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This sounds very like the issues I encounter with my old Acer 9301. Like you, it came with XP, I got the free Vista upgrade and ran that for many years. Then 8, 8.1 and Ten in various forms.
Ten is a problem. The installation gets almost to the end and then freezes with the circling dots progressing slowly and jerkily. From that point and if I leave things I can get to a normal desktop but it takes around 5 hours. The problem for me is the Atheros WifI driver that Ten installs by default. It locks the system up with excessive interrupts. Once I have the desktop up I can go into device manager and disable the Atheros driver. That restores normality and I can then install a working driver.
I run the 32 bit versions on the Acer. The anniversary update seemed to cause lots of disk thrashing and a generally poor user experience, its sluggish. The creators update I have failed to install. I've actually reverted to Vista again on that laptop and it runs like a dream all things considered, so much more snappy than Ten. Its really to old and the lack of driver support is crippling for it.
If your is an Atheros 5005G (I think thts how it shows in device manager) then I have a 32 bit WifI driver and also an NVidia graphics driver for the GeForce Go 6100 card.