Windows 10, 8.1, 8, or 7?

[AFewFalling]

I am going to choose to reinstall windows soon.

I have a very low end machine running Windows 10.

Should I keep my current OS, or move to 8.1, 8, or 7?

 

Because my current one IS EXTREMELY SLOW!!!

Thank youu!!

 

[3 Lions]

Keep using Windows 10. 

[Trevor87]

Well there is anther OS you can try but what do you do with your pc ?  

[AFewFalling]

Mmhm. Thanks

I do editing, Emulating old games, Playing old games, Uploading to youtube, and so on.

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, AFewFalling said:

I do editing, Emulating old games, Playing old games, Uploading to youtube, and so on.

 

what haradware are you using?

 

The speed difference betweeen those oses is very small.

[AFewFalling]

lemme see sorry explorer takes forever to load

[GoodBytes]

Please share your system specs?

I got Windows 10 running on a Atom 330 fine.... For reference, it struggles running Windows XP.

So I think you have a hardware issue, like a your HDD is about to fail, or you are missing your SATA controller drivers / motherboard chipset drivers.

[AFewFalling]

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU    E6850 @ 3.00GHz 3.00GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 2.00 GB

64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

 

I got a potato.

Everytime I get new RAM, It struggles to use it.

[Trevor87]

Just check because some Duo cores CPU only support 2 GB of ram 

[AFewFalling]

ohhhhhhhh

I didn't know that

[GoodBytes]

23 minutes ago, AFewFalling said:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU    E6850 @ 3.00GHz 3.00GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 2.00 GB

 

64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

That is much faster than my Atom. Windows 10 should run fine on it.

 

Let's start with the basics:

1. You should have 1 Task Scheduler set: OneDrive, if you use it. Else it should be empty. If it's not, post what you see. (screenshot is fine). If you see "Updaters", you can already just remove those. You don't have the luxury for those. Update manually.
    
2. Open Task Manager, and look at the Startup tab. You should have 1 to 3 items in there: Windows Defender, OneDrive (if you use it), and maybe your mouse or keyboard control panel or something. That is all. The rest: Disable!
    
3. Defrag your HDD. It's probably super fragmented. Mind you defragmentation will remove files being separated and scattered all the drive, but won't fix having all the files of a program or OS next to each other. You'l need to do a full drive format and re-install the OS and all your stuff to fix that, or get an SSD.
    
4. You use a shitty Anti-Virus and/or Security Software. Remove them, use Windows Defender.

 

If that doesn't help:

• Check for missing drivers
• Make sure your SATA Controller is set to AHCI in the BIOS (if it is not, don't expect Windows to boot, it will BSOD when you do the switch, leave it to whatever settings it was set (probably: IDE/Legacy), go in Windows 10 and let us know, as you have to do registry stuff to make it work when you switch.
• Your HDD might be dying or extremely sucky, and should be changed. If you have another system with an HDD or SSD that runs fine, running Windows 10, and that system uses BIOS also, and not UEFI, then that drive out, and plug it on your system. Windows 10 will detect the hardware changes, and start disabling all its current drivers and install the correct drivers. That first startup will be slow as a result, let it do its thing. Once in, check for Windows Update to get any remaining missing drivers, if any. Once done, restart, and see if you have performance improvement. If you do, buy a new HDD/SSD. I would get an SSD if space is not an issue.

 

 

[AFewFalling]

Well, It dosen't. That's what I'm trying to figure out.

I can't get windows showing the desktop without 20 minutes of a black screen after login..

[Trevor87]

 

 

16 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

That is much faster than my Atom. Windows 10 should run fine on it.

You can only 32 bit OS on that cpu

[GoodBytes]

6 minutes ago, Trevor87 said:

You can only 32 bit OS on that cpu

Atom 330 is a 64-bit dual core CPU

Runs Windows 10 Pro 64-bit just fine, very slow... but fine, especially if you stick to anything that uses the GPU and you have a decent GPU in the system. In my case, it is an old Nvidia ION platform, so beside that Atom chip, it has a GeForce 9400M with a co-processor to help with the CPU offloading to the GPU.

So, its a fine system, albeit, slow to load things due to the CPU being the bottleneck, but not terrible, but video decoding, using UWP apps like Edge, Netflix, Plex, etc. runs really smoothly (as  the GPU handles the interface). Making it a great media PC. I call i my Netflix Box, as I run mostly Netflix on it for my non-smartTV. I got an IR receiver and and air mouse remote with keyboard, and voila, all set. Paid less than a cheap Roku, and runs better than one.

 

My mothers PC is a Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz with 4GB of RAM running Windows 10 (I could have put 8GB of RAM, but the system boots much slower the moment it passes the 4GB mark, for some reason. the BIOS can't fast boot anymore, and start doing memory check. It's an old Lenovo PC, so I am not surprised, probably was never actually tested for 8GB of RAM, as already 4GB was insane back the days). I got her GeForce GTX 730 fanless because I needed GPU drivers which didn't exists for Windows 10, and a cheap SSD at the time

[Trevor87]

Oops qouted on the wrong thing there.

sorry  @GoodBytes

43 minutes ago, AFewFalling said:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU    E6850 @ 3.00GHz 3.00GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 2.00 GB

 

64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

 It only supports 32 bit OS.

[GoodBytes]

2 minutes ago, Trevor87 said:

Oops qouted on the wrong thing there.

sorry  @GoodBytes

 It only supports 32 bit OS.

No, the Core 2 Duo he has does support 64-bit instruction set.

https://ark.intel.com/products/30785/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-E6850-4M-Cache-3_00-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB

[Trevor87]

17 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

No, the Core 2 Duo he has does support 64-bit instruction set.

https://ark.intel.com/products/30785/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-E6850-4M-Cache-3_00-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB

Yep right

 

[AFewFalling]

On ‎8‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 4:43 PM, Trevor87 said:

Just check because some Duo cores CPU only support 2 GB of ram 

Sorry, Late reply, but I just figured out I accidentally used DDR3 instead of DDR2.l

[AFewFalling]

On ‎8‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 5:00 PM, GoodBytes said:

That is much faster than my Atom. Windows 10 should run fine on it.

 

Let's start with the basics:

1. You should have 1 Task Scheduler set: OneDrive, if you use it. Else it should be empty. If it's not, post what you see. (screenshot is fine). If you see "Updaters", you can already just remove those. You don't have the luxury for those. Update manually.
    
2. Open Task Manager, and look at the Startup tab. You should have 1 to 3 items in there: Windows Defender, OneDrive (if you use it), and maybe your mouse or keyboard control panel or something. That is all. The rest: Disable!
    
3. Defrag your HDD. It's probably super fragmented. Mind you defragmentation will remove files being separated and scattered all the drive, but won't fix having all the files of a program or OS next to each other. You'l need to do a full drive format and re-install the OS and all your stuff to fix that, or get an SSD.
    
4. You use a shitty Anti-Virus and/or Security Software. Remove them, use Windows Defender.

 

If that doesn't help:

• Check for missing drivers
• Make sure your SATA Controller is set to AHCI in the BIOS (if it is not, don't expect Windows to boot, it will BSOD when you do the switch, leave it to whatever settings it was set (probably: IDE/Legacy), go in Windows 10 and let us know, as you have to do registry stuff to make it work when you switch.
• Your HDD might be dying or extremely sucky, and should be changed. If you have another system with an HDD or SSD that runs fine, running Windows 10, and that system uses BIOS also, and not UEFI, then that drive out, and plug it on your system. Windows 10 will detect the hardware changes, and start disabling all its current drivers and install the correct drivers. That first startup will be slow as a result, let it do its thing. Once in, check for Windows Update to get any remaining missing drivers, if any. Once done, restart, and see if you have performance improvement. If you do, buy a new HDD/SSD. I would get an SSD if space is not an issue.

 

 

Late reply, Just found an 667 GB HDD laying under my bed. Way better than 80GB. BTW, Also got Windows 7, and it works about flawless. It even supported the Intel Chipset Drivers!