For photo manipulation, check out Gimp. It’s akin to Photoshop, but it’s 100% free. If it’s too feature-rich, check out Irfanview. That’s a photo editing tool that’s relatively powerful but not as Photoshop-y as Gimp.
Depending on the Roxio software you have, you might be able to upgrade. Depending on what you’re trying to do, you might be able to use Windows to do the conversions. Windows Media Center has some conversion options.
You made the right choice going to something other than XP. Many people accuse me of scare-tactics, but XP is legitimately terrifying. Good on you.
Thanks for the tips. Hope to get some of this done today. I have been wanting to upgrade that desktop for over a year and have been waiting til the dust settled over Windows 10 and I could read up on it. I have been running Norton on that old desktop. I actually have about 6 FR threads bookmarked from when 10 rolled out, full of warnings and was just thinking I should really start reading them. Finding this new thread and you was the help I needed. Thanks for the tip on the media center vs. Roxio. I did not think of that.
Regarding your first answer, my settings were already good in the Customer Experience and User account sections. I may have done that at startup when I opted out of what I could. A question - I take it Windows Defender was turned off by McAfee and they do not run together??
May have to check out photo software tomorrow. Got the software for my older printer downloaded and working.