If you want to continue using Windows 10 safely after October 2025—and if an upgrade to Windows 11 is off the table for you—then you should know that Microsoft offers three different options (see below) for extending security updates for Windows 10. To extend security updates, you’ll have to click on a button in Windows 10’s system settings. However, Microsoft has been slow to roll out the menu required for this.
In principle, the menu for extending Windows 10 support—the so-called “Enroll now (ESU)” wizard—has been appearing since the end of July 2025. However, the number of users who are actually seeing the extension offer is still lagging behind and yet to catch up, reports Windows Latest.
You can find this ESU wizard in the Windows Update page on your Windows 10 PC as soon as Microsoft activates it for your computer. When this screen is finally available, it’ll present you with the three options for receiving extended updates. By selecting one of the three options, you can secure another year of Windows 10 security updates.
As of today, however, only some Windows 10 users are seeing the menu. Microsoft says it’s gradually rolling out the ESU wizard to Windows 10 users, and users can’t influence when they’ll get it themselves. They must wait for Microsoft to release the ESU wizard for them. As of now, there’s still plenty of time to extend updates as registration for the extended support period is possible until October 13th, 2025.
A few months ago, Microsoft announced that it wouldn’t be ending support for Windows 10 in October 2025 (which was the original plan). Instead, Windows 10 users now have three different options—two of which are free—to continue using Windows 10 with security updates. Unofficially, there’s yet another option: using the free app called UpDownTool.
While Microsoft has been slow to roll out the ESU wizard to users, the company has been quick to annoy users with notices about the imminent end of support for Windows 10.
Most recently, Microsoft started showing full-screen reminders to Windows 10 users that “it’s time to upgrade your PC before the end of support.” It’s a tricky message since the button to start the upgrade to Windows 11 is prominently displayed while the “Keep Windows 10” button is very small and almost hidden in the corner.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
