Windows 10 End of Life

Windows 10 support ended 10/14/2025 and Windows 11 was made to trash millions of computers, as most users don't need the fancy hardware features Windows 11 demands to install.

Luckily for anyone who just wants email, web browsing, word processing, spreadsheets, access apps, instead of ditching your computer, you can continue using it "as is" until its wheels fall off. Just make sure you don't accidentally click on something that causes Win11 to be installed.

Another option is to backup your personal files, ditch Windows, and go with one of the many free Linux versions. Pro versions of Windows can have lots of bits of Linux lurking in it anyway, so you can go the whole way and ditch Windows completely.

It's kind of like everyone used to think you had to have a landline, then mobiles came along and had to have a keypad, then iPhones came along...Could phone numbers and Windows be next on the chopping block?

I've continued using Windows 10 on my primary laptop and have no intention of doing anything different with it until the laptop itself fails

Every once in a while I get popups trying to force me, I get rid of them pronto.

The OS's have become increasingly annoying and more apple-like over time, so I put them off until I have no choice. Probably will be when I next buy a laptop I may have no choice at that point

I use no AV system at all, (other than all the windows built in stuff), AV systems behave more like a virus than a virus does, never regretted it
 
Fixed my problem with a registry edit. Despite pausing my latest update until mid-November, it pushed itself through anyway when I restarted so that the update center can proudly tell me the OS is EOL. Hopefully it stays that way.
 
Fixed my problem with a registry edit. Despite pausing my latest update until mid-November, it pushed itself through anyway when I restarted so that the update center can proudly tell me the OS is EOL. Hopefully it stays that way.
Beware if that update didn't undo your registry setting. Check it again. There's a Windows service called "Remote Registry" which essentially allows Microsoft to make changes to your registry settings without notifying you.
 
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No, Access BE's don't run natively in Linux. You would have to put them in a Windows hosted KVM. However, SQL Server runs natively in Linux, although I've never tried the Linux version.

There are plenty of db servers that run natively in Linux, e.g. Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Informix, ... I have linked Access FE's to all of those. On Linux, you typically want to isolate db servers in a KVM. That's the recommended config for hybrid Access/Web applications. Web server also has its own KVM. It's a lot easier to backup/restore KVM's, plus that isolation provides increased security. The Linux server essentially acts as VM hypervisor.

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Actually, an Access BE runs fine when on an ext4 partition with Samba authentication running on Linux. I did it for years. An Access BE doesn't run in place, it's opened by the FE.
 
Actually, an Access BE runs fine when on an ext4 partition with Samba authentication running on Linux. I did it for years. An Access BE doesn't run in place, it's opened by the FE.
FE's can connect to BE's on Linux and NAS, however if you try to directly run them it throws a memory fault, core dumped error. I tested it over 10 years ago. BE's and FE's are Windows accdb file types. If accdb's were able to natively run on Linux, then Excel and all other Office components would also, but MS has never ported it to Linux, with the exception of Office without Access on MacOS. An accdb requires DLL's, display, I/O drivers, and a runtime to launch.
 
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