Consider yourself very lucky. If you really want 10, buy a new hard drive, install 10 there then copy your files from the old hard drive to the new one. This way, if you happen to change your mind over 10, you can easily fall back to your old 8.1 hard disk and not lose anything more than time.
Do not put any stickers on the viola == it will change the tone and ruin the wood and varnish .... put the stickers on the case to help identify the instrument as yours ....
A post-it would be ok, but don't stick anything to it that won't come off really easily.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.