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   mikiem2
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   bleepingcomputer[.]com/news/microsoft/windows-11-22h2-home-and-pro-get-preview-updates-until-june-26/

   Win10 Home & Pro will get the 2nd, optional monthly updates until June 26, 2024, with the End of Support October 8, 2024.

   Enterprise & EDU versions will get updates until October 14, 2025, so one option is to install the Enterprise version over the top of a current Win10 installation to get one more year of support. It will not be activated but Win10 will still work. Joining the Insider program, which basically just requires registering with an email address, allows you to log into the Insider web site & download Windows insider ISO files, which is the way I get Enterprise version ISOs. Microsoft will offer paid extended servicing, and like with Win7, someone(s) may develop and release a hack that allows you to receive those updates.
   
   I've got a tablet with 32-bit UEFI BIOS and zero Linux support so it's stuck on Win10 -- I've got the Ent. ISO handy while I wait to see if a hack appears before November, 2024. Everything else will be moved to Win11, starting once Microsoft releases the 24H2 RTM ISO. One of the easiest workarounds to install Win11 is to use Rufus with the ISO -- it can do the mod for you while copying everything to a USB stick -- but there's loads of info online if you want to take a full DIY approach.

   Posted 7 months ago #
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   gergn
   Member

   Did you try MX-23.2_386 for your tablet with 32-bit UEFI BIOS ( see https[:]//sourceforge.net/projects/mx-linux/files/Final/Xfce/Cdownload )? I prefer MX Linux above Zorin.

   I have used the setuppprep.exe method to upgrade to W11 23H2 without hiccups to have support to October 2025 for all my old machines:

   https[:]//www.elevenforum.com/t/upgrade-win-10-to-win-11-using-the-setupprep-exe-method-bypasses-all-hardware-checks.22310/

   Yev there writes "W10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 (21H2) will keep you patched until 2032". See

   https[:]//learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/iot-enterprise/whats-new/windows-10-iot-enterprise-ltsc-2021
   states the end of servicing will be 2032-01-13

   Posted 7 months ago #
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   mikiem2
   Moderator

   Thank You!

   Every once in a while I'll spend 2-3 hours Googling & researching, but I haven't found any version of Linux that can work with the 32-bit UEFI BIOS, the touchscreen, and the WiFi chip. :( It was a popular tablet in its day, and quite a few people with Much better Linux knowledge & experience than I have tried, but I have never found anyone who completely succeeded. I do very much like the idea of the IoT version, BUT, it's 64-bit only. Allegedly you can switch the Ent. LTSC to the IoT version by using an IoT key, but no idea what will happen with the 32-bit version since there is no 32-bit IoT. If it doesn't work I'll still have until 2027 with the regular LTSC, so it's not entirely a loss. Next week I'll download a Win10 Home 32-bit ISO, install it in a VM, try the upgrade to the LTSC version, and try the IoT key, and see what happens.

   I have used the setuppprep.exe method to upgrade to W11...

   When I upgrade Win10 to 11 I like to run setup.exe from the ISO in Win10 because I think you have a better chance of the Win10 drivers being migrated to Win11, especially if some of them were migrated to 10 from Win7. And I'm Lazy. So I just let Rufus copy the files from the ISO to a USB stick, replacing appraiserres.dll on the way. Then on whatever device I just plug in the USB stick and run setup. I'd have updated everything to Win11 already but, like I said, I'm just Lazy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ That, and far too many times the same process failed with Win10 -- I still cannot help but feel dread when setup restarts the device.(◎﹏◎)

   Posted 7 months ago #

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