Trying to upgrade Windows 10

EQueens123 said:

Oh, silly me - but of course. So, I'm guessing with using Windows 7 I might not be able to do proper upgrades of the mother board items?

Quite possible. The issue in computing has at times been described as "planned obsolescence" but in practical terms when a product is no longer produced or sold there is no money coming in to keep support or pay programmers to update software. Progress in technology makes changes and not everything keeps up with it, sometimes the go-back machine doesn't work. One item I have on a couple of older Notebooks is a PCMCIA card slot and an Express Card slot [similar items] for which no software is available for running on Win10. I can recall times in building computers in a shop where the computing speed was too fast in the boot process for the HDDs available, had to set the BIOS to show the full boot process so as to allow the HDD to get up to full speed/spin-up in time for the OS to load, CPUs were getting faster.

New hardware with drivers designed to run Windows 10 primarily.

You said the one you have is 10 years old so it was designed for Vista/Windows 7. Some of it's drivers are still from that era even when you installed Windows 10 and updated as many drivers as you could. Manufacturers did not release Windows 10 drivers for all their hardware.

That's a low end laptop. I hope you upgraded the ram from 4GB to at least 8GB.

7th Generation AMD E2-9000 Processor with Radeon R2 Graphics.

Good luck though. Should be smoother than your older laptop.

Use the Media Creation Tool to download the ISO. Right click on the ISO and select Mount. Run Setup from the mounted ISO. No need to ever download the files more than once.

That laptop comes with McAfee, Disable it until 1803 is installed.

This has been a real trial for you, not surprised you are forgetting things.

Just do one thing at a time and be patient, it will work out, and no, I'm not an optimist, I'm a learnfromexperienceist

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