Not because I wanted to, but because the hard drive on the old one went kerflooey. Eight years of good and faithful service.....
Fortunately, I back up my stuff every six months or so.
Unfortunately, my last backup was five and a half months ago....
Fortunately, I was able to copy off onto a flash drive all my "mission critical" files and things that had been added or modified since the last backup (and I keep my erotica on an external drive anyway).
So, I'm now running Windows 10 on a Dell Inspiron (the specs don't really matter to me). I've uploaded/recovered my old files, tweaked the UI to something I can tolerate, got the latest versions of all the little utility files that I use, and I'm trying out some of the new software that it comes with. I'll be gradually reorganizing all my data files over the next few weeks - it's amazing how many places things wind up in when you're doing it one or two media files at a time.
Am I forgetting anything? Is there something I should do (set up a Restore Point, perhaps) regarding, for example, drive partitions? Is it a good and useful thing to store stuff in "the cloud"?
Any advice from you experts?