mike wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Still no explicit reason given as to why you need to move away from a
working setup using an older version of Windows to a non-working, flaky,
or unknown (from unknown sources) setup with a new version of Windows.

Lighten up!! It's a hobby.

So the old hardware is not critical. Keep playing with trying to fit a
square peg into a round hole. Tis possible you'll find a working jigsaw
to make the round hole big enough for the square peg to fit into it.

Making win10 and Linux yield to my needs is something to do. It's
progress. If you think you'll never have need for win10, you won't be
doing much in the future.

I have an experiment Windows 10 host at home but not very often because
there's no bang-for-the-buck for me to spend time on it. I use and have
deployed Windows 10 at work in our alpha test lab. We also have *NIX
hosts at work because Windows is not appropriate for their tasks.
Windows 10 is not an appropriate OS for all applications. I need a task
to get done, I find what software is available, and then pick the OS to
achieve the task, not ass backwards by getting the OS and then see what
happens to run on it.

My motives are mine. They don't have to agree with yours.

Zim zim ala bim, the spirits are about to speak. Uh, what, oh, they say
they don't know your motives because you never mentioned them, like you
are trying to cull for help on something that is unimportant. Yep, I've
got other better things to do than waste on triviality. I don't bother
helping a user that wants to change the desktop's background, either.

Hope you find a solution with your hobby hardware playing. Sometimes we
do things that are challenging, not because they are logical. "The
harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph" (Thomas Paine).
Humans thrive on conflict hence the use of general-purpose computers.