I have a Dell Latitude 1500, which I absolutely love. I bought it, maybe 3-4 years ago, and it came with Windows 10 Pro.

The Win11 updates kept popping up, but I would ignore them every time. When I saw that Windows 10 was coming to end of life, I decided to update. The initial upgrade went smoothly, it was long, but smooth nonetheless. Since then, I have had several issues.

The primary issue being that the computer simply crashes with no specific error message, just that "something" went catastrophically wrong, and it had to reboot. The secondary issue is that maybe 3 out of 5 times it boots up, it cannot find a bootable device. If I go into the boot startup screen, I can see my hard drive, so I exit and it boots up. The third issue is that performance has completely plummeted, but not consistently. Sometimes, it will run just fine. Other times, the fan will speed up to "take off" mode, and it will take seconds to minutes to open applications.

This is an incredibly frustrating experience, and to top it off, I'm not really a "tech guy" in the IT sense. So, I don't really know what the heck I'm doing with all this hardware/OS crap.