Yesterday morning when I turned on my computer and began using it after it had finished loading, my cursor froze and nothing could be done ─ the entire computer was frozen. So I forced it to stop, and began using it again.
Yet the same thing soon occurred. After I forced a restart, it behaved thereafter.
The morning prior to that, I experienced another single freeze forcing me to make a restart.
My computer's original Operating System was Windows 7, but I eventually broke down and risked upgrading to Windows 10.
While it was Windows 7, for the last couple or so years prior to the upgrade to Windows 10, this freezing soon after starting up my computer was so commonplace that I quit turning the machine off. I may even have been keeping my computer running for more than two years without ever voluntarily turning it off ─ the freezing was that wretched.
Then after the Windows 10 upgrade, a number of times I had the power cord misbehave and cause the machine to crash. But I soon noticed that each time I got the power cord stabilized again and my computer was started back up, there was never an issue with the cursor freezing.
So I gambled and began turning it off at night when I went to bed, and there was never any issue with the freeze-up at any of the restarts.
Until two mornings ago.
So after yesterday's dual freeze-ups, I decided to start again leaving the computer running non-stop.
Nevertheless, I wondered if upgrading to Windows 11 might correct the issue, just as had the original upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7.
Some while back when I investigated whether my computer was able to upgrade to Windows 11, I ran Microsoft's "PC Health Check" and discovered that it failed on three points (you can find a guide on how to find and use that app in this HowToGeek.com article: How to Check if Your Windows 10 PC Can Run Windows 11).
That was disappointing, but a little research at the time did suggest to me that maybe the failures might possibly be able to be corrected. However, I didn't have or take the time, and after shutting my machine off for the night, the results of that "PC Health Check" of course were gone.
Well, yesterday I got around to running the check once again, and the three failings are displayed in this screenshot:
My computer is a fairly old (maybe more than a decade) Acer, by the way.
I performed some research yesterday and today, and I am of the impression that I might be able to make enough of a correction to get my computer to qualify for the upgrade.
Microsoft does offer some helpful information. If you notice the third failing listed, it states: "The processor isn't currently supported for Windows 11."
Here is Microsoft's general guide listing Windows 11 System Requirements. I only gave a quick superficial check of my computer, but it initially seems to me that it might meet the minimum requirements, and likely the previous two failings are what in combination have resulted in the third fail:
I learned how to find that information in this MajorGeeks.com article: How to Identify Your Intel Processor and Generation.
Possibly it was while checking into the previous two listed fails that I read that my processor would need to have at least two "cores", and some research revealed that my computer does indeed have that minimum (to find the number of "cores", refer to this Microsoft article: Find out how many cores your processor has).
Getting back to that first fail with the "PC Health Check" that declared, "This PC must support Secure Boot"; Microsoft has this explanation: Windows 11 and Secure Boot. It does look somewhat complicated.
The second fail declared, "TPM 2.0 must be supported and enabled on this PC"; and I already know mine is not enabled, if indeed it exists. I learned about this by running the check that Microsoft describes in this article: Enable TPM 2.0 on your PC.
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There do seem to be a number of articles talking about enabling Secure Boot as well as TPM 2.0 if they are indeed present but not enabled (for whatever reason) ─ see, for instance, this article at HowToGeek.com that tells how to enable both: How to Enable TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot for Windows 11 in UEFI.
I intend to give it a shot, but I have my concerns. Just watch this 6½-minute YouTube video to see how potentially complicated these two enablings can be: How to enable TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot for Windows 11.
I only watched it once, but I believe that it was stated that computers have only had TPM 2.0 installed as a routine feature ─ whether or not the TPM 2.0 was actually enabled by the manufacturer ─ since 2016. As I already stated earlier, my machine may be a decade or more old, so TPM 2.0 might not even exist in mine.
As indicated in that video, there is a lot that will be needed to have in mind once I attempt this remedy. There is far too much for me to be able to just make notes to have on hand, since I won't be able to look at these various articles nor the video after I am restarting my computer in BIOS mode.
I will need to have a laptop on hand with those instructions on display.
This is not a task that I have the time to tackle today, and I don't think I will be getting at it tomorrow, either.
Heck, it is already nigh 8 p.m., and I want to have a bath. I must quit blogging for today.
However, I will report that my wife was home until sometime shy of 4:30 p.m. when she left for wherever it is in Vancouver that she hangs out for her weekends, so she won't be back until Monday.
The day has become rather wet.
Also, I want to mention that I placed the (10? 12? I didn't count) sprouted pansy seeds that I spoke of in yesterdays post, into a post containing very wet potting soil that had been outside. I've now got that small pot in a plastic bag to maintain the moisture, and I will wait to see if the seeds actually throw up any stems and begin to thrive.
Meantime, I am keeping it here in the house.
I really ought to try to force some more pansy seeds to sprout, but I am lacking the time right now.
Sadly, I may have dropped at least one of the sprouted seeds onto the living room carpet where I was working, but I was unable to espy anything ─ the seeds are so danged tiny. If I did drop one or two, they will fast dehydrate and die.
Okay, I cannot take the time to say aught more.
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