Windows updates

[king1]

all good, it's just a fact of life these days though about the size of the updates, luckily the big ones are only twice a year...

End of support for win10 is October 2025 so plenty of time still, probably another 6 months after that you'd get away with... There are 'hacks' to bypass some of the hardware requirements but you need to know what your doing and there is no guarantee they won't cause issues down the track, so probably not worth mentioning...

All good. The restart took well over an hour but everything is fine and my low data warning came up but it's only a couple of days to go before renewal.

Happy to go without the hacks for a Win 11 upgrade on the old computer. I can follow instructions, but don't want to risk issues down the track. My biggest priority is to have trouble-free computing. My main need for Win 11 is a software subscription that I realised is no longer updating correctly and it turns out that the latest version needs Win 11. I'm also aware that the current SSD is getting old so I'm starting to think and look at what I need, but not rushing in yet.

Thanks for your help.

that software subscription sounds interesting, what is it for?  I can't imagine any software these days that require only Windows 11 when windows 10 is still very much current...

SSD samsung 870evos are good, and the price of them has come down a bit the last month or so