Windows 10 'end of service' message.

must be version 2004....

Sounds like you're stuck on Win10 1909 release What does Winkey+R followed by "winver" without the quotes say?

Version 1909. I knew that anyway, but some people have said

Win 10 32/Pro 4G ram, one 500G WD drive partitioned into C, D, E and F.

Andrew

Old wives tales, I suspect ...

Under Settings/Updates, can you see if it's been holding off the 20H2 update, or trying and failing it, or is it just waiting for you to be brave and tell it to do it?

There are some batch files floating around e.g. the sevenforums that will nuke windows update and usually get failed updates going again.

If that's not the case, then download an ISO or USB stick with the media creation tool, and do an install over the top of 20H1, will keep your existing settings.

backups are good first.

I would suggest downloading the latest version and installing it on a USB stick. You could then boot the PC from the USB stick and make sure that all the hardware is useable.

I have an old Dell Vostro with a 2GHz C2D CPU (coming up for 15 years old now!), and the SSD makes it usable. However, I have now moved over to an i7 with lots of RAM, and it's an awful lot better. I don't know what your CPU is, but there comes a time when an upgrade saves an awful lot of hassle if you can afford it.

Of course, there's the pride in continuing to use old hardware, thus spiting the big corporations that want you to upgrade, but eventually you have to kowtow to them, I'm afraid.

You can do an upgrade over top, by:

You can coax an installation, even if there isn't a video driver suited for the job. That's the difference doing it manually, versus waiting for Windows Update to do it. Windows Update, in the past has staged some drivers, before the upgrade happens, whereas manually ramming in a version doesn't wait for drivers (where the driver most likely to be inadequate would be a video card driver).

And, as the old installation is kept in C:\Windows.old, if you don't happen to like how it turned out, you can "Revert" to the way it was before. But, I don't recommend doing that, and a complete backup before you begin this, is a better way to "Revert" if it is needed. If there's a really egregious problem with the installation process, the backup can save you some effort.

THe Revert capability only exists for about ten days, and C:\Windows.old will be deleted by the OS past that time. Do not try to delete C:\Windows.old by yourself - use Cleanmgr.exe if you must, and click the system cleanup button for details.

Paul

Yes this stupidity is getting ridiculous, I am going to hang on to 7 until I have to as what Windows is now doing is making a new version almost every few months, which then means older versions will not be supported with updates, only the most recent ones. I will lose screenreader support next year since the latest versions of code compilers like Python will stop supporting windows 7 then. The answer, so I'm told is to get a ridiculously up market computer, keep a copy of windows 10 up to date on it and run older versions of windows inside it as virtual machines so they are protected. Seems bloody mad when they could make money by supporting legacy systems by charging for updates for them. Brian

Does win 10 still clobber legacy software though? I'm thinking the updated, well cludged version of Outlook Express and certain other specialist software like news bridge which I'd suspect nobody knows about.

I used to have windows 10, but got fed up of the wasted time spent backing stuff up that might be trashed and then waiting half an hour for it to die or work. Brian

Can you not get a screenreader for W10?

I changed totally to Win10 last year. After having problems accessing my bank with Win7.

Not had any problems (once I'd actually got it installed) and quite like it now.

They do sell Windows7 Pro support, it'll cost you £50 for 2020 backdated, £100 for 2021 and £200 for 2022.

Is it worth £350 for you to delay upgrading to win10 by 19 months?

I didn't want to change from Win7. But am now glad I did. Can't say I've had problems getting the software I want for it. Nothing like as much as when changing from XP to Win7.

I thought in the early days of 2004 it borked some machines for which it didn't have the right drivers (typically older machines). The release was then held back and then altered to make futher checks on the target computer before making itself available.

afaik it now would not be on offer unless the computer is capable of accepting it. From memory 2004 took a long time to be offered to my

In any event I did a partition backup first anyway.

My old machine is starting to struggle with its 8Gb ram when I have say a dozen tabs open. Hit a "compressing memory" message the other day for the first time. Plenty of disk space. Updates nearly always = bigger.

I've got loads of MSDOS applications that won't now run on Win10.

Install freedos in a virtual machine?

Not even in

If you still need to access any of them, have you tried running MS-DOS in a virtual machine?