Now, Microsoft is providing support only for Intel’s Kaby Lake and AMD’s Ryzen that work on Windows 10. The company says that this decision is purely business, and not a technical one to force users to upgrade to Windows 10. Despite that, a large number of users are not happy at all with this situation. In this article, we’re going to show you a trick in order to bypass this limitation and install all updates including the ones that are currently prevented from being installed on these CPUs. A GitHub developer named “zeffy” has decided to change things with the ability to install the “locked” update packs on modern hardware after patching some files. On his page, the developer explained in detail the way he discovered some special programming functions: ‘IsDeviceSerciveable(void)’ and ‘IsCPUSupported(void)’, both of which can be found in the wuaueng.dll DLL library from the OS. These two functions perform a hardware check and are the ones responsible for locking the CPS and preventing updates from being installed. There are some easy ways for killing this CPU check presented on zeffy’s GitHub page: To grab the patches, simply go to zeffy’s GitHub page. These solutions are only temporary as we’re pretty sure that Microsoft is going to also “fix” this ability soon and lock the Windows Update ability with even more complicated implementations. RELATED STORIES TO CHECK OUT:
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