WIndows 10 Upgrade to win 11 or buy new

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deanter

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Hi, room,
I hope this is ok in this room,
I would like to know whether it would be cost-effective to upgrade my old pc,
or buy a new one with Windows 11 installed.
my system is :-

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name DESKTOP-VEMIAHE
System Manufacturer ZOOSTORM
System Model 7200-0230A
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU 7200-0230A
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7400 CPU @ 3.00GHz, 3001 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 9036, 09/08/2017
SMBIOS Version 3.0
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
BaseBoard Product H110M-R
BaseBoard Version Rev X.0x
Platform Role Desktop
Secure Boot State On
PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.19041.3636"
Username DESKTOP-VEMIAHE\dts19
Time Zone GMT Summer Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 15.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 9.99 GB
Total Virtual Memory 18.3 GB
Available Virtual Memory 10.5 GB
Page File Space 2.38 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection Off
Virtualisation-based security Not enabled
Device Encryption Support Elevation Required to View
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualisation Enabled in Firmware No
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes

Thank you for looking.
 
Thank you beers,
?i, 'm not up on tech, which generation is mine please, and would I be better off buying a new computer,
thank you.
 
deanter said:
'm not up on tech, which generation is mine please
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Your CPU is intel 7th gen core processors.

There are work arounds to make Win 11 install on unsupported cpu's but these work arounds could close at any time from Microsoft updates. Honestly not worth the hassle.

If your machine is still fine for what you do, I would suggest you just keep using it until Windows 10 loses security updates (kinda soon, October 2025) and just keep a look out on sales coming up.

Closest sale is probably the back to school events which should be now... or coming soon before September and the next big one is Black Friday/Cyber Monday in November.
 
Thanks for your help Intel-man,
my computer is fine just a bit slow. I will keep an eye out.
thanks again.
 
deanter said:
my computer is fine just a bit slow.
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Are you using a standard hard drive or an SSD? You've got a decent cpu and 16gb of ram so it shouldn't be slow. You also may need to do some system maintenance like run Ccleaner, check for malware using Malwarebytes, disable unnecessary programs running at bootup. If you would like I can help you sort this some until you can buy a new system.
 
Thanks johnb35 for your advice.
I run on a hard drive,
I have avg free version which I use, I will look into the other software you mentioned.
thanks again.
 
I recommend getting rid of AVG as it causes a lot more problems then it solves. Generally people can just run Malwarebytes scanner as an on demand and be good. Windows 10 also comes with windows defender built in so once AVG gets uninstalled then Windows should automatically turn on Defender.
 
johnb35 said:
I recommend getting rid of AVG as it causes a lot more problems then it solves. Generally people can just run Malwarebytes scanner as an on demand and be good. Windows 10 also comes with windows defender built in so once AVG gets uninstalled then Windows should automatically turn on Defender.
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Hi johnb35,
thanks for your advice.
 
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