Your version of windows 11 has reached the end of service. click to download a newer version of windows 11 to stay supported.

Anonymous
2024-12-06T12:07:08+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-18T13:22:42+00:00

    Absolutely right. What version of Windows 11 are you running now? Run winver to obtain the version of Windows your system is running. If Windows Update can’t upgrade to 24H2, try to download and upgrade the UEFI with the latest BIOS for your motherboard. The Windows 11 operating system should upgrade to version 24H2. If it doesn’t or won’t, you’ll have to reinstall Windows 11 from the Windows 11 Update Assistant after you burn the Windows ISO to a DVD or to a thumb drive. After backing up everything you want to keep to another drive boot up from the new Windows 11 disk or thumb drive and re-install Windows 11 as well as all the apps from your backup drive.

    Good luck.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-17T09:47:54+00:00

    No sorry. The processor is not supported so you cannot use the assistant.

    Was the laptop brand new and supplied with Windows 11 from the manufacturer. I believe non supported hardware workarounds in 24H2 are being restricted.

    Did someone install Windows 11 when it should have had Windows 10?

    As you cannot use the assistant then you can try the ISO image file to carry out an in-place upgrade. However there may be issues even if it does work.

    Download the ISO image from the same site you used to get the assistant and once downloaded open File Explorer and mount the ISO. You will see a new drive letter appear, select that and run setup then follow the prompts.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-17T08:34:12+00:00

    I downloaded the windows update assistant and the windows health app after it displayed that the processor doesn't support windows 11 the laptop came with windows 11 it has an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz 2.90 GHz it should support windows 11 right?

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-16T14:49:05+00:00

    I'm also wondering why they bought Surface 4 Pro which AFAIK is nearly 10 years old tech wise! Fortunately, the Surface Pros usually had quite leading edge CPU and these have 16GB RAM so their benchmark speeds aren't bad. That said, only 4 core/8 threads so middle of the road.

    Later... I've worked out why - they're pretty cheap so if you're okay with relatively old hardware, they're a good buy for the small form factor.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-16T14:23:16+00:00

    Yes, it can be done by downloading the ISO, but no one on this thread has an answer as to why this is necessary. It seems to be a major failure on Microsoft's part. Perhaps if you leave it and forget about it, Microsoft will come up with a fix that will update it eventually. But the message is ominous and disturbing to the casual user.

    I ran into the same thing after doing a clean install of Win11 using a USB stick that was created some time ago. Never had this problem with Windows 10 no matter how old the version of 10 that was installed, it would update automatically to the latest version.

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