r/Windows10 • u/MayankWL • 1d ago
r/Windows10 • u/Froggypwns • 15d ago
Help Simple questions and Help thread - Month of October
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 • u/jenmsft • 3d ago
Official News Cumulative Updates: October 13th, 2026
support.microsoft.comHey all - changelists are up*, linking here for your convenience:
- Windows 10 version 1507 — (EOS)
- Windows 10 version 1607 — KB5126868 (OS Build 14393.9612)(EOS)
- Windows 10 version 1703 — EOS
- Windows 10 version 1709 — EOS
- Windows 10 version 1803 — EOS
- Windows 10 version 1809 — KB5126651 (OS Build 17763.9376) (EOS)
- Windows 10 version 1903 — EOS
- Windows 10 version 1909 — EOS
- Windows 10 version 2004/21H1/20H2/21H1 — EOS/EOS
- Windows 10 version 21H2, and 22H2 —
*stay tuned. Please see the notehere. -- live now: October 13, 2026—KB5126657 (OS Builds 19045.7807 and 19044.7807) | Microsoft Support
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:
r/Windows10 • u/festival0156n • 23h ago
Discussion Question to Windows users who've used Linux - what Linux distro. would you recommend?
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 • u/w3z_true • 22h ago
Concept / Design Windows 10 (64bit) on 156MB of RAM
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 • u/Unhappy_Boat9645 • 1d ago
Discussion What if Windows 11 had never been released, and Windows 10 had remained the final version of Windows?
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 • u/claudiocorona93 • 2d ago
News So the NT 10 kernel is the only base going forward. End of an era.
r/Windows10 • u/AdditionalTension372 • 1d ago
App do you know about it?
windows 10 ltsc 2019 have windows 7 calculator
r/Windows10 • u/Additional-Serve-625 • 3d ago
News NVIDIA is ending Game Ready Driver updates for Windows 10
nvidia.custhelp.comFor 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 • u/lazarphone • 5d ago
Discussion Can i downgrade it to Windows 10
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 • u/Katsuga50 • 5d ago
Discussion After 2 decades of being a windows fan, I am finally retiring my last windows device.
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 • u/Aggressive-Head-4200 • 5d ago
Discussion is atlas os is the best windows 10 custom os
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 • u/Upset_Bumblebee8130 • 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?
r/Windows10 • u/No-Adhesiveness-4251 • 6d ago
News Microsoft: Outdated Windows devices will stop receiving security updates
Hopefully Windows 10 is still covered?
r/Windows10 • u/Lnwia • 11d ago
Discussion How is this effect achieved?
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 • u/tagbthw • 14d ago
Discussion Can I install windows 10 on an external disk?
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 • u/No_District_3580 • 14d ago
Discussion Wimdows 10 on dell studio XPS 1340
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 • u/Separate-Working-355 • 14d ago
Feature Is ther any way i can turn this off?
r/Windows10 • u/gonnthree • 14d ago
Discussion Modificar valores de RAM
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 • u/Moist_Inspection_485 • 15d ago
Discussion How do I add a custom background to the full screen start menu on windows 10?
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 • u/Hubbabubba21131 • 15d ago
Feature Did you know you can move your taskbar?
I actually didnt know this is possible
r/Windows10 • u/Davy49 • 16d ago
Discussion I'm Wanting To Make Windows 10 Look Like Windows 11 Taskbar
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.
r/Windows10 • u/CharmingResort885 • 18d ago
App Can I get tabs on the file explorer like in 11?
This is admittedly the only thing I miss coming from 11