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Computer help please 2025

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.


I haven't verified those instructions.

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

Andrew.
 
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.


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.
 
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.
 
Just because Microsoft no longer provides updates to an operating system doesn't mean the computer will stop working. It will be exposed to more internet threats but, if you're reasonably careful, these don't mean so much.
Most people think Linux is something obscure that no-one has ever seen apart from a few techies. If you've got a phone or a tablet that isn't Apple, you've probably used one version of it (Android). So all you're dealing with is something like that for a PC.
 
are free ones any good?
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Do you need a Microsoft account to upgrade to 11?

Haven't done so yet.
Microsoft are trying to make people do this and have just done an update that removed the registry features that enable running a windows 11 on a local account. There are ways to circumnavigate this but it’s a matter of choice. Without an account you do lose some security features, so I prefer to go down the route of having an account but do some serious debloating of the Microsoft spyware and apps. It’s what works for you in the end.
 
i might just buy a new win 11 pc cat be doing with fafing about
Don’t chuck out a working PC if you can update it, it may only be the BIOS settings. Do you know the model of the Motherboard Pete. You can type System information into the search bar to find it.
 
Just because Microsoft no longer provides updates to an operating system doesn't mean the computer will stop working. It will be exposed to more internet threats but, if you're reasonably careful, these don't mean so much.
Most people think Linux is something obscure that no-one has ever seen apart from a few techies. If you've got a phone or a tablet that isn't Apple, you've probably used one version of it (Android). So all you're dealing with is something like that for a PC.
Absolutely true. This guy has some good advice for anyone worried about keeping on using Windows 10...


 
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