u/jedicouncilman

Hi all, so I recently found my old laptop in my parents basement. it booted up just fine. forgot the password (which is fine I'm working on that), but I wanted to start a project and see if I can get it going again. I have minimal experience working on computers, I did build one several years ago for gaming/home PC and figured this would be a fun little project. searching online I have found the following

Upgrade ram to 8GBs

Swap out HDD with a SSD

I'm thinking once I get through the password (going to try sticky key method) and I download anything of value I'll change it to a Linux OS (mint lite I'm thinking) something to play around with.

Any suggestions or advice on working on these is appreciated. (On mobile sorry if the format is weird)