Adding to the frustration of Windows 8 was the Charms bar, a hidden menu that always seemed to appear when you needed it the least. It would activate unintentionally when you moved your cursor to the ...

Microsoft's People app survived throughout Windows 8 and Windows 10, but Microsoft killed it. Now, People and File Search are ...

Normally, you’d run Microsoft’s PC Health Check Tool to see if your computer can handle Windows 11, but that tool is designed for Windows 10 and won’t work in Windows 8.1.

Click Install and allow the upgrade to proceed. Your PC will then need to reboot before you can sign into Windows 10. Even if your Windows 8.1 PC does qualify for Windows 11, you may run into issues.