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4 minutes ago, saksham said:

i have an extremely old laptop running win7. its really laggy and i was thinking to upgrade to win10. does win10 use less resources? i have 2gb ram and a Pentium t2330 CPU

If you are experiencing laggy issues, keep on using Windows 7 becuase Windows 10 is using more resources. If you decided to use Windows 10, you might consider buying a new laptop.

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2 minutes ago, TechQuest said:

If you are experiencing laggy issues, keep on using Windows 7 becuase Windows 10 is using more resources. If you decided to use Windows 10, you might consider buying a new laptop.

actually... this is my moms laptop and i might change it to linux because its obviously better for low end and all she really needs is chrome and photos and music

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Just do a fresh install of Windows 7. That is a super easy way to make an old computer faster. 

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Just now, saksham said:

i was gonna change to linux cuz its much lighter

You'd have to teach the user how to work with Linux, as it's a lot different than Windows. Even just reinstalling Windows makes a world of difference. 

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1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

You'd have to teach the user how to work with Linux, as it's a lot different than Windows. Even just reinstalling Windows makes a world of difference. 

alright... il give that i shot... i mean... is f***g 8 years old now... i guess reinstall could help

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1 minute ago, saksham said:

alright... il give that i shot... i mean... is f***g 8 years old now... i guess reinstall could help

Trust me, I use a laptop older than that as my daily driver. I understand how they are. If the RAM wasn't that limited, I'd say do a fresh install of Windows 10, but Windows 7 would be better on 2GB of RAM. 

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On 5/14/2017 at 8:21 PM, saksham said:

actually... this is my moms laptop and i might change it to linux because its obviously better for low end and all she really needs is chrome and photos and music

List it out and let me know other software you need to use.

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