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To: Chartgod who wrote (1313)	10/24/2025 12:11:49 PM
From: S. maltophilia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1316

Defender updated definitions last night as a parting gift. That's the only one today in my Update history. A decent antivirus will continue to update Win 10 machines. Seems like my Win 10 desktop has been logging me in slower for the last month or so in the morning, and generally slower in general. I can't find any issues, and it's not running hot. Maybe a previous update had a throttle feature, but I can't prove it.

To: Chartgod who wrote (1313)	10/24/2025 5:39:26 PM
From: nicewatch	Respond to of 1316

No issues here. But cannot speak to Win7 Pro, none of my machines still run that, all run Win10 Pro, and 1.5 run Win11 Pro but I rarely use those! :-) Presume you did the free ESL for Win10? That's what I did and was ready to pay the $30 for 10 machines but the process went such that it was free for all of them. Win10 ESL has already had update(s) since the "official" cutoff date the other week. On my main two laptops they updated fine and rebooted fine. The rest have not updated all yet but turned some off and on without issue but I don't use the auto update feature. That only wants to force itself once a month ime and then sometimes I pause it for weeks on end if uncomfortable but no issues anywhere, yet. -gulp- Generally keep my browsers and other front-facing internet related programs up to date for obvious reasons. The two main laptops are almost always on 24/7 but if away for hours or more or sleeping, I physically disconnect from the internet, and the screen and monitors go into sleep mode. They have SATA3 SSD and NVME SSD as the OS drives. No longer use HDD in any laptops, only SATA3 SSD as older OS drive and in some cases as slave drives for massive data and media storage. fwiw. P.S. still use large capacity HDD as legacy storage whether external for anything, or internal for the few desktops I still use.