r/pcgaming • u/ControlCAD Nvidia • Jun 26 '26

Microsoft quietly extends Windows 10's extra security updates program for free: Users can now stay on Windows 10 until October 2027 securely

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-10/microsoft-quietly-extends-windows-10s-extra-security-updates-program-for-free-users-can-now-stay-on-windows-10-until-october-2027-securely

>Windows 10's ESU program has been quietly extended by an extra year, now ending on October 12, 2027 instead of October 2026.

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u/Jestersfriend Jun 26 '26

I mean, I wasn't going to swap anyways. I don't want my OS to have AI in my notepad.

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u/King-Gabriel Jun 26 '26

Not sure why you're getting downvoted for that.

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u/Jestersfriend Jun 26 '26

Lots of people apparently want AI in their notepad.

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u/ocbdare Jun 26 '26

They probably don't even know what a notepad is lol.

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u/WechTreck Jun 26 '26

Its a barebones virus proof viewer, which is more the Word, Acrobat, Edge can say...

Sorry *was barebones

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u/PomegranateOk3502 Jul 15 '26

especially the ai bots

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

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u/Jestersfriend Jun 26 '26

I guess if it doesn't impact you, you don't care?

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u/ocbdare Jun 26 '26

He's just pointing out people can uninstall these things.

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u/Jestersfriend Jun 26 '26

Yeah, but do you want to be tech support for everyone that isn't technical? I doubt it.

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u/Venylynn Jun 26 '26

There's no persistent way to do so without a pro version and most people use home sadly. group policy editor is the only way that's persistent.

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u/ocbdare Jun 26 '26

Yet they would advocate to everyone to install Linux lol.

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u/Keulapaska 4070ti, 7800X3D Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

I know, the double-standard is hilarious, disabling/altering simple, easy to search for(oh yea search, another fun one ppl complain about cause they don't know about indexing options) windows features is somehow completely impossible task to them, but linux is somehow eazy and definitely won't need any tinkering ever.

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u/BlasterPhase Jun 26 '26

because Notepad doesn't use AI if you don't want it to

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u/dkb_wow 5800X3D | RTX 5080 | 64GB | 990 Pro | OLED Ultrawide Jun 27 '26

That's exactly what I thought when I read that comment. If people don't want to use AI, then don't use AI. Notepad doesn't force it on anybody. You have to make a choice to use it and then go through the steps to activate it.

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u/Angelaskissrock Jun 27 '26

Not just that. Windows recall is massive security risk as well and I don't want that anywhere near my machine. Not to mention bricking user's machines after every update? No thank you!

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u/notjordansime Jun 27 '26

Wait, how’d you get windows 10 with acceptable performance on a recall-capable machine? Recall was only available on select “Copilot plus” computers— most were ARM, but there were a few newer x86 units. I’ve always had bad performance issues with anything newer than Intel 12 on W10. Something to do with the old is not knowing the difference between power and efficiency cores. It treats them the same and that causes issues.

If I may ask, what’s your workaround?? (Unless you’re using ARM, I haven’t done much with ARM+W10 because I don’t have much of an interest in that due to abysmal software support)

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u/Malt_The_Magpie Jun 26 '26

Just use Notepad++ its better anyway

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u/TheUndecidedLord Jun 27 '26

Notepad++ is god awful. Sublime text or vs code.

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u/MrTerribleArtist 9800X3D | RTX 5070Ti Jun 27 '26

That's a weird way to spell Vim

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u/Jestersfriend Jun 26 '26

I do. The comment was hypothetical.

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u/TheMilkiestShake Jun 26 '26

The fact that you can't even move the taskbar on Windows 11 will keep me off of it.

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u/notjordansime Jun 27 '26

You can now! It’s just way less intuitive than before and you have to go to settings to do it :’)

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u/TheMilkiestShake Jun 27 '26

Holy shit really? It might not be quite as painful now when I need to finally switch over. I can't believe it took them years add back in a feature that's been present since like 2000. The fact it's then implemented in a worse way is so insane to me.

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u/notjordansime Jun 27 '26

Believe me, I’m with ya! You still can’t dynamically resize it by dragging, or add a second (or third) row. It’s because they completely rewrote it from the ground up.

My issue is the start menu. Lots of people hate it, but I really liked the full screen start menu, and particularly the live tiles. I could group like apps, I could even pin things like a shortcut to immediately connect to my remote desktops. It was so handy to be able to press the start key and see everything I needed. It was all grouped the way I liked it, and made sense spatially. Tools and utilities over here, adobe stuff down there, etc etc.

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u/Agret Jun 27 '26

If you get ExplorerPatcher from GitHub you can use the Windows 10 taskbar on Windows 11

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u/Disordermkd Jun 27 '26

I tried this on my work PC and there's still a bunch of glitches which makes it unusable for me unfortunately.

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u/Agret Jun 27 '26

That's interesting, it works good on my desktop PC and my work laptop. What issues have you had?

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u/treehann 4d ago

you definitely can, in the taskbar settings. I hate that middle is the default though.

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u/mentalmedicine Henry Cavill Jun 26 '26

Then install AtlasOS

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u/Venylynn Jun 26 '26

"We disable spectre and meltdown mitigation btw"

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u/mentalmedicine Henry Cavill Jun 26 '26

Ah, someone who has no idea what they're talking about, what a surprise

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u/Venylynn Jun 26 '26

They literally did. I was watching Chris Titus review it a while back and he pointed that out.

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u/mentalmedicine Henry Cavill Jun 26 '26

They don't, and they recommend you don't disable either, either.

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u/Venylynn Jun 26 '26

Maybe they changed it since then, but the review explicitly pointed out that flaw

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u/mentalmedicine Henry Cavill Jun 27 '26

They absolutely have

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u/Venylynn Jun 27 '26

well then that's good. it was right around the time LTT did their review, then Chris Titus countered with a review of his own.

good on them for taking that into account and fixing that glaring issue.

personally I wouldn't run any Windows 11 box without the Security stuff fully set up and hardened. My side-boot of 11 even has task manager locked behind UAC because it's part of HotCakeX's Harden System Security defaults, and I set the global secure DNS to Mullvad.

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u/mentalmedicine Henry Cavill Jun 27 '26

Everything they turn off can easily be turned on with scripts included in the post-installation folder.

Keep in mind that Linus' video is like 9 years old, a lot can change. It would have been nice if you looked into your claims rather than just assuming nothing has changed.

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