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Does Windows 10 work on an old computer?
I help a friend on her W10, a laptop "less than 10years old". Let's assume its 8 years old. It repeatedly operates oddly in carrying out certain actions although it never throws an error message nor has a hissy fit. An example:
SD card in camera connected by USB reader to computer. Its drive appears on the laptop's list of drives in "This PC" and it has 12 folders, each of 10 files. All 12 folders are listed in a window on the Desktop and each folder's files can be seen on opening the folders. I select all the folders (Left click on the top one, SHIFT+Click on the bottom). Then LEFT click on one of the selected folders, hold and drag towards the Recycle bin. On the way a pointer message reads "Copy here" as it goes over the Desktop etc. As it goes on to the Recycle Bin's icon that message disappears (it should read "Move to Recycle Bin"). I release the laptop's button. No effect either in the source or target locations.
Another example: As above but instead of going to the Recycle Bin I drop the folders on to another open folder on the Desktop. That open folder now shows the 12 files (only) that are in the first folder on the card, no sign of its enclosing folder nor any sign of the other folders or their contents on the SD card. Therefore, only the 10 files in the first folder have been copied.
This is abnormal. I do this sort of action successfully nearly every day on my W10 desktop computer. There is another different action which is abnormal but I can't remember what it is.
Why is this happening on this computer? I have heard from several sources that any computer older than say 4 years or so is not suitable for running W10 (reportedly because it is a modern OS that "stresses" the hardware more than say W7 does). Is the age of the laptop the reason?
Thanks.
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