As the title says. I’m just curious what’s triggering it. There is no MS Office installed. Happens as soon i start a windows10 pc and it’s “packed” into svchost. Any idea?

  • @KillerTofu
    2•7 months ago

    Thank you! Do you know if the LTSC version is impacted by the October 2025 sundown date?

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•7 months ago

      “Windows 10 GAC (General Availability Channel) (i.e. Home, Pro) will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. So, if your hardware doesn’t support Windows 11 then you might wanna use Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 since its supported until Jan 13, 2032” from https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links

    • @[email protected]
      0•7 months ago

      No idea.

      I’ve never cared about such things for home systems - I never use MS support, and I think updates are over emphasized for stability and security, as that ignores the other layers that are required.

      If a system runs, does what I need it to do, I’m uninterested in making changes that run the risk of causing issues (for example, I have containers for things like Syncthing that don’t get auto updates - I need to know that it works the same all the time, as it keeps mobile devices syncing their data to home, which gets backed up). I check updates 2x/year, and manually update if I feel it’s useful (sometimes updates aren’t available for all systems, which can break things).

      All my systems are properly secured, behind multiple layers of security (physical firewall, isolated vlans, VPN, with encryption enabled wherever it’s available, etc), I run in limited user accounts, my admin accounts aren’t obvious, with proper complex passwords, everything is encrypted, properly replicated and backed up.

      My next phase is adding 2FA even for my home servers.