Just a report re: Vista

Have this little Acer laptop... actually been off line 5 months .... barely remembered to drag it out and plug in to keep the battery alive.

Since connection, after long boot (as Vista was a bit slow in the first place) I'm now 1 hour and 22 minutes into Win Update "checking for updates" and nothing happening. Meanwhile, updated Firefox, Thunderbird, Adobe bits and pieces, plugins, add-ons, MS Security Esstetials and all other kinds of goodies.

Is the MS Update system so busy with Win10 nags that it can't complete other specifications? I did note, the other night, that a scheduled Win7 came though a bit slower than usual.

Haven't looked, but does anyone, off the top of their head, know when Vista support ends? In my case won't make a difference as this machine is already running "best" it can do and be semi-secure. Going to give it to a family member who is not "techie" to replace a Lenovo laptop I gave them a few years back and which finally bit the dust. He just wants email, a word processor and a bit of web browsing. This critter will do the trick.