Windows 11 End of Life

[henni]

Today, one of our LG Gram laptops, running Windows 11 Pro, popped up in the system tray an icon with 2 red arrows.

When clicked, it led to a message that the '.....current version of Windows 11 you are running has reached it's end of life .... download/update to newer version ... ' (paraphrasing)

When 'Check for Updates' is clicked, the only item it downloaded was a new update for Windows Defender but did not offer any link or download to remove this message.

Reading now https://www.lansweeper.com/blog/eol/windows-11-end-of-life/ which I have not yet confirmed as to the version/solution.

 

[2009Caraman]

Yeah known issue. Windows updates have been a disaster this year. Expect a fix shortly; next week maybe.

 

[henni]

Windows 11 Update Assistant downloaded a 4.4 GB update file and Modern Update Host (sic?) started an 'update process'

Download was fast over 1 TB connection but the 'update assistant' module has been working now for an hour.
It shows a message to keep working, save your work often, '...we will boot your pc 30 minutes after this shows 100% complete..." (paraphrasing)

 

[Pew]

Win11 22H2 EOL was Oct 8th, so that's probably why.

The update assistant has always been a pain and takes super long but the plus side is that you don't need to reimage Win11 like before if you've missed big updates. Expect it to take even longer - probably a better idea to do it over night. If the update assistant is still stuck, you'll have to manually remove everything in C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download and try again.

 

[henni]

Directory Opus kept track of progress as this was running and it shows $GetCurrent and $WINDOWS.~BT folders created today

Now restarting PC ....

 

[JavierH19]

I won't update to 11 until I'm forced to. I went to 10 when I was forced off of 7.

 

[henni]

Old version was Win 11 Pro
Build 22000.co-release.210604-1628

New version is
Win 11 Pro Insider Preview
Build 26100.ge_release.240331-1435

Had to re-run Yamicsoft Windows Manager 2.0.7 to remove shortcut shield, shortcut arrow and shortcut to prefix and also to show Windows version on desktop

Now have a new folder, Windows.old, 24..4 GB in C:\

StartAllBack restored all settings to familiar Windows 7/8/10 menu style and Glasswire Premium reported a few modules wanting access (widgets)

 

[vavavroom]

My current W10 desktop pc, now 6 or 7 years old, will replace an older W10 desktop computer as my offline computer some time next year. I will get a new PC with W11. I have been using W11 since it came out on my laptop. I have not had any major problems with W10 or W11 but some small annoyances.

 

[henni]

that "was" C:\Windows.old

 

[henni]

Upgraded machine to Windows 11 Enterprise and ran Abelssoft PC Fresh 2025 v11.0.56922 to optimize service settings

All good now.