still there will be a microsoft salesbot on yer desktop everyday offering Windows12 now with more of whatever you clicked on last and 90 day office 365 sub for free (may require a credit card to unlock), etc, etc., its a treadmill with a new version dangling in front of your eyes and a crater full of malware and bad actors behind you if you fall off the treadmill there be gators in the waters unless you land on Linux Island and its motley crew..

 

You can force the ESU enrolment option to appear in Settings -> Update if you're on a fairly updated version of Windows 10:



Quoting abbodi86 from this thread:

run Windows Powershell as administrator, copy and paste the following:

Code:

& reg.exe add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Policies\Microsoft\FeatureManagement\Overrides" /v 4011992206 /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f
$TN = "ReconcileFeatures"; $TP = "\Microsoft\Windows\Flighting\FeatureConfig\"; $null = Enable-ScheduledTask $TN $TP
Start-ScheduledTask $TN $TP; while ((Get-ScheduledTask $TN $TP).State.value__ -eq 4) {start-sleep -sec 1}; "Task Completed"
#
$TN = "UsageDataFlushing"; $TP = "\Microsoft\Windows\Flighting\FeatureConfig\"; $null = Enable-ScheduledTask $TN $TP
Start-ScheduledTask $TN $TP; while ((Get-ScheduledTask $TN $TP).State.value__ -eq 4) {start-sleep -sec 1}; "Task Completed"
#

restart the system

then run this in Command Prompt as administrator:

Code:

cmd /c ClipESUConsumer.exe -evaluateEligibility
reg.exe query "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\ConsumerESU"

If the result isn't 0x0, then you should see the enrolment option.

 

Microsoft are going to release another year of security updates for Windows 10 on the consumer ESU channel, until the 12th of October 2027. I'm not sure if that means they're also adding another year of security fixes for LTSC then (2032 -> 2033).

 

These self imposed deadlines mean nothing at all since the update garbage is nothing but a ruse. Falling for the bullshit line of "update or die" is a fools errand. If there is some major security flaw or virus cure that affect the OS directly ms is bound by law to provide a universal patch to fix it. Beyond that, the rest is just junk.