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Jacob Fox

Masters of timing, Microsoft: Just one day from Windows 10 EOL and apparently the official Media Creation Tool isn't working

Emoji hands waving goodbye to the Windows 10 wallpaper.

It's approximately *checks watch* one day until Windows 10 ostensibly gets the chop, so it's a good job the Media Creation Tool is available for people to use to install Windows 11 and- oh, it's not available? Welp, I guess that's that, then. Kidding: If you've left it to the final minute to get upgraded, you can still use Rufus to make the installation media.

But yes, according to ComputerBase, there are reports of many Windows 10 users that are currently unable to use the Microsoft Media Creation Tool to make Windows 11 installation media. Which is probably the default method that most people will turn to to install Windows 11 if they've been hanging on to the previous OS until now.

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