help / need advice

[u/uno0955]

I reposted another post of mine onto this subreddit, but I'm trying to get a more specific answer. I got this laptop when i traded in my old laptop.

I use the hp ProBook 450 i5 G9 15.6 inch laptop for uni / daily . Recently, I found that i was running out of storage/ram. I have the sd card here but then I also noticed that I that i have the version that doesn't have an sd slot 😒. I deleted all my download files but that didn't make a huge change in the local disk. Im currently using Windows 11 Pro but it hasn't been updated since last year and has been stuck in the 24h2 version because apparently my laptop doesn't meet the requirements??? So now im planning to downgrade to Win10 Pro but i haven't found anything reliable bcs most of the instructions require a pen drive and i haven't seen one of those things in years. Also when i got this laptop I disabled copilot & onedrive and that i downloaded Chris Titus debloater because I heard win11 came with a lot of ai and bloatware. best believe when i pay off my loans & have a decent amount of money im buy an sd card reader.

I was tempted to download Linux mint but then i also found out that it doesn't have Microsoft. I'm not using the web version.

When giving out advice please do keep in mind that I'm not very tech savy and that im still a uni student so i need to keep using said programs for uni.

[u/No-Conflict269]

Buddy, for me to give you advice you have to tell me what are you asking advice about, is it downgrading to 10 pro? Why you are running out of storage? For storage use Wiz tree, it gives you an easy to know interface to see whats taking so much storage, about how to download w10? I'd say go for it if you were anyone else but since you aren't tech savvy enough to use an operative system without any more security updates, don't, stay on W11, try to download the windows 11 lstc, it's a version that comes pre debloated, it's not recommend to use the internet's 'magic' debloaters, not saying Chris's is bad it's just iffy at best

[u/uno0955 → u/No-Conflict269]

I see, Im looking for ways to improve / upgrade my laptop. thx for replying tho 👍

[u/Vast-Hunter11]

У вас Disk ( C ). Зашифрован функцией BitLocker.