10/10/2025 4:55 pm

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