In order to easily install Windows 11, it requires the motherboard support secure boot. I’d looked it up a couple of times and watched a YouTube or two, but my attempts had always failed. Yesterday, a YouTuber mentioned changing the boot partition over to GPT, which I had not heard of before. I ran the command, and suddenly my secure boot motherboard settings were good for Windows 11. I ran the update assistant, and after quite some time, it choked on one program I had that it said had to be upgraded or else I had to stay on Windows 10. Several fruitless attempts later, after update attempts, uninstalling, and reinstalling, I removed it and rebooted, and then went to bed after starting the update assistant for what I hoped was the last time.

This morning after turning the computer on, it booted into Windows 11. I had to fool around and reset Google Chrome as my default browser — somehow Microsoft Edge had decided to take over, and my ancient Google Picasa is still broken. I hope to be free of the modal Windows Expiry message that has been haunting my computer for quite some time — a time considerably shorter than the July 2020 expiry date on the message. Anyway, everything appears to be working, although I can no longer move the toolbar to the top since it maintains one at the top and bottom. I can make them vanish, however.