Upgrade HP Stream to newer Windows 10

[Jhoel]

My HP Stream is not allowing me to upgrade to the new Windows 10 because of low disk space. It gives me 2 options to free up space: 1- click on a link to free up space (I have freed up everything possible) OR 2- insert external storage with at least 11 GB of space (for this option is does not give me a link to click and it has a 500 GB external hard drive connected).

What should I do?

[Huffer]

I wrote this Knowledge Base article on this very point:

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebooks-Knowledge-Base/Updating-Windows-10-OS-on-an-HP-Stream-with-3...

Read this and post back with any more questions. 

[WAWood]

@Jhoel 

My advice to you is simple -- leave it alone!

When you read the article that @Huffer wrote, you will see that doing such an update, while certainly possible, is a lot of work on your part.

But that is not why I recommend against doing it -- these issues are the reason:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/status-windows-10-2004

But ... it's your PC, it's your decision.

[Huffer]

Gotta agree I see no compelling reason to always have the newest Windows 10 Build, but eventually Microsoft makes you do the upgrade unless you just turn off Update services.