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Microsoft’s full-screen Windows 7 upgrade prompts start next month

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Windows 7 end of support is January 14th, 2020

This week Patch for the month of December, which means that Windows 7 has exactly one update left before its end of support.

Microsoft has been notifying Windows 7 users about January’s end of support throughout 2019. Now, the company is making its notification prompts even bigger, as full-screen pop-ups to warn about the end of life of Windows 7. The full-screen notification will warn that “your Windows 7 PC is out of support,” and it will start appearing on January 15th, the day after support ends.

Microsoft will warn Windows 7 users who haven’t upgraded that PCs are “more vulnerable to viruses and malware” due to a lack of security and software updates and no tech support. There will be three options to dismiss the message, including the ability to remind later, learn more, or don’t remind again. The full-screen prompt will remain on the screen until a Windows 7 user has interacted with it.

Windows 7 support will end on January 14th, 2020, and Microsoft has been promoting Windows 10 as the main upgrade path for businesses and consumers. Windows 10 passed Windows 7 in market share earlier this year, and Microsoft’s latest operating system is now set to hit 1 billion devices next year.

Microsoft will support Enterprises and small businesses who sign up for Extended Security Updates until January 2023 with security updates. A method was discovered recently to install these patches on Home devices running Windows 7 but it is too early to tell whether it will remain an option after support ends officially. Third-party Patch plans to release some patches for Windows 7 for free as well.

The full-screen notification is part of this month's Patch Tuesday update, so if you don't want to see it after January 14, your only option is to not install the update and become unsecure a month early, which probably isn't a big deal if you're willing to run an unsecure PC a month from now.

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Disable the Windows 7 end of support popup

Use Windows-R to open the Run box. Type regedit to start the Registry Editor.

If an UAC prompt is displayed, confirm it.

Navigate to the following path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\EOSNotify

If the Dword value DiscontinueEOS is listed under EOSNotify, double-click it and set its value to 1.

If it is not yet, create the value (right-click on EOSNotify, select New >Dword  (32-bit) Value).

Selecting "don't remind me again" will set the DiscontinueEOS value to 1.

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