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# Bypass Windows ESU

* A project to bypass Extended Security Updates eligibility check for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

- Win7/Win2k8R2 official support and updates ended on 14 January 2020.

However, Microsoft will provide additional 3 years of security updates to the organizations and businesses which have paid the license for the ESU.
More details:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4527878

This project helps bypassing this restriction and install ESU updates without purchasing a license, as a proof of concept, non-profit, consumer-targeted.

## Important Notes

* ESU updates are not supported offline (you cannot integrate them), they must be installed online on live system.

- The ESU eligibilty is only checked during update installation, therefore, you can choose to keep the bypass installed, or remove it afterwards.

* The bypass will only allow to install the ESU updates, it will not permit to get the updates themselves via Windows Update.

- You can acquire and download the updates manually from Microsoft Update Catalog site
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com

* You can track the updates KB numbers, either check the official Update History page
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4009469

or follow this MDL thread
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/19461/

## How to Use

* Extract the pack contents to a folder with simple path

- Install: right-click on installer.bat and "Run as administrator"

* Remove : right-click on remover.bat and "Run as administrator"

- Note: If you have previous version(s) installed, you don't need to remove it separately,
scripts from latest version can be used to remove previous versions, or install on top of them.

## More Info

- The project supports **all Win7/Win2k8R2 editions**, it consist of two tools that work in similar concept:

for ESU-supported editions, Custom slc.dll will be used

for all other editions, IFEO BypassESU.dll will be used

you can also force the use of BypassESU.dll for ESU-supported editions:
edit installer.bat prior running, and change set ForceHook to 1

* ESU-supported editions:

Client: Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate (including N and E variants)

Server: Standard, Datacenter, Enterprise (including Full, Core and without Hyper-V variants)

- ESU bypass tools comparison:
Code:
------------------- | -------------- | ------------------ | -------------------------
Compare / Tool      | Custom slc.dll | IFEO BypassESU.dll | Avfr gesu.dll (deprecated)
------------------- | -------------- | ------------------ | -------------------------
Supported Editions  | ESU-supported  | ALL                | ALL
AV Interoperability | Safe           | Unfriendly         | Friendly
Performance Impact  | None           | Slight to None     | Slowdown TrustedInstaller
------------------- | -------------- | ------------------ | -------------------------

* Avfr gesu.dll is deprecated and no longer works.
- Source code included in bin\src folder

* For extra info, see ReadMe.txt

## Credits

* Custom slc.dll : IMI Kurwica
* BypassESU.dll : MDL Collaborators
* superUser : mspaintmsi

## Download

Code:
   File: BypassESU-v4.7z
  SHA-1: 1ab6da15de065e0d5a414293902b671de11bb067
SHA-256: be52204bd904643afb45f0fe0321e31942476a8819a8dd6e441040a90e377027

7z file password: 2020

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