Hi everyone, i was just wondering what version of Windows people are on, and how did you get it? I have been on 1909 for a long time, but have also had the 2004 note on the windows update screen without being offered it. So i decided to take the plunge this week and join as in insider, and ive been offered 2004. So far everything is working well (start menu was a little slow at first, and firefox crashed) but windows actually seems to run a bit faster on my machine now. Would love to hear others experiences of upgrades….
xperiencewindows
<p>Is this an old post? 2004 has been out since May 2020</p>
dftf
<p>On 20H2 here, as are both my parents' laptops, though my brother's is stuck on 1909 due to the Conexant audio-driver issue, so when you go to Start > Settings > Update & Security you just see the "your device is not ready".</p><p><br></p><p>Simply changing that device's driver to the generic "High-Definition Audio" one would likely be enough to remove the safeguard… as if Microsoft and Conexant haven't resolved the issue by the end of May this year, I'm not sure if his device will continue to get security-updates or not, as formally, 1909 Home ends-support in May…</p>
dftf
<blockquote><em><a href="#611645">In reply to greatrexmark:</a></em></blockquote><p>Something similar has happened in-the-past: there were some Intel Atom processors (Clover Trail era) which I think are stuck on 1709, but they will continue to receive security updates until Jan 2023.</p><p><br></p><p>It is rather-vague with Windows 10 though, compared to 8.1 and older, as you get support "for the lifetime of that device", which could mean anything. Whereas for 8.1 and older, it was 10 years of support from the day that version of Windows first released to the market.</p><p><br></p><p>So, you could find support drop for an older device at any point…</p>
dftf
<blockquote><em><a href="#611603">In reply to lwetzel:</a></em></blockquote><p>It's puzzling why your Insider machine is on 2004, when your "stable-branch" one is on 20H2.</p><p><br></p><p>According to Wikipedia, for that build-number, your test-machine is running the latest Feb 1, 2021 Dev-channel update-patch. So if you bring-up the WINVER utility, does it actually say in there "Version 2004 (OS Build 21301.1010)" rather-than "Version 21H1 (OS Build 21301.1010)"?</p>
dftf
<blockquote><em><a href="#611630">In reply to hrlngrv:</a></em></blockquote><p>I kind of forget about Windows 8.1 thesedays!</p><p><br></p><p>I wonder what pieces of software have started to drop-support for it? I know Microsoft Office 2019 doesn't officially run on it, nor do the latest versions of iTunes or NVIDIA Broadcast, but not sure of any others (though I'd imagine many AAA games' installers will insist on Windows 10).</p><p><br></p><p>Only just starting to see some software drop Windows 7 support, and even-then, in many cases (e.g. Audacity, Filezilla) it's a case of "we won't block it from installing, but we won't officially support any issues on that platform".</p>
dftf
<blockquote><em><a href="#611974">In reply to hrlngrv:</a></em></blockquote><p>True, though that's an annual-fee: the one-off purchase option, Office 2019, doesn't officially install (though over at the MSFN forum there is an unofficial hack to get it to)</p><p><br></p><p>Does Office365 still get feature-updates on Windows 8.1 or security-only? You can still install Office365 on Windows 7 SP1 clients, but February 2020 was the last time any new features would be added; from then on, O365 on Windows 7 only gets security-patches, but no new features</p>
dftf
<blockquote><em><a href="#612671">In reply to greatrexmark:</a></em></blockquote><p>In future, you may want to first try a little repair then cleanup.</p><p><br></p><p>In a Command Prompt window launched "as administrator", and while connected to the Internet, run these two commands to do a repair:</p><p><br></p><p>DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth</p><p><br></p><p>SFC /SCANNOW</p><p><br></p><p>then, to reclaim disk-space from system files you no-longer need, run:</p><p><br></p><p>DISM /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase</p><p><br></p><p>After that, you could also run Disk Cleanup "as administrator" and put a tick next to everything except "Thumbnails" and "Recycle Bin"</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
dftf
<blockquote><em><a href="#612698">In reply to greatrexmark:</a></em></blockquote><p>Visit: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health</p><p><br></p><p>Under a version of Windows, e.g. 20H2, click "known issues". It will list reasons why devices on older versions of Windows may be blocked from upgrading.</p><p><br></p><p>See if anything there may apply to your machine (also check "Resolved Issues" for previous blockers that have since been lifted; one of those might have applied to your device earlier-on…)</p>