[JackDidley]

Originally Posted by drew1

Thanks to everybody for help. I appreciate you all sharing your knowledge.

Rusty Heap said I ought to sacrifice the old laptop to the DOS gods, but not following his advice. It was a pretty good one in its day. 1 TB HD and 16 GB memory. It has optical drive for CD and I think a 2 core processor with over 2 GHz speed. It does/did what my wife wanted except for occasional Windows 10 stuff.

Yesterday morning going through HP Support and MS websites, RockFan4 and Jack Didley's advice was verified. I tried downloading to Win10 on this Win7 laptop to send to a reformated USB stick but was unable due to 2016 limit (I guess). With the pretty day, I quit to take care of some outside stuff. Before I did, ordered sealed Windows 10 off ebay. It should be here between Mon and Wed next week. Will let you all know how it goes.

Thanks for suggesting Linux. Read the Linux.com "what is Linux", but am sticking wit Windows on this one.

I wish you would have posted here before buying the Windows 10. I just downloaded it free 2 days ago. I'd have posted a link.