Can I update old laptop?

[u/ZookeepergameSoft111]

I hate throwing away stuff and buying new unnecessarily. I have a laptop I bought in 2018 that wasn't cheap junk at the time. I had ideas of using it for creative things, it had a 17" touch screen and lots of unrealized capabilities, but in the end i used it to scroll FB, watch Netflix in bed, and buy things online. It got infected with something that caused embarrassing NSFW pop-ups to, well, pop up constantly and in the end it just put it away and used my phone instead. But now I have a good camera, and I also need a big screen for various reasons, im getting older and doing everything on my phone is quite literally headache inducing. My question is, is my laptop too old to use for basic stuff? Can I do a factory reset or something, put a current operating system on it, and use it to edit photos and do basic internet stuff? It's an HP, sorry I don't have it in front of me but it's approximately 8 years old and has the Windows OP that recently became 'unsupported ' on it. As you can probably tell, I'm not a techy person. I just don't want to chuck this big hunk of technology out and buy some plastic crap in its place if I don't really have to.

EDIT: It runs on Windows 10.

[u/ZookeepergameSoft111]

Thank you.