esu enrollment

Millions of people who stayed on Windows 10 after Microsoft’s official cut‑off can still get security patches — and in many cases those patches are free — but the rules, trade‑offs, and costs are more complex than headlines suggest. Background / Overview Microsoft ended mainstream support for...

Microsoft’s update controls for Windows 10 are suddenly behaving differently on a growing number of machines: users report the familiar “Pause updates for 7 days” button is greyed out or replaced by an “Install updates as soon as possible / Expedite this session” prompt, and the Settings page...

Microsoft appears to be tightening the Windows 10 update pathway in ways that will change how millions of PCs receive security fixes — and some recent headlines suggesting the company will “remove an essential update feature for non‑ESU users” need careful unpacking to separate confirmed policy...

Microsoft’s official line — that it is not forcing Windows 11 on users — sits uneasily beside a rising chorus of hands-on reports and system-behavior changes that make accidental or effectively unavoidable upgrades more likely for some Windows 10 PCs. What began as a subtle UI nudge has become...

Microsoft’s one‑year safety net for Windows 10 — the Consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) — exists to keep older PCs safe, but the enrollment path has been rocky for many users: the ESU link sometimes doesn’t appear in Settings, the enrollment wizard can return a cryptic “Something did not...

Microsoft pushed a focused set of Windows 10 dynamic updates on November 11, 2025 — KB5069340, KB5068795, KB5068790, KB5068794 and KB5068789 — that refresh Windows Setup and the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) across multiple servicing branches, and it also issued an out‑of‑band fix...

Microsoft pushed a compact but operationally important batch of Windows 10 Setup and Safe OS (WinRE) dynamic updates on November 11, 2025 — including KB5069340, KB5068795, KB5068790, KB5068794, KB5068789, and an urgent out‑of‑band ESU enrollment fix KB5071959 — updates that are small in bytes...

Microsoft pushed a focused batch of Windows 10 Setup and Safe OS (WinRE) dynamic updates on November 11, 2025 — including KB5069340, KB5068795, KB5068790, KB5068794 and KB5068789 — alongside an urgent out‑of‑band ESU enrollment fix (KB5071959), refreshing recovery and setup binaries that imaging...

Microsoft has quietly shipped an out‑of‑band (OOB) update — KB5071959 — that repairs a broken enrollment wizard preventing some Windows 10 consumer PCs from joining the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, restoring the ability for eligible devices to receive post‑end‑of‑support security...

Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday delivered a compact but urgent security package: 63 vulnerabilities were fixed across Windows and Microsoft products, including an actively exploited Windows kernel zero‑day (CVE‑2025‑62215) and a critical GDI+ remote code execution bug (CVE‑2025‑60724), plus...

Microsoft has released KB5068781 — the first cumulative security rollup for Windows 10 distributed through the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program — advancing 22H2 systems to Build 19045.6575 and delivering a targeted set of security and servicing fixes for ESU‑enrolled devices. This update...

Microsoft has issued a narrowly targeted emergency update — KB5071959 — to repair a broken Windows 10 ESU enrollment path that was preventing eligible consumer PCs from signing up for Extended Security Updates via the in‑OS enrollment wizard, restoring the ability for those systems to receive...

Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday delivers a compact but urgent set of fixes: an actively exploited Windows kernel elevation‑of‑privilege zero‑day (CVE‑2025‑62215), a clutch of critical RCEs affecting GDI+ and Office components, and several important updates and enrollment fixes for Windows 10...

Microsoft has quietly issued an emergency, out‑of‑band update (KB5071959) for Windows 10, version 22H2 to repair a broken Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment path that was preventing eligible consumer PCs from signing up for post‑end‑of‑support security patches. The package not only...

Microsoft has issued an out‑of‑band Windows 10 update, KB5071959, to repair a bug that was preventing eligible consumer PCs from enrolling in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program — a timely fix that restores the update path for machines that otherwise could not receive November’s critical...

Microsoft pushed an emergency, out‑of‑band fix on November 11 to restore a broken Windows 10 enrollment wizard that was preventing eligible consumer PCs from signing up for Extended Security Updates (ESU) — a failure that, until the patch was applied, could stop security updates entirely for...

Microsoft has shipped the November 2025 security rollup and an urgent out‑of‑band (OOB) patch that fixes a bug which prevented some Windows 10 PCs from enrolling in the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program — a release that also closes an actively exploited Windows kernel zero‑day and...

Microsoft has quietly shipped an out‑of‑band cumulative update for Windows 10, version 22H2 — KB5071959 — designed to repair a broken consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment wizard and to restore the pathway that allows eligible personal PCs to keep receiving critical security...

Microsoft's short grace period for Windows 10 users has become an urgent, operational reality: unless you enroll your eligible PC in Microsoft's consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program or upgrade to Windows 11, your machine can enter an unpatched, higher‑risk state within days — and...

Microsoft has issued an out‑of‑band update (KB5071959) for Windows 10, version 22H2 to fix a consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment failure and to make sure affected machines can complete enrollment and begin receiving critical security updates via Windows Update. The patch...