How to upgrade please

I suggest you use a Repair install [aka In-place upgrade] procedure to raise you to the current Version 22H2.
Whilst you ought to make a new system image & backup your own files before you start [as a safeguard] your application & data should not be affected.
After that is done, Windows update will run two or three current updates.
- I download them manually so I can run them on my three computers.
- If you have a fast internet connection then you might as well let WU handle the update job.

To do a repair install:-
1 Download the ISO - use one of the sources identified in Download Windows 10 ISO File -TenForumsTutorials
2 You can run a Repair install directly from the downloaded ISO file as well as from an InstallUSB but, in both cases, you boot into Windows normally not from the USB-
Repair Install - TenForumsTutorials


For info, for future reference -
You will only ever need to consider making an InstallUSB [or DVD] if you want to run a clean install [or to carry out specific repairs such as Startup repairs] - Create Bootable Installation USB - TenForumsTutorials
Clean Install - TenForumsTutorials and, in preparation for one, consider Backup and Restore Device Drivers - TenForumsTutorials
Startup Repair - TenForumsTutorials



Denis

Your version is so old that it won't update so a reinstall may be the only way

Before making ANY change, take precautions. A full backup (e.g. to removable external disk) is ALWAYS an excellent idea.
I don't just mean of your own files, but the whole system- so you can recover even if the disk fails, the PC blows up and you need a new one or you have some other unrecoverable problem.

If you haven't yet started to use 3rd party disk imaging (that creates a compressed copy of the used part of the selected partitions in a file written to e.g. a large enough external disk) - then doing so BEFORE attempting the upgrade would be an excellent idea.

Probably the simplest program for you would be AOMEI Backupper (free version).
You'd also need a large enough external disk - say twice the size of the data you're backing up to allow for ongoing use and expansion.


Whilst updating SHOULD be relatively straightforward, there is likely to be at least one recent update that won't succeed (it fails for many). This one, should it occur, can be ignored ('hidden') - i.e. there is a way for you to 'hide' it.

Samuria said:

Your version is so old that it won't update so a reinstall may be the only way

Windows update path from the original Windows 10, build 10240 version 1507....









I had to run disk cleanup to delete previous Windows installations here before the next update would come through:

NavyLCDR said:

It has to go from 10240 to 20H2 first as that was the last Feature Update to use a full install, replacing system files with the new ones. All subsequent Feature Updates were by means of an Enablement Package, and 22H2 should shortly be offered to this 20H2 through Windows Update.