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Microsoft’s countdown clock is now real: with just weeks to go until Microsoft stops issuing security updates and routine support for Windows 10, organisations and home users face a concrete deadline — October 14, 2025 — and must act now to avoid rising exposure and operational disruption...

Microsoft has put a firm deadline on the decade-long era of Windows 10: for most users and businesses running Windows 10, mainstream servicing — including monthly security and quality updates — ends on October 14, 2025, and the final weeks before that date have produced a flurry of small...

Create Custom Power Plans & Use powercfg to Improve Battery Life and Performance (Win10/11) Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 20 minutes This guide walks you through creating tailored power plans and using the built-in powercfg command-line tool to tune battery life and performance on...

Microsoft has given Windows 10 users a narrow, conditional lifeline: you can keep receiving security updates after the OS’s official end-of-support date — but only if you complete a short, specific checklist and enroll in the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) pathway before the deadline...

Windows 10 will reach its official end of support on October 14, 2025, meaning Microsoft will stop delivering routine security updates, feature fixes, and standard technical assistance for the mainstream consumer editions; users must either upgrade eligible machines to Windows 11, enroll...

Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...

Microsoft’s decision to let eligible Windows 10 users keep receiving security-only updates for a single extra year has turned a firm end-of-support deadline into a short, conditional lifeline — but it comes with precise technical gates, privacy trade-offs, and a hard expiration that should make...

Microsoft has given Windows 10 users a narrow, conditional lifeline: you can keep receiving security updates after the platform’s official end-of-support date, but only if you complete a short, time-sensitive checklist before October 14, 2025. Background / Overview Microsoft has set a firm...

Microsoft’s public timeline is now unmistakable: Windows 10 will receive its final regular security updates on October 14, 2025, and users who do not move to a supported configuration face a sharply higher risk of exposure to new attacks — a threshold that, according to press coverage, affects...

Microsoft has set a hard deadline: Windows 10 will stop receiving free security updates on October 14, 2025, and every day that passes between now and that date increases the urgency for millions of households and businesses to act — whether by upgrading, enrolling in extended protection, or...

Microsoft will begin pushing the standalone Microsoft 365 Copilot app onto many Windows devices this fall, installing it quietly in the background on systems that already have Microsoft 365 desktop clients — with an explicit carve‑out for devices in the European Economic Area and several...

Rockstar’s long-awaited PC debut of the original Red Dead Redemption has given many Windows players a reason to celebrate — but a persistent stream of “unable to launch” and crash reports has left a sizable portion of users stranded at the launcher. Community troubleshooting lists (including a...

Microsoft is preparing to push its Copilot AI deeper into the Windows ecosystem by automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on many Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices starting this fall, a move that aims to make AI companions a default part of everyday computing — but one that also...

Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on many Windows devices this fall, but the rollout is neither universal nor unstoppable — administrators and privacy-conscious users have documented methods to block installation and disable the feature, and Microsoft...

Microsoft is giving a time‑boxed lifeline: if you need to keep a Windows 10 PC protected after October 14, 2025, you can enroll eligible machines in the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program to receive security‑only patches through October 13, 2026 — but enrollment has strict...

Microsoft’s Computex message — that Windows 10 had reached “3 hundred million” active devices — was an attention-grabbing milestone, but a closer look at contemporaneous market-share data shows a more complicated reality: Windows 10’s raw install base was growing fast, yet Windows 7 remained the...

Microsoft has given the clearest possible countdown: Windows 10 will stop receiving routine security updates, feature fixes, and general technical support after October 14, 2025, forcing every remaining Windows 10 PC into one of three paths — upgrade, pay for a temporary safety net, or accept...

AMD’s freshly posted support guidance for the vexing Error 1603 is a welcome — if overdue — dose of clarity for users who hit a brick wall while installing Radeon or chipset packages on Windows 10 and 11. The company’s knowledge base article walks through the usual suspects (software conflicts...

Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025 — exactly 30 days from today — and Microsoft has laid out a narrow, pragmatic exit path that mixes a one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) option, continued app/browser servicing, and a blunt message: upgrade, buy new...

Microsoft has set a hard line: on October 14, 2025, mainstream security updates for Windows 10 stop — and whether you upgrade, pay, or sign into a Microsoft account will determine if your PC stays protected for another year or becomes exposed to newly discovered exploits. This deadline affects...