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Here is a tip: leave the wife at home.

Cleaning the garage where I had all these PC parts stored. I have them in one big box. The box includes hard drives, USB hubs, cables, fans, heat sinks, heat sinks + fans, CPU's, add-on cards, adapters, etc. Some parts are brand new still in the original box. $25 Again this is LOCAL only within...

How much life is left on the drive?

Widgets now working. I guess I had to reboot the laptop twice. Seems a bit faster than 10 on this old Dell N7110 which was released back in 2011. Dell does not even have drivers for Windows 10. This model only supports 7 and 8. On the video driver for Intel HD Graphics 3000, I had to go in and...

Followed the instructions and got 11 23H2 installed. Took about 45 minutes from start to finish. The only item that does not work is widgets. Wants met to sign in, but this is a local account. Widgets worked in 10 on this same laptop. Not a big deal. The other item was my thumb drive. I had to...

Thanks for that info. I'm just interested if it can be done. The laptop currently has an i5 cpu, but I'm also upgrading the cpu to an i7 quad core.

I have an old Dell N7110 laptop. It has the latest BIOS, but does not have UEFI or support GPT. It supports only MBR. I'm pretty sure I can install 11 on a fresh install using Rufus that will bypass the UEFI, TPM, and CPU requirement, but can I do an upgrade from 10 to 11 on this same machine...

Got it to work. At the prompt for a DVD, I simply pointed to the ISO file again and it started.

It's on my Dell laptop running Windows 11 (Dell G5 SE 5505).

Could not get Bazzite to install and boot in VirtualBox. Tried twice with the same error - no bootable device

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So is Bazzite a standalone Linux distro?

When 10 ends next year, will they still issue updates for Windows Security?

Thanks for that. Mine came back as retail.