Has anyone yet received their invitation to register for the ESU programme. I await mine and am registered with a MS a/c and 1000 reward points. I hate to look daily for it to appear and would welcome anyone to tell me the expected date. Thanks.
Windows 10 ESU
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I don't think you get an invitation, you do it via the Windows Update page in the Settings app:
support.microsoft.com
It says they are rolling it out in phases, if you don't see it yet there is no urgency to enrol. You likely need to be logged in to your Microsoft Account to see the option, if you're using a local account and don't want to change to your Microsoft Account then perhaps try creating a second user account on your computer, log that in to your Microsoft Account and then do the activation via that. The ESU is for valid for the computer, so you can just go back to using your regular account after doing that.
Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program - Microsoft Support
support.microsoft.com
It says they are rolling it out in phases, if you don't see it yet there is no urgency to enrol. You likely need to be logged in to your Microsoft Account to see the option, if you're using a local account and don't want to change to your Microsoft Account then perhaps try creating a second user account on your computer, log that in to your Microsoft Account and then do the activation via that. The ESU is for valid for the computer, so you can just go back to using your regular account after doing that.
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I think Christoper Barnatt mentioned the date the ESU invitations are sent out in his video a few weeks ago on Windows 10 ESUs.
Have decided to cough up the £25 and go with this option to keep my Windows 10 PC going for another 12 months. However after signing in with my Microsoft Account rather than as local user and going to the Windows Update page, there's no option on there to buy or subscribe to the update. Just wondered if anyone has actually had this appear yet or there's something else I need to do to trigger the dialogue? Or is it still being progressively rolled out and I just need to be patient?
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Windows 10 ESU
Has anyone yet received their invitation to register for the ESU programme. I await mine and am registered with a MS a/c and 1000 reward points. I hate to look daily for it to appear and would welcome anyone to tell me the expected date. Thanks.
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Try this solutions?Have decided to cough up the £25 and go with this option to keep my Windows 10 PC going for another 12 months. However after signing in with my Microsoft Account rather than as local user and going to the Windows Update page, there's no option on there to buy or subscribe to the update. Just wondered if anyone has actually had this appear yet or there's something else I need to do to trigger the dialogue? Or is it still being progressively rolled out and I just need to be patient?
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Windows 10 ESU
Has anyone yet received their invitation to register for the ESU programme. I await mine and am registered with a MS a/c and 1000 reward points. I hate to look daily for it to appear and would welcome anyone to tell me the expected date. Thanks.
my windows 10 ESU enrollment message disappeared. how can i confirm that my laptop is still enrolled in ESU? - Microsoft Q&A
I enrolled my 3 laptops in the Windows 10 ESU program. A message appeared under Settings on each laptop saying they were Enrolled. However, the Enrolled message on one of the laptops has disappeared. There is no link to re-Enroll. How can I verify that…
learn.microsoft.com
Had a quick look but seems more for those who had the link, clicked on it then went into limbo. And not sure I'm confident delving around in the registry where the O/S is concerned. Will give it a couple more weeks, keep checking Windows Update before looking at more drastic measures.Try this solutions?
my windows 10 ESU enrollment message disappeared. how can i confirm that my laptop is still enrolled in ESU? - Microsoft Q&A
I enrolled my 3 laptops in the Windows 10 ESU program. A message appeared under Settings on each laptop saying they were Enrolled. However, the Enrolled message on one of the laptops has disappeared. There is no link to re-Enroll. How can I verify that…learn.microsoft.com
The ESU popped up today on my old Thinkpad P50. It appears as in the above video. I haven't yet enrolled, but plan to use the backup trick to get it for free.
NB. It's a dual boot machine and I rarely use the Windows install on it. I let it update and the ESU message appeared after rebooting.
Edit - Enrolled, no drama doing the process in the video posted by MarcLister.
NB. It's a dual boot machine and I rarely use the Windows install on it. I let it update and the ESU message appeared after rebooting.
Edit - Enrolled, no drama doing the process in the video posted by MarcLister.
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It finally popped up today and was pleasantly surprised to see that I qualified for the free update too (means I still have £30 sitting on my MS store account waiting to be used!). So that buys 12 months to work out an upgrade/replacement plan for the old potato. Tempted to chuck a RTX 3050 and maybe some more HD in there in the meantime, particularly if it's possible MS decide to repeat the exercise next year.
What's your current system?
ASUS Z87K, I7 4770, 24Gb RAM, Total 2.5Tb HD space (all mech), GTX 1650 4Gb and 450w PSU.
mmm Yeah, no TPM. You can still use Windows 11 but just use Rufus to burn the ISO and remove the hardware requirements
Yes they could but why Win11 is garbage and should be avoided.
I agree but there is not another OS that is like Windows where app\games\software just works.
It doesn't matter to much we already know they will be supporting some versions of Win10 upto around 2030 point.
There is no reason any game developer etc would just stop supporting Win10 even if MS would like them to and put pressure on (They did this with Win7 claimed it couldn't support things yet people today have found ways around it)
People need to consider getting away from MS we are now seeing many other OS move forward and they need to consider the jump in the not too far future.
All about the Bazzite train!
Already tried that (twice) but Win 11 did not take very well.
I've been trying that out for the last month or so.
Has its perks but also has its down sides
What issues did you have?
Until game developers stop using Directx for the game development, they aren't going anywhere. If Nvidia and AMD decides to stop releasing drivers for a Win10, everyone else will just follow. Newer GPU bells and whistles wont be happening on unsupported versions of Windows. Why should they!?!?!
No one is going away from MS because its main platform for gaming. Linux still has a long way to go and Apple doesn't give a toss about gaming on MacOS.