Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC. Legacy Update continues support where Microsoft left off. By @kirb.me https://legacyupdate.net · https://legacyupdate.net/discordhttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.nethttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3mly4qummsk2g🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.13.1 fixes a few bugs introduced in 1.13, and adds workarounds for issues with some Lenovo devices and Intel Macs. It also addresses a potential security issue. https://legacyupdate.net/news/2026/05/16/legacy-update-1-13-116 May 2026 15:06 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mly4qummsk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3mly4qummsk2g🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.13.1 fixes a few bugs introduced in 1.13, and adds workarounds for issues with some Lenovo devices and Intel Macs. It also addresses a potential security issue. https://legacyupdate.net/news/2026/05/16/legacy-update-1-13-116 May 2026 15:06 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mly4qummsk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3mhabjmh6gs2wFeatures nobody asked for: You can now subscribe to Legacy Update news as an Internet Explorer Web Slice. Just click the green button in the toolbar (it’s green to show that Internet Explorer is really excited a website is actually using this feature), or the Add Web Slice link in our News section.17 Mar 2026 05:47 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhabjmh6gs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3mh6ujtbhuk2u🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.13 improves handling of some edge cases you might run into while using Legacy Update. It includes 23 fixes and improvements (and plenty more small changes). https://legacyupdate.net/news/2026/03/16/legacy-update-1-1316 Mar 2026 16:22 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6ujtbhuk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3mgt63vu5ls2tMozilla extended support for Firefox 115 ESR on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 and macOS 10.12 – 10.14 until August. It was due to end support last month, and they may consider extending it again. Firefox ESRs are old versions that continue getting security updates. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support12 Mar 2026 00:41 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgt63vu5ls2thttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3meln3e7pa223Introducing our improved website: If it seems like nothing has changed, that’s a good thing! I worked hard to build something that’s easier for me to maintain, while making sure everything is just as it was before. It will help us continue to expand our archive and help page resources. https://legacyupdate.net/news/2026/02/11/introducing-our-improved-website11 Feb 2026 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3meln3e7pa223https://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3mcdar3y6d22aToday, Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 (based on Windows Vista and 7) finally, truly reach end of support. Windows Vista and Server 2008 is the longest supported version of Windows, at 19 years. Behind it is Windows XP at 17 years, and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 at 16 years. https://support.microsoft.com/topic/january-13-2026-kb5073697-monthly-rollup-27ca43e9-2f31-4223-ae52-069dd473639313 Jan 2026 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcdar3y6d22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3mbuo32hrxs2tYou’ve been asking me for years, and I finally did it. Windows Live Essentials was a suite of free add-on software from Microsoft. It’s a perfect fit into the Windows 7 experience, but it’s been hard to find official download links. Now, we have them easily accessible on a dedicated page: https://legacyupdate.net/download-center/windows-live-essentials07 Jan 2026 23:54 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbuo32hrxs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3mbtjmq52ok2gWhat is the Silverlight logo supposed to be, anyway?07 Jan 2026 13:01 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbtjmq52ok2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3m7zy3ajjnk2sJust a little update after getting a lot of attention from the Download Center archive v2 launch. Thanks to everyone who helped to spread the word about it! https://www.patreon.com/posts/14566879615 Dec 2025 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7zy3ajjnk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3m6wj2qqtik2bLegacy Update has significantly expanded its archive of the Microsoft Download Center all the way back to 2012. It now indexes 41,000 downloads, of which over half have been deleted by Microsoft. More about what went into this, and what we’re still planning to do: https://www.patreon.com/posts/expanding-center-14477010501 Dec 2025 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6wj2qqtik2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3m3xxtucook2iJust a friendly reminder that, particularly when coming from search result summaries, AI only knows as much as it can glean from sources it deems to be authoritative. Often, those are news outlets that use clickbait, and put writers under pressure to push out articles without much critical thought.24 Oct 2025 22:55 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3xxtucook2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3m36pes3ass2hAfter 10 years, Windows 10 has reached end of support. Don’t panic. Your Windows 10 computers will not explode. You will not catch every piece of malware in existence. You should enrol in ESU, or switch to Windows 11 or Linux, but this is not the end of the world. Our guide on what to do now: https://legacyupdate.net/help/windows-10-end-of-support14 Oct 2025 21:47 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m36pes3ass2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3m2yw6lbtss2uWait, Windows 10 is legacy now? 😳 Windows 10 reaches end of support in a few days’ time, and there’s been an increasing number of questions about what will happen to Windows 10 and Windows Update. We put together a new guide to answer your questions: https://legacyupdate.net/help/windows-10-end-of-support12 Oct 2025 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2yw6lbtss2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3m27vzxidbs2cSo long, Windows Update website 🫡 This week, Microsoft took down the old Windows Update v6 web app entirely. It was a time capsule locked in the Microsoft.​com design from 2005. It’s been broken since 2021. You can still see it preserved through Windows Update Restored.02 Oct 2025 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m27vzxidbs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3lzyexg6k222t🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.12.1 fixes some issues from 1.12. (Surprisingly few issues for a big rewrite!) https://github.com/LegacyUpdate/LegacyUpdate/releases/tag/v1.12.1.0 More on 1.12 in the quoted post below 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Sep 2025 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzyexg6k222thttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3lzo73wa7gs2jSteam powered? No no, *Windows* powered25 Sep 2025 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzo73wa7gs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3lzlq4d5g6s23🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.12 is a huge rewrite release. We switched from compiling with Visual C++ 2008 (and 2010, and 2017, and 2022…), a setup which Microsoft recently broke, to a streamlined open-source MinGW/GCC toolchain. The result: 1.12 is 50% smaller than 1.11, which was already below 1 MB! https://github.com/LegacyUpdate/LegacyUpdate/releases/tag/v1.12.0.024 Sep 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzlq4d5g6s23https://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3lzj3mng5ts2vroot: boring, not scary at all, can just access it with sudo NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM: loud, asserts dominance, requires service hacks to access, shows The System is in charge23 Sep 2025 14:03 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzj3mng5ts2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3ltvesgdl3s2fLast week, apparently because a broken update was pushed, every running Windows Server on the planet with WSUS installed went and re-synced their entire database, causing a DDoS of Microsoft’s WSUS servers. Not a good past few weeks for Windows Update! https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-windows-server-update-services-wsus-sync-is-broken/14 Jul 2025 02:48 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltvesgdl3s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3lsx4tnhfdc2mGetting an error that the Windows Update service isn’t running, or is Microsoft Update not being enabled for you on Windows 7, 8, or 8.1? Microsoft just let a config file expire… *again*. It took 2 days for them to fix it in 2017 🤷‍♀️ We’re monitoring and will take action if they don’t fix it soon. https://github.com/LegacyUpdate/LegacyUpdate/issues/36902 Jul 2025 02:05 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsx4tnhfdc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3lsnbwgr73s2oWhat is going on with Windows Update and drivers? A fair few people asked me what is going on with Microsoft’s recent announcement that drivers will be deleted from Windows Update, so I wrote up some notes about it: https://adamdemasi.com/2025/06/28/what-is-going-on-with-windows-update-drivers.html28 Jun 2025 04:10 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsnbwgr73s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3ls4dbqkxsc2jWell, of course we’re not at the end of the Windows Update drivers saga. Like I’ve said before, I strongly believe this is to do with WSUS struggling with a huge database. Security is just a convenient additional benefit. Still a legitimate one though - old vulnerable drivers can be used by malware. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-remove-legacy-drivers-from-windows-update-for-security-boost/21 Jun 2025 10:19 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls4dbqkxsc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3lqblk7zgpk2dThis might seem huge, but I’ll point out that Microsoft already opened Windows Update to 3rd party apps 12 years ago. It’s called the Microsoft Store, and it uses Windows Update on the backend. This really rather shows Microsoft is terrible at convincing developers and users what’s good for them. https://www.theverge.com/news/675446/microsoft-windows-update-all-apps-orchestration-platform29 May 2025 01:40 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqblk7zgpk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3lpszwk6zhk2mUsing Legacy Update on Vista or Server 2008 and getting error 80244021? Don’t worry, it’s not just you. We’re looking into what we can do to fix it. I’ll be posting updates as we learn more about the issue here: https://github.com/LegacyUpdate/LegacyUpdate/issues/36023 May 2025 06:47 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpszwk6zhk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3lnjvh7db6k2fThe Microsoft Vulnerable Driver Blocklist, known for such hits as breaking your crappy RGB drivers, includes an Asus driver named AsHitIo_Drv.sys, or as Microsoft calls it, ASHITIO24 Apr 2025 04:43 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnjvh7db6k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/legacyupdate.net/post/3ln7wjskwds27Ever thought about how Windows Aero assumed desktop PCs would become thin clients, and servers would be empty glass rectangles?20 Apr 2025 05:35 +0000at://did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln7wjskwds27