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Malwarebytes didn't see it as threat but I don't see it now, it must have been removed when I uninstalled something that included many demo games

It's kind of you to help, thanks! yes I know it is old but purchasing is out of the picture right now so I want to do whatever is possible for me,I watched the performance monitor and CPU (AMD E-300 <---crap) was at 99% most of the time but I said RAM too because is 4GB is not fully seen by 64bit OS and I know it's not enough so it must be contributing too but not much is visible on performance monitor so mainly CPU. 1. I scanned PC with malwarebytes 2. I removed software from start up like Power DVD and Camera and wild tangent software and disabled anything non critical 3. I removed some apps from metro that show news and gif of wallpapers 4. I adjusted power management to always use performance even on battery 5. In advanced system settings I chose performance option and disabled all visual enhancements except fonts I read that windows 10 is better compared to windows 8 but that could be only correct with good specs not old laptop but I am not sure, that is why I posted my question I have doubts about Norton End point being heavy but I am just not sure compared to latest AVG. I know it's a lost cause but if you have more ideas how to enhance performance let me know

it doesn't have a GPU and there is no gaming or graphics processing involved, what is there to bottle neck a PC beside those two?

Hello, I have an HP 2000 with Windows 8.1 and Norton End point 12.1, the CPU is weak and ram is barely enough and you can notice delay in doing stuff I am thinking of installing windows 10 and AVG instead but afraid to have negative results or at best no change in performance, what do you think?

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Thank you for the info, I was looking at the settings and explanation from startpage and I am impressed, a lot of nice features and it saves settings with no email or signing in but having the same results as google is not interesting to me, google filters a lot of pages, I want more results not less. I thought encrypted google had something with more secure connection but it seems to be the same as https google except for more control on leaking info to http sites or going to http ads, still good to know, thanks again

Not expert here but that does not sound like my whiny PSU, if I am not wrong about what I am hearing, it sound like a fan problem, wait for the experts

Never did it, should have, what's your results/findings in general? For me google is longer what it used to be, it's a very capable company, no doubt, but since a very long time I started noticing that their results are getting less useful, too much "played with", also you notice how they they show you like 1 million results but if you keep clicking you only find 10 pages at best, what's that about? when they say 7 pages you click and they shrink to 3... the problem is the competition is very bad but I stopped researching new things on the internet, never even heard of startpage.

I google DuckDuckgo even through I have it in bookmarks toolbar and also expect google have ways to know what sites I visit without using google, just to let then know I hate them She is at least contributing to her site rank?

A plain text with passwords on "my" PC is safer than Lastpass Install a remote connection software on her PC with full control feature and prank her like those ransomware stuff, she will understand

I was looking for articles about this and last thing I read is that Samsung built or already building a new facility/ies to cover the shortage and people were expecting decrease in price start from November/December which is not happening, some people are expecting it in March and some people say it will be gradual so to reach same prices as before, maybe a year and since DRAM 5 is on the way am not even sure we'll see a decrease in DRAM 3, the suggestion is buy and don't wait, who knows really.

Record it if you can so people can understand.

I rarely download new stuff, Google alone has 1/3 of the apps lol, I already mentioned that I am trying folders but I don't like folders, I will keep looking, maybe I will find what I need, thank you!