Windows 10 ESU

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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.
 
I don't think you get an invitation, you do it via the Windows Update page in the Settings app:


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.
 
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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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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Try this solutions?

 
Try this solutions?

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.
 
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.
 
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