Windows-10

Updated October 2026: Windows 10 reached end of support on 14 October 2025. Machines still on it get no security updates unless enrolled in Extended Security Updates, so forcing the upgrade is now the sensible default rather than a way to jump a queue. The Installation Assistant steps below still work. My two older posts on forcing the Windows 10 2004 and 20H2 feature updates have been folded into the end of this page, since those updates no longer matter. ...

I recently moved to a new Windows 10 laptop and experience a number of problems with my Bose SoundLink II, Bluetooth headphones. Fortunately, after some playing around with drivers I was able to solve my problem and this post explains how… The Problem Poor sound quality – with the default drivers, the sound quality was poor and there was a considerable amount of audible noise being delivered to the headphones via the Bluetooth interface. The audio was very lo-fi and the frequency range was dramatically reduced. This resulted in a very thin, tinny sound. ...