r/Windows10 • • 16d ago

Help Simple questions and Help thread - Month of October

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Welcome to the monthly Simple questions and Help thread, for questions that don't need their own posts!

Before making a comment, we recommend you search your problem on Bing and check if your question is already answered on our Windows Frequently Asked Questions wiki page. This subreddit no longer accepts tech support requests outside of this post, if you are looking for additional assistance try r/WindowsHelp.

Some examples of questions to ask:

  • Is this super cheap Windows key legitimate? (probably not)

  • How can I install Windows 11?

  • Can you recommend a program to play music?

  • How do I get back to the old Sound Control Panel?

Sorting by New is recommend and is the default.


The general release of Windows 10 is no longer supported, however you can enroll to get extended support for your machine until October 2027, for more details on that please see this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/1kp4ebu/windows_10_end_of_support_what_it_means_for_you/


r/Windows10 • • 3d ago

Official News Cumulative Updates: October 13th, 2026

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Hey all - changelists are up*, linking here for your convenience:

Please see here for details about Windows 10 ESU: Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program - Microsoft Support. If you're transitioning over to Windows 11, looking forward to seeing you over on the Windows 11 subreddit :)

General info:

  • For a list of known issues, please refer to the dashboard here.
  • For details about feedback, and how to capture traces if needed, see here. Pressing WIN + F will open the Feedback Hub

r/Windows10 • • 9h ago

Concept / Design why did they change the original hero background?

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i mean come on the old one is so much better


r/Windows10 • • 1d ago

News “674 million paid views, and still nobody wants Windows 11”: Microsoft’s massive YouTube campaign to get Windows 10 users to buy new PCs is not going well

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r/Windows10 • • 1d ago

Discussion Question to Windows users who've used Linux - what Linux distro. would you recommend?

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All the Linux users I ask are recommending me impractical minimal builds with no display driver cause "its bloat".... (image just cause there has to be one)


r/Windows10 • • 1d ago

Concept / Design Windows 10 (64bit) on 156MB of RAM

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Based on Windows 10 LTSC 2021 64-bit. I did manage 146MB but that required not having sound/bluetooth/firewall etc at all. This one can do pretty much whatever regular windows 10 can do (except windows store). UWP apps are work-in-progress.

UPDATE: here be video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSPrVHJb_8U


r/Windows10 • • 2d ago

Discussion What if Windows 11 had never been released, and Windows 10 had remained the final version of Windows?

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This suddenly came to mind, so I decided to write it down, what do you think would happen if things had been this way?

Edit: Ah, of course, I was just imagining what would happen if Windows 11 never came out, and Windows 10 remained the last Windows version while still receiving feature updates etc. 🙂


r/Windows10 • • 2d ago

News So the NT 10 kernel is the only base going forward. End of an era.

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348 Upvotes

r/Windows10 • • 3d ago

Feature My Windows 10 still receive an update?

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r/Windows10 • • 1d ago

App do you know about it?

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windows 10 ltsc 2019 have windows 7 calculator


r/Windows10 • • 3d ago

News NVIDIA is ending Game Ready Driver updates for Windows 10

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For anyone still using Windows 10, NVIDIA will release its last Game Ready Driver for Windows 10 in October 2026. After that, you'll only get security updates every three months until October 2029.

Your current drivers will still work, but you won't get new Game Ready Driver updates anymore.


r/Windows10 • • 3d ago

Discussion Rank Start Menu Layout

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44 Upvotes

r/Windows10 • • 5d ago

Discussion Can i downgrade it to Windows 10

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51 Upvotes

I have a Dell 15 Dc15250 and it has Windows 11 but can i downgrade it to Windows 10 without losing any data?


r/Windows10 • • 5d ago

Discussion After 2 decades of being a windows fan, I am finally retiring my last windows device.

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This is not a clickbait post (might be a rant tho). I have always been a fan of Microsoft products. I owned Lumia, windows laptop, desktop. Contributed to the communities. Hell I still get messages from people on Reddit who thank me for my comment solving a bug on windows 10.

It no longer makes sense for me to keep on investing in Windows. I already had moved away to MacBook 5 years back as my developer machine. But I still kept windows machine to play games and do random stuffs. With that machine nearing to an end, and the graphics cards being so expensive, I no longer think its affordable to keep using Windows to play games or use it as a work machine. I should perhaps get a gaming console instead while using Mac as primary.

It genuinely hurts to come to a stage like this. Microsoft does not seem to care at all.


r/Windows10 • • 5d ago

Discussion is atlas os is the best windows 10 custom os

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when it comes to pure gaming (idc about security features it isnt for daily drive...my brother wants to play roblox on 9 years old laptop -lenovo x1 yoga gen 1 so im thinking about installing this.any thoughts?prorities:stability and smoother gameplay


r/Windows10 • • 5d ago

News Windows 10 officially reached the end of support on October 14, 2025. 💻 The end of an era for millions of PC users—but technology keeps moving forward. Are you still using Windows 10?

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r/Windows10 • • 7d ago

News Microsoft: Outdated Windows devices will stop receiving security updates

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159 Upvotes

Hopefully Windows 10 is still covered?


r/Windows10 • • 11d ago

Discussion How is this effect achieved?

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23 Upvotes

Is this the original Windows Start menu? If not, just let me know. I also asked the original creator, but he didn’t reply. I didn’t want to make things awkward, so I didn’t ask him again. Thank you!
----ChatGPT Translate


r/Windows10 • • 14d ago

Discussion Can I install windows 10 on an external disk?

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65 Upvotes

I know windows to go was a thing like 5 years ago but went out of support, is there any other way to bypass the warning and install it on an external drive?


r/Windows10 • • 14d ago

Discussion Wimdows 10 on dell studio XPS 1340

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21 Upvotes

Basically i just got a computer from a friends son who works for Microsoft and it says it ran vista, but it runs 10. i need suggestions on how i can us this, for example, must need apps, performance settings, etc. anything is useful!


r/Windows10 • • 15d ago

Feature Is ther any way i can turn this off?

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19 Upvotes

r/Windows10 • • 14d ago

Discussion Modificar valores de RAM

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Buenas gente una consulta, tengo proce que tiene gráfica integrada pero tengo conectada la grafica, osea que no deberia destinar memoria para los gráficos integrados, aun así me sigue apareciendo el cartel ese de ram utilizable, como hago para activar el 100% de la ram y que me salga 32GB ?


r/Windows10 • • 15d ago

Discussion How do I add a custom background to the full screen start menu on windows 10?

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So a while ago I found this custom windows 10 iso based on Windows 10 LTSE iot (The same version I am running) And it was meant to mimic windows 8. In the ISO it had the base start menu from windows 10 set as full screen but somehow they got a custom image to show on the back rather than it just being transparent and showing only your regular image. I was wondering how they did this.

The second image is the desktop of the custom ISO.


r/Windows10 • • 15d ago

Feature Did you know you can move your taskbar?

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I actually didnt know this is possible


r/Windows10 • • 16d ago

Discussion I'm Wanting To Make Windows 10 Look Like Windows 11 Taskbar

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On my older hp desktop I still have windows 10 pro installed on it, I know there must be a way to make the taskbar look more like the windows 11 taskbar.