I'm running LMS on the same Windows 10 laptop that I use for everyday computing functions, like posting on here, my banking etc. When Windows 10 goes out of support next year I will buy a Windows 11 computer as I really don't want to risk using an unsupported computer for financial and other functions. However, I'm thinking I could remove everything other than LMS from my current laptop but leave that on the network purely as a file server including accessing Spotify.
My question is:- what's the risk of leaving an unsupported PC on my home network even if it's only a file server and for Spotify. I have a similar issue with an older Windows 7 laptop used only for REW and an even older XP PC used for audio recordings as the sound card used only has XP drivers. I normally keep those off the network, but there are times when I might want to transfer files or look something up, so they go online occasionally.
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My question is:- what's the risk of leaving an unsupported PC on my home network even if it's only a file server and for Spotify. I have a similar issue with an older Windows 7 laptop used only for REW and an even older XP PC used for audio recordings as the sound card used only has XP drivers. I normally keep those off the network, but there are times when I might want to transfer files or look something up, so they go online occasionally.
S.