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Can someone help me out here? After I updated my Windows software on my laptop this evening, I got a message saying "Your version of Windows has reached the end of service". This really confuses me because I'm on Windows 11 and I got a new laptop literally 2 months ago and I barely even used 10-15% of it's total memory space on my C Drive.
Does anyone know what's going on here? Does this mean I won't be able to get security updates for my Windows on my new laptop? Am I going to have to pay more money just to get Windows to work properly and stay up-to-date? I'm feeling very concerned.
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Wow. That’s some instructions, i thought you’d given up on me😀
So Thankyou .
I have nearly sorted all my files now except iTunes.
Only got small c drive.. but big d drive .
I will take a look in the morning.
I’m a mainly plug and play,and never done a restore point in 20 years….!
Thanks again .
Martin
If you're still having the same problem, you have some other issue. You can always do the following. It helps sometimes.
Click the "Create..." button to Create a restore point right now for the drives that have system protection turned on. Normally it's just the boot drive. You can utilize that to accomplish a system restore if something goes wrong later on. I like to create Restore Points from time to time in order to restore the system back to an earlier point in time when the system was working fine. It does take awhile for the Restore Point to get created as well as restoring it at a later time. Additional information can be found at: https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-repair-windows-11/
Open the CMD prompt in administrator mode:
**** \*\* The scanhealth command will check the Windows image for component store issues.
If any issues are detected, enter the following text and press **Enter** to fix them:
There are a lot of other things that can be done to help you get your operating system into a working healthy condition. Read over https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-repair-windows-11/ and accomplish these steps. The ones I typed above are from that document.
If you're still having issues, you are more than likely having some hardware issues like your memory sticks might be bad or your hard drive has problems. Have you defragged your drive(s) lately? You can always utilize the Tools found in the Properties for the C Drive. That might help. The error checking and defragging will run after you restart your computer.
Hope it helps.
Chuck
If I still have the same problem what was the point of me buying the same thing?
The times I've complained about this stupid laptop it's still doing the same thing Freezing, jumping, to another program and getting this circle YouTube. I feel like throwing it at the wall. I've even been out and bought new laptops. And I am still having the same problem
I had a similar issue. Windows Update also said I was missing important updates but wouldn't actually show me any updates that I could download when checking. I was stuck on 21H2. Downloaded the x64 version ISO of Windows 11 from Download Windows 11. Mounted the ISO and installed. I'm now on 24H2 with new Windows Updates downloading as I type this.