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Darren Allan

How to sign up for free extended updates in Windows 10 to stay safe until October 2026

A young woman is working on a laptop in a relaxed office space.

If you're using Windows 10, it likely hasn't escaped your attention that the operating system reaches its End of Life today. In other words, the October update that rolls out from today is the final instalment of the official support provided by Microsoft for this last-gen OS. Going forward, no more updates will be delivered for Windows 10.

Well, that's not quite true – if you take no action, you'll get no more updates, but what you can do is sign up for Windows 10's Extended Security Updates (ESU) scheme, which allows a Windows 10 PC to receive updates for a further year (through to October 2026).

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