Submitted 4 months ago by Kolanaki@pawb.social to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
I was hoping it was just gonna stop annoying me every 12-36 hours.
Just going out on a limb, but with windows 11 being so similar to 10, it would make sense to continue to port updates over to 10 that are fully compatible. That being said, feature updates are over.
If you opted into ESU, those would be the security updates that you opted to receive.
What are the updates? Is it Windows getting the update, or Windows defender/programs that use windows update for updates?
As far as I’m aware even windows 7’s windows defender still gets updates.
The one that popped up prompting the question is a security update for the OS.
bleepingcomputer.com/…/microsoft-windows-10-kb507…
Looks like there’s an issue installing the extended support updates should you subscribe to it. So it makes sense to just give everyone the update.
because.
C O N T I N U U M
Are you in Europe and do you have a Microsoft account configured? Them you’d receive updates until 10/26.
Does Windows update (not) show that there’s no longer any support?
Nope. US. Don’t even use the login system at all.
Pro or Enterprise? Or even better, Enterprise IoT LSTC? The latter is going to get security updates until 2032.
And those enrolled ($61) in the Extended Security Updates program get one more year of security support (not feature updates), and the various Enterprise versions will continue to get updates for up to another seven years, depending on the version.
Microsoft didn’t stop updating Windows 10 and they won’t for quite some time. They’re simply no longer offering those updates to most users of the consumer versions of Windows.
Windows Update can also hand you updates to your drivers independent of the support status of your copy of Windows. For instance, if you install a copy of Windows 7 even today it will still pull driver files from Microsoft.
You can turn them off you know.
Except Microsoft will randomly decide the updates are critical and force install them anyways. I literally switched to Linux because Microsoft kept force installing an update that would lock up my PC until I reverted to a recovery. I tried everything I could to disable them, disabling updates, delaying updates, marking the network as metered, editing the registry to disable updates, etc. Some of those worked for awhile, but in the end, as long as the PC was connected to the Internet eventually Microsoft would start installing the update again making the computer unusable.
Been on Linux ever since.
This is incorrect. You can turn them off…
pyria@kbin.melroy.org 4 months ago
Did you get something that is along the lines of Microsoft saying you can extend one year of support? Because I remember getting that before I reinstalled my windows, like it was backed to October 2026 or something.