Recent content by PennsyNut

Goht: I'll keep that in mind for now. As I said, I'll try the upgrade as simple as I know how. So that, if I mess it up, I can blame it on myself. Speccy can wait. I'm not brushing you off, I'm just getting to the point of trying the upgrade first. Don't take this as not listening to you. I have...

CountMike: That sounds familiar. When I lost something like that, I was dismayed and wondered why PC's had to be so darn complicated. This having more than one way to do something is hard to grasp by a lay person.

I did have a PC with W 3.1. And not enough power to get email. I had to use a simple email server that I could only use text on. After a few months of that, received an offer from my sister to buy a new one. Don't even remember what W, maybe 95? And at that same time, work brought in W 95, but...

OK TO ALL: Within the next few days, I will make this attempt to upgrade. If I have a problem I will be back. And if it's successful, I will also be back. I do want to thank each and every one that has helped. I know y'all have good intentions. I try to keep that in mind. I just wish I had taken...

One further message. If I were to try to attach the specs of the laptop, I doubt if there's enough room to attach the entire "Speccy". So, tell me what specs you need? It's a Dell, Intel, 8 GB. I use it 99% offline, no printer connection. Just online for updates. Didn't this show how many...

Wow! A lot of what y'all are asking/recommending is way over my head. What's a Bitlocker? What's a recovery partition? What's an ISO? What's unmount the ISO? What's a program like Macrium Reflect or AOMEI Backupper Standard? I do back up with flash drives. As many flash drives as necessary. I...

Here's Disk Management from laptop/W 10. Does that help? Prove anything?

My main concern is that I do NOT want to have to reinstall LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox, Foxit, etc. When I bought this new desktop with W11, I had to re-install everything. It took me over a week to get it the way I had it on W 10. With the laptop, and the darn stupid awkward keyboard...

To clarify my previous message, here's the screen shot from the laptop. More to follow based upon Bree's response.

I tried. The laptop responds to "Disk Management.msc" with an error message: You do not have rights to Disk Management on DESKTOP-24FIGOJ." And of course, being a normal human being. I don't have the slightest idea of what that means. That error message says "DESKTOP" and it's not, it's a...

Whoops. Sorry. That was off my desktop. Laptop don't have email or such. I have to go to the laptop, scan the DM and bring it over to here to send. Ignore previous image.

Is this what you want?

I think I understand. You are saying it might or might not be a problem. But isn't there a way to know for sure? Since this is based upon the upgrade being offered direct via Windows update? My thinking is that it should be no problem because of that. But yes, we know that Microsoft don't always...

I apologize if this was posted before. I did simple search and that didn't help. I have a laptop with W 10 that says it's ready for W 11. When I do Windows Update, it offers to upgrade to W 11. So I know it's ready. My question, and I'd like a yes or no. Can I do the upgrade that way - and not...

antspants: I know I said I would not come back. But your response told me I was wrong to jump to conclusions. I sincerely apologize to you, antspants. Now, I need to be sure I have what I "might need in the future". The first, which is not W11, but W10. Say's it's W 10 MCT for 22H2. I'm not sure...