I have a laptop stuck at W8 and will have another go at it today but I did upgrade the browser with Chrome and Firefox. Works great.
I have a HP 2000 Notebook laptop with Windows 8. It's just over 2 years old. It won't let me update to Windows 8.1 which means I can't upgrade to Windows 10. Because of this, I can't update my browser so most sites will not work properly or open. I can download Windows 8.1 but it won't run.

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