Microsoft will seed hundreds of millions of Windows 7 PCs next month with a nag notice reminding their owners that older editions of Internet Explorer (IE) are being dropped from the company’s support list, a recently-published support document announced.

The Redmond, Wash. firm is giving an early warning of the impending notices so that enterprises have time to tweak the Windows registry on affected PCs to disable the nags. By long practice, Microsoft FYIs its corporate customers at least 30 days prior to major changes like this.

On Jan. 12, Microsoft will deliver the final security updates for IE8, IE9 and IE10 on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to make good on an August 2014 decision that it would shut down patches and other forms of support for those browsers on Windows 7.

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