Windows 10 users after 14 October 2025

[yello]

I'd be interested in knowing how your PC actually runs under Win11. Not that I'm thinking of upgrading, purely interest.

 

[DaveReading]

I joined the Win11 club today, even though Microsoft installer said my cpu (i5) wasn’t supported. All I had to do was stick in a new registry entry and the upgrade went ahead. I’ll see how I get on with it over the next week or so. At 8 years old, the PC is due for replacement but I wanted to eke out another year on it, if possible, so stuck Win11 on it.

Out of interest, did (a) all your apps and (b) all your device drivers continue to function OK, or did you have to update/reinstall any ?

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Out of interest, did (a) all your apps and (b) all your device drivers continue to function OK, or did you have to update/reinstall any ?

So far, everything appears to be functioning as before. No reinstallations of any app or driver.

 

[markemark]

So far, everything appears to be functioning as before. No reinstallations of any app or driver.

Everything will work fine. The slight risk is that future w11 updates won’t work. This may be because your machine is out of spec or because MS are being awkward. Or more likely you’ll never see any issues.

 

[Svendo]

Less than 2 weeks to go now to the cut-off date, but I just discovered that the 1 year of extended security updates for Win 10 is now available free in the UK so I just signed up. (Go to Settings/Update & Security and you should find a link there.)

I will still upgrade my laptop later this year but I will wait to see what bargains are available around 'Black Friday'/'Cyber Monday'.

Cheers for the pointer Colin, got the extra year on the only-5-years-old-laptop that I upgraded with SSD and RAM 18 months ago!

 

[MontyVeda]

I joined the Win11 club today, even though Microsoft installer said my cpu (i5) wasn’t supported. All I had to do was stick in a new registry entry and the upgrade went ahead. I’ll see how I get on with it over the next week or so. At 8 years old, the PC is due for replacement but I wanted to eke out another year on it, if possible, so stuck Win11 on it.

That's practically brand spanking new in my book!