- Windows 10’s extended support offering is currently rolling out
- A few few people, however, don’t see it – even included
- Microsoft has said that the rollout is happening ‘slow’ but that it will be available to everyone before Windows 10’s life end in October 2025
If you are driving Windows 10 and hope to get extended support to us to avoid having to upgrade to Windows 11 coming October 2025, you may be wondering exactly where the offer of this support is.
While it officially rolls out a month ago in limited form, Windows latest reports that the extended security update (ESU) scheme has not reached many people yet.
The button to start the registration wizard that allows you to sign up for the scheme – which can be done for free, which you may have seen – must appear in the Windows Update panel. However, a few people – including Windows recent readers – just don’t see this button at all, so they can’t sign up.
The Technical Website contacted Microsoft about this and was told by the company that the registration guide is actually rolling out at the moment – which was officially announced recently – it’s just that this is happening “slowly”.
There is nothing you can do to make the button appear in Windows Update; You just have to wait.
Analysis: A apparently careful rollout
I am still running Windows 10 and I plan to take the offer of extended support (for reasons I have discussed in -depth recently), but I have not yet seen it on my PC. There are scattered reports on various online forums from people wondering where the offer is, so it seems the rollout is on the cautious and slow side that Microsoft indicates.
The good news is that Microsoft has assured Windows latest that the registration guide will arrive at all Windows 10 PCs before the end of the older operating system, which is mid -October 2025. So it’s just a case of being patient, even if I personally won’t leave the program until the last minute.
Hopefully, Microsoft will kick the ESU Educrulling in a higher gear with the next big update to Windows 10, arriving on September 9, 2025. We have to see, and maybe ironed the guide has been part of the problem here – there was a remarkable glitch, whereby the registration process avoided some people, a problem Microsoft solved the week before.
Meanwhile, as Windows latest points out elsewhere, Microsoft increases its full-screen nags, which appears to Windows 10 users, and encourages them to upgrade to Windows 11, as for the recent August update. These are pop-ups that have been seen before and it is likely that they will be fired out again next month and when October rolls around when the support is cut off for those who have not signed up for ESU.
I will take advantage of the free option for extended updates that require synchronization of PC settings for OneDrive as this is something I already do anyway. For those who would rather not do it – and remember, it’s just your Windows settings, not your files and data that is synced – they can still pay $ 30 (or equivalent in their currency) to join ESU (which was originally the only option).
A third route is to pay into 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points, provided you have accumulated so many.
