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Windows 10 Ends Today: October 14th, 2025

October 14, 2025 - Jerry Stern

Windows 10 Security patching ends today, when the last set of scheduled patches arrives sometime in the afternoon. Really? No. Windows 10 will still receive updates to Microsoft software installed [...]

Phish Spotting

October 10, 2025 - Jerry Stern

Phish are smarter with AI, more difficult to spot, but scammers are still relying on everyone who gets email to click and allow their hoaxes, because using non-Admin Windows accounts [...]

Windows Shortcuts, Again

September 17, 2025 - Jerry Stern

There are hundreds of Windows Shortcuts. Do you know Ctrl-Z? It’s UNDO. Here are the basics to memorize, and some new ones to consider learning. That, and more on Windows [...]

Windows 10 Extended Software Updates

September 9, 2025 - Jerry Stern

The option to get an additional year of security updates in Windows 10 has landed at the Microsoft store, above. That, and more on Windows Shortcuts, and Word will start [...]

For 23H2, The End is Near

August 25, 2025 - Jerry Stern

So many deadlines are coming soon. For Windows 11, watch out for the end of security updates of the 23H2 (2023 second half) feature edition, ending November 11, 2025. In [...]

Laptop Vacation Prep

August 11, 2025 - Jerry Stern

OK, you’re at the airport: Here’s how to prevent this mess. In the free August PC Updater News, learn how to pre-update your laptop, and set updates to not happen [...]

Ground Faults and PUP Attacks

July 24, 2025 - Jerry Stern

Your computer is under attack from seasonal storms. The basics of power protection are in the free July PC Updater News, and back issues are here. PUPs have taken over [...]

PUPs and Thunder

July 10, 2025 - Jerry Stern

A PUP is a Potentially Unwanted Program. That’s malware named by a diplomat. Read more in the free July newsletter: PC Updater News. And the back issues are here. And [...]