Computer help please 2025

[Brummie a long time ago]

All very interesting......

I have a gut feeling that linux is not your route to peace and tranquility. W10 support ends October 14th. However, read this link to see how to extend it to October 2026. It is a bit alarmist, but does give you the steps to take.

Here's how you can extend Windows 10 support for free before end-of-life in a few clicks

Windows 10's official support will end soon, on October 14, but here's how you can extend it for free in a few clicks in Windows settings.

www.pcguide.com

I haven't verified those instructions.

Then you perhaps need to suss out using your currently vacant D: drive.

Andrew.

 

[Morturn]

I have a gut feeling that linux is not your route to peace and tranquility. W10 support ends October 14th. However, read this link to see how to extend it to October 2026. It is a bit alarmist, but does give you the steps to take.

Here's how you can extend Windows 10 support for free before end-of-life in a few clicks

Windows 10's official support will end soon, on October 14, but here's how you can extend it for free in a few clicks in Windows settings.

www.pcguide.com

I haven't verified those instructions.

Then you perhaps need to suss out using your currently vacant D: drive.

Andrew.

Your right it not. Linux is fine if you like that sort of thing, but it has limitations, as does the PC and the MAC.

It does give a platform for the pantomime arguments to the ones that are capable of having an argument with themselves in an empty room.

Such as the MAC v a PC or the Amega or a Canon camera v Nikon or or or and the list goes on.

I have just done 4 Windows 11 upgrades. A couple of laptops with windows 10 that looked like a Marvel comic with all of the windows bloat. Now a clean install of windows 11 with no bloat and configured to work like Windows 7.

I had two more later that windows 10 said it was said could not be updated. £2k worth of computer ready for the tip, I think not. These two were configured to the old CSM legacy mode which would have stopped the boot process switching from the old "Legacy" mode to the modern "UEFI" mode.

A few tweaks to the BIOS and a stepped flash update to the latest version and I was able to do a clean debloated install.

 

[Radiorails]

You can buy computers without an operating system. I have done so. All you need to make it work is an iso or CD with an operating system of you choice.
A useful place to start would be The Linux Shop web site
https://thelinuxshop.co.uk
Linux generally does not require ante virus systems as Linux has no registry as Windows does, in fact they advise against it.

 

[Richard Dye]

All my data and photos are on an external drive.

An$ external drives are so inexpensive. When you buy, get a little more capacity than you think you will need.