Topic: bitcoin core 26.0.0 with armory 0.96.0 (Read 7 times)

I installed bitcoin core 26.0.0 a few months ago on a Windows 11 machine. I got enough time to return to it again, and I am near the end of the process of downloading the blockchain. My plan originally was to use the latest armory version to attempt to restore a paper wallet. It looks like I will be using v 0.96.0 -- ?
It looks like bitcoin core could be upgraded to v 28.0.0 right away. Is that necessary?
Is this the right procedure for the upgrade?
-shut down bitcoin core completely
-run the v 28.0.0 installation from a *.exe
-sync up to the network again

I'd like to find a tutorial on the whole process, in as much detail as is possible.

After upgrading to bitcoin 28.0.0, would my next steps be as follows?
-shut down bitcoin core completely
-install armory's latest version
-configure armory to recognize bitcoin core and use the blockchain

OR

does armory recognize the bitcoin installation and automatically run bitcoin core in the background?

Are there known issues with the 28.0.0 version of bitcoin core and the latest version of armory?
Will there be any problems with running everything on an external drive? Maybe it was more conventional to run armory from the c: drive in the past?

You can see that I need a lot of advice. My firt objective is to restore my bitcoin wallets from 2013 through 2019. I want the public addresses and the logs.
There is probably still some BTC in one of the wallets. That is a secondary objective.
I started with armory in 2013. I have cold storage set up on a Windows XP machine. It still runs. My watching only wallet was set up on an XP machine that upgraded to Windows 10. I lost the use of that, due to hardware issues.

Please help.