Well, the first of my old PC's ready to go. Took many days but a lot of that was figuring out how to do it.
Learned a whole bunch. Had to go into the BIOS and delete a corrupted temporary drive that was set up by my first failed Win install attempt. Until I did that the Win install just went into an endless wait. Also stumbled across 2 hidden drives full of bloatware from MS and Dell and deleted them. Now it won't get any of those annoying pop-ups from Mcafee and the rest.
Had a fight with MS about MS accounts. It wouldn't let me complete the install without signing in with a MS account. Did that with my own account then wandered
through a maze to persuade MS to let me set up a local account and remove all traces of my MS account, with endless warnings about what I would lose by doing that. Bunch of other stuff like deleting the Wi-Fi Id and other bits and pieces. Couldn't have done it without Google.
The second PC should go a lot faster.
Got so absorbed in it that I missed the BCF sale yet again.