Hi,
I have a couple of older laptops that are running windows 8.
Loads of stuff, specifically chrome and steam, are pestering me to update to windows 10 or they won't work.
How do I actually update to windows 10? I've long chucked any documents for both laptops assuming they would break before this was an issue.
There are loads of licence keys on amazon, are they likely to be legitimate?
I'm looking for the simplest shortest solution that is legitimate and will not be any more hassle than it needs to be.
It seems I have to upgrade them from windows 8 to 10 and then to 11 as windows 10 is also coming to the end of its updates next year.
Thanks for any help.
for instance this site. How do tell if its a legitimate software selling site?
You'll probably be out of luck going to Win 11 on a computer of that age, there's a special security chip needed that wasn't envisaged back when Win 8 was a thing. Windows 10 should be receiving security updates for a good while yet IIRC.
You don't need a licence.
Grab the ISO off Microsoft's website, there's a 'media creation tool' which will burn it to a USB pendrive.
Best practice would be to take this opportunity to upgrade to an SSD if they don't already have one, if nothing else this gives you a solid fallback if it all goes pearshaped.
Windows 11 has different system requirements from W7-W10, it's entirely possible that your machine(s) won't run it.
You’ll probably be out of luck going to Win 11 on a computer of that age, there’s a special security chip needed that wasn’t envisaged back when Win 8 was a thing.
Not only that, W11 won't oficially run on sky/kaby Intel CPU's or older. (6th/7th gen). I'm not sure what the deal is with AMD CPU's.
