To get continued security updates for Window 10 that you have already paid for, you have set up a Microsoft account, set your sign ins to daily and sign into your account at once every 22 days . If you don’t, the security updates stop.
I only had to sign into my Microsoft account once and I’m still enrolled! And still getting updates every second Tuesday like clockwork.
I do have one HP desktop that is still running Win10. I tried the hack to convert to 11 but it is too old! I bought it new in 2008! Have upgraded the CPU, brought the RAM up to max and other upgrades but it was not enough. I have 2 or 3 other former Win10 machines I was able to hack up to Win11 even though MicroSoft originally said they couldn’t be upgraded. I will check out this new security thing with my old HP desktop.
Wow, 18 years and going! Awesome!
>>>Wow, 18 years and going! Awesome!<<<
Yah, I tend to keep things running a long time! I bought this PC at Wal-Mart in 2008. It was their most expensive one they had at the time, $850 including a 22 inch monitor! In addition to the upgrades I already talked about (above) I installed an SSD sata drive. Originally Windows Vista! I skipped 8.0 and 8.1, but when Win10 came out I installed it. I now use a HP 27 inch monitor for my old eyes!
$850 will soon be a coveted deal with this terrible RAM shortage. Tim Cook and Elon Musk have both commented on it being a major and unexpected limitation to tune of a 100-year flood.
I just browsed on BestBuy.com for 
and giggles, and a single DDR5 module is over $200.
SSD is one of the best inventions in computers in the past three decades. Fantastic upgrade performance from the spindle hardware.
There is a guy named Dave Graveline. He has a podcast dealing with technology. In the past he has said “Once you go to a SSD, you never go back”.
Agreed.
I think it is pretty much standard on newer models, but even if not, I wouldn’t consider a spindle HDD, even if half the price.
I’d sooner find software to use my phone with a bluetooth monitor and keyboard.