22-10-2019, 08:27 AM
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Re: Help needed with Browser
Originally Posted by Frankie1944
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I had tried to upgrade earlier to W10 which I have on the laptop and for some reason and was unable to do so, can't remember why now.
22-10-2019, 08:29 AM
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Re: Help needed with Browser
Originally Posted by JBR
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I'm not sure that anybody is obliged to 'upgrade' to W10.
22-10-2019, 11:14 AM
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Re: Help needed with Browser
Originally Posted by Frankie1944
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I had tried to upgrade earlier to W10 which I have on the laptop and for some reason and was unable to do so, can't remember why now.
Windows 7 is a very good OS and, when Microsoft support is discontinued for it, you'll not be bothered by incessant and sometimes very protracted updates.
Just ensure you have a good anti-virus programme and also download 'Malwarebytes' (free) and 'CCleaner' (also free).
22-10-2019, 03:57 PM
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Re: Help needed with Browser
Originally Posted by JBR
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You're lucky.Windows 7 is a very good OS and, when Microsoft support is discontinued for it, you'll not be bothered by incessant and sometimes very protracted updates.
Just ensure you have a good anti-virus programme and also download 'Malwarebytes' (free) and 'CCleaner' (also free).
22-10-2019, 04:43 PM
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Re: Help needed with Browser
Something I noticed after installing W.7 recently was that it was nippy enough until SP1 and subsequent updates were installed. Then it seemed to get sluggish in operation. A couple of well-featured photo editing programs that I own run very well on W.10 but are extremely slow to load on W.7. This applies to the current versions of Firefox and Chrome as well.The computer W.7 is installed on isn't that bad. It's got an i5 processor and 8GB of RAM, so maybe the slowness wouldn't particularly be hardware related. Perhaps it's just that newer software doesn't run all that well on what is now an old operating system. That could be a reason for W.7's demise rather than a lack of support from Microsoft.
22-10-2019, 05:07 PM
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Re: Help needed with Browser
Originally Posted by LongDriver
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As a matter of interest, how large is the Malwarebytes Free version download. I ask so that I can compare the loaded file with SpyBot S&D Free version.
25-10-2019, 12:26 AM
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Re: Help needed with Browser
Originally Posted by mart
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Something I noticed after installing W.7 recently was that it was nippy enough until SP1 and subsequent updates were installed. Then it seemed to get sluggish in operation. A couple of well-featured photo editing programs that I own run very well on W.10 but are extremely slow to load on W.7. This applies to the current versions of Firefox and Chrome as well.The computer W.7 is installed on isn't that bad. It's got an i5 processor and 8GB of RAM, so maybe the slowness wouldn't particularly be hardware related. Perhaps it's just that newer software doesn't run all that well on what is now an old operating system. That could be a reason for W.7's demise rather than a lack of support from Microsoft.
Certainly I recall that there were many speed tests that confirmed, on a similar spec machine, Win10 was faster than previous versions including Win7 in all departments that these typical speed tests measure.
Whether that is still true I don't know. Despite it fudging start up times WIN10 seems pretty fast on all my machine whether 32 or 64 bit especially when performing complex tasks like video conversions.
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