Wondering if anyone knows how to access ESU for Windows 10. We have an outside company that we thought took care of this but have recently learned they did not. Now trying to sign up for the extended coverage but cannot register! More on learn.microsoft.com

Shortcut to the said link, you can paste this into a Run window: ms-settings:windowsupdate-esu?OCID=WEB_EOS_CY25_ESU&source=WEB More on reddit.com

I'm going to tell you a secret no one wants to hear. Unless you do something royally fucking stupid, like execute something on your machine you're not supposed to, you'll never get owned. I ran and happily connected a windows 7 device to the net until earlier this year. Didn't do anything personal with it but in all my time with it, it has never shown any issues whatsoever, because either what's snooping is so imperceptable as to not cause any hardware thrashing (random CPU loads) or there was never anything to begin with. Nothing personal has ever been utilized against me, no credit cards, no accounts lost, nothing. People think the internet is full of boogeymen ready to take your asshole and spread it...and while that's true, you have to basically let them into your front door and bend over backwards with your pants down for that to happen. Also: have never run an AV since I left high school for college. I routinely scour my data, absolutely nothing has ever been owned. All it takes is being 2% smart and conscious about what you're doing. 99% of security is literally just wrapping the average idiot in 300 pillows so they can go to the grocery store, with each pillow popping a warning telling them DOn'T CLICK THIS if they so much as go near anything something suspicious. Now if you're someone who routinely gets a virus and has to reinstall windows, you should update. If you've literally never had a problem, lol lmao. All those fancy security things that windows updates has that makes your system run inevitably slower and more dogshit, none of it matters. And if you are the target of specific malware or bad actors that isn't just whatever, you have much bigger problems than worrying about windows updates and you would also have many more security protocols in place. Now where the line DOES get blurry is stuff like browsers and other software and applications. Outdated browsers CAN have their shit intercepted and redirect you to sketchy places, for example. The problem becomes when application creators no longer provide updates or support for older OS. That is the real end of your security. More on reddit.com

Technical Level: Basic. Applies to: All Windows 10 editions. Revision: 1.0. Summary In this community guide, I will show you how to enroll into Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU). Officially, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10 on October… More on learn.microsoft.com