TiedtoTheTea: My dude, I don't mean to be rude, but just update your Windows. It's not that hard, and it's just fine. I used to be running 1505, and now am on 20H2. If you can't use Windows Update, download Windows 10 Update Assistant, it's on the Microsoft support site and it's literally free. Might take an hour, but it's 100% worth it.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Peace and love, dude. take care
I'll have to disagree with you.
Maybe if you use the system JUST for gaming - sure, this is the easiest solution. But if you have tons of software that changes the system in one way or another - this may be much more trouble than it's worth.
For example, I make music as a hobby, with tons of VSTs installed, and an unofficial audio driver (not ASIO, btw), and updating/reinstalling Windows completely messed up my sound quality, and I was unable to fix it. Maybe if I spent several days trying to pinpoint the issue - I cound have made it work, but instead I had to revert the Windows. First time - through simple rollback, and the second time - through the whole drive image, which I'm really glad I was paranoid enough to make, because I was really close to losing my mind when the first rollback failed.
I know that my situation is a bit specific, but you have to understand that most people that decided to stick to 1607 have their own valid reasons to do so.
So yeah. Sometimes updating is just not worth the trouble, and that's why I'll rather NOT play the game, and stick to the older Winows without any feature updates.
The only way I'm ever going to update - when I'll get another SSD, to install the new Windows as a secondary OS, and then play around with it without praying to every deity that my backup successfully reverts the system back to working state.