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LTSC conversion and modification guide

If you're still on Windows 10, then very clearly you have no interest in "Upgrading" to Windows 11, and Linux isn't something you want to use yet.

Following this comprehensive guide, you too can take a copy of Windows 10, upgrade the edition to Enterprise, and give yourself a fresh start with software. This should buy you enough time to get good with an open-source alternative, or wait until Microsoft learns their lesson and… yeah right. Just use a Linux already for pete sake but if you cannot do that, then this guidance should help you get along with your computer much better, after it quits trying to promote absolute garbage to you.

Prior considerations and disclaimers

You don't necessarily need to back up your files in %userprofile% but you might want to. While ideally, everything from a former Windows installation should end up in a separate location at %systemdrive%

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Windows 10 post-life exodus plan

While Microsoft's WIndows 10 isn't completely dead (yet), after October 14th 2025, free support for Windows users on the general availability channel (GAC, which is basically all of us) will have expired, which for most people will effectively mean Windows 10 is finished. While there are Extended Support Updates (ESU) which could be obtained for free, as-well Enterprise Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC), we'll begin tame with things which don't require you take your moral compass south of the border, and if you really need to, or don't mind sticking it to "The Man" after paying thousand of dollars already toward an American multi-national which has proven to not care so dearly about you and your machine, those options will be covered later on in this writ.

This guidance is meant for somebody with zero comprehension and understanding about computers from the start, and will cover the following:

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