Can My Machine Handle Windows 10?

Did some more research. Your processor is the Sandy Bridge family. That's not supported by Windows 10.

So are you telling me that my graphics card will not support Windows 10?

Hi Brian, 

Thanks for the quick reply.

I am considering the upgrade because I've had issues with windows update lately...leading to performance issues.  I can certainly wait until later in the year, but will this system be able to run windows 10?

Hi Ciccio. I"m Greg, an installation specialist, 9 year Windows MVP and Independent Advisor, here to help you.

The weak link as you probably know is the GPU, since the last driver that worked on WIndows 10 is 2015. See some useful discussion here: https://forums.sketchup.com/t/best-driver-for-i...

You can shrink C in Disk Mgmt to install Windows 10 in a Dual Boot to see for yourself, keep it as a construction site for as long as you want and then either delete it and extend back over it, or I'll show you how to delete Windows 7 and recover it's space into C.

Follow the illustrated steps here for doing the best possible Clean Install which should get you past all difficulties as it has hundreds of thousands of others who have followed the steps in this link and never come back to report another problem: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki...

Once you see how it runs you can decide if you want to keep it and buy a license, or there are still occasional reports that it will activate with the older OS Product Key which may never have been officially turned off. You can't count on this though, so you might have to decide if you want to pay $100 for a license or $300 more to get a new PC.

I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and keep me posted. If you'll wait to rate whether my post helped you, I will keep working with you until it's resolved.

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Any particular reason why you think you need to upgrade? I don't see any glaring impediment, but if you like Windows 7, why not continue to use it? It won't get any less safe that it is right now and you'll continue to get security updates through January 2020.