They offered the free upgrade for something like 7 years, and you finally decide to upgrade after they’ve stopped allowing it.

Wow…

Same thing happened to a friend of mine, turns out he was tryna open a shortcut stored on his USB on my computer

software devs and microsoft being lil bitches, but essentially doing their jobs to prevent zero day and your computer from possibly breaking

those vendors can’t stop you from downgrading to run the software, but keep in mind you risk the vulnerabilities of all the lurking bot shit out there waiting to break through from 1,000 diff. angles

Ie - Microsoft Picture It was very nice software and had great simple interface to easily tweak and crop photos beyond simplicity, but Microsoft got selfish and refused to allow newer versions of Win10 to even allow its installation of the software with known previous-discovery bug work arounds.

for those of you reading this, get your version of software right, with the correct seasonal update you wish to retain, and then keep a physical cloned SSD copy of it

it is getting increasingly harder to install the correct patches on legacy versions of operating systems, even with prior “installer driver” software because of the complexity and reliance of some internet related updates that are being blocked by vendors and its servers
Ie - WinXP, Win7, Win8.1, Win10 early season updates and specific timed vendor software releases