End of Windows 10
brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date Status Member Last intervention -
Hello, Windows 10 will stop on October 14, 2025, but Microsoft has decided to continue free updates for 3 years. For me, that’s great. Will it happen automatically or do I need to take some action? Thank you.
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Hello,
Windows 10 ESU Program (Consumer Extended Security Updates) - Microsoft Support
- Information about purchasing Extended Security Updates (ESU) for organizations of all sizes, as previously announced in April this year and, for the first time, an ESU option for consumers, available for a one-year option at $30.
- https://blogs-windows-com.translate.goog/windowsexperience/2024/10/31/how-to-prepare-for-windows-10-end-of-support-by-moving-to-windows-11-today/?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=sc
Install Windows 11 on a non-compatible PC (without TPM or SecureBoot) - malekal.com
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Hello @papounette_5352 StatusMember.
You need to sign up for the ESU program https://support.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows/windows-10-programme-esu.
bazfile
Moderator/Security Contributor.
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Hello, thank you for replying but I don’t understand. I can’t find anywhere to register for ESU. Yet, I meet all the required criteria to do so. I went to my last update; but there is nothing. Is there something I missed? I have Microsoft as the administrator. Still nothing. I must have skipped an episode. Thank you.
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Hello,
I fail to see the interest, the ESU allows you to delay for a better leap for a year, and then?
I have no intention of using it, and this is the case for many people for various reasons (because they do not want to migrate to Windows 11, or cannot) who will continue like me to use Windows 10 with healthy behavior and third-party security software, as it is still somewhat the case for Windows 7.
With that aside, the registration is materialized by the proposal made automatically in Windows Update as soon as the required conditions mentioned in the link in <2> are met.
I also do not have it, the fact that I run Windows 10 in a virtual machine (which does not prevent updates) and that I do not have a Microsoft account (the documentation states that Microsoft does not discriminate and only asks for the Microsoft account login if it is not open, they have no other means to know it does not exist) does not seem to have any relation.
So we are, perhaps like for some updates, subject to the will of Microsoft who makes this registration link available during different chronological periods to different groups of users.
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Thank you for your input, but it doesn't provide me with the solution to continue without issues on Windows 10.
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Hello,
Do you have that link that's in my reply above?
The best thing is to upgrade to Windows 11!
So yes, I have seen it, but having a laptop that still works well, I can't install Windows 11. Moreover, I am a 74-year-old person and I'm not very skilled with computers. But why, having all the requested elements, is ESU not displayed on my computer? Even my daughter doesn't understand. If I continue without protection, what will happen in terms of security? Can I revert to Windows 7 without any problems? It’s really complicated for me. Thank you anyway for answering me.
On ESU which lasts only a year, I stated in <4> that it is not offered to me either, with the question remaining as to whether Microsoft will do it later (processing users in chronological batches) or not at all, and of course with no way to know when and why.
Going back to Windows 7 makes no sense: it implies that the PC originally came with Windows 7, otherwise we cannot be sure that it has Windows 7 drivers, and we will have to format the disk to do so... and install a system whose security updates are not taking place in October 2025 but took place in January 2020.
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There are no options other than transitioning to Windows 11 when possible, knowing that in a relatively limited number of cases, some older software or peripherals (printers) will no longer be compatible with Windows 11.
Windows 11 itself has security vulnerabilities, some of which are patched every month, with nothing being said about what happens before these patches or, of course, about vulnerabilities that have yet to be discovered or addressed.
In the presence of third-party security software and with healthy behavior, the security risk related to vulnerabilities is theoretical to some extent (when an operating system becomes really too old like XP, nothing can be patched anymore) not only because security patches (often more than 150 per month, just that...) usually pertain to specific situations but also because an individual has no reason to be the target of targeted attacks.
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