Support for Windows 10 officially ended October 14th, and since then most users should have already received Extended Security Updates (ESU) if they registered for them. However, for some, the ESU login window never appeared, which can certainly be a problem.

Yesterday, on November’s big patch day, Microsoft provided a fix for a zero-day vulnerability that’s being exploited in the wild. Windows 10 users should definitely install this, but it isn’t possible without ESU active—and that isn’t possible without the ESU login!

Fortunately, to coincide with the November patch, Microsoft has finally delivered a fix for blocked ESU updates. Update KB5071959 is being delivered as an emergency out-of-band fix (meaning it’s on top of the usual update release schedule) for errors with ESU registr

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