But not for much longer.
Maybe but windows 10 is total crap.
Maybe but windows 10 is total crap.
Datatek
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That is why I'm still using XP. Wife has Win7 and it's soooo slow it would drive me crazy.
Yes, does my head in. Better than Windows 8 was though. That was really horrible.
Datatek
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That's like saying dog poo is better than cat poo, both are shyte.
7 is not slow, you need to clean the system or the processor is slow or insufficient RAM.
My laptop broke last autumn. Not bothered repairing it, although I do have some diagnostic software that runs on it. More hassle than it is worth.
Datatek
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Compared to XP, win 95 or 3.11 it is slow, even with the maximum RAM and a core i5 CPU, plus it keeps coming up with stupid messages in a line at the bottom of the screen where it's less noticeable than in the centre of the screen.
That will be the machine not the operating system. Do a clean up, Windows 7 is not slow. Defragment and download CCleaner free version and use that to clear unwanted crap.
Datatek
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Funny, I worked in computers all my life, designed and manufactured hardware, have systems in the National Computer Museum, I think I know how to clean up a computer. Do you have other systems side by side to bench mark the speeds? Win 7 is Vista with some of the bugs removed, the government will not use iWin 7, they are still paying Micropoo to maintain XP the last I heard.
We've got win10 and it's pretty good to be fair. The last biggest update sorted a lot of hanging issues. I've pictures everywhere now!
Ok carry on, i build my own systems don't buy ready made ones never have. Windows 7 is not slow. It is down to the speed of the machine using it.
I have to say I did like XP back in the day. Vista was a disaster Win 7 I liked once I got the hang of it. When 8 came out and it was bloody awful and ten was just woeful. It's like 7, but they hid loads of stuff and you can't find it! They changed things that were previously just great the way they were.
I'm still getting the hang of the Mac, but like I stated, it just does exactly what you want it to do without any fannying about. Needs an update? It asks if you want to install it, while you're working by the way 60 seconds later it's done and it's "still" working away as it was... It just works
Win 7 I liked once I got the hang of it. When 8 came out and it was bloody awful and ten was just woeful. It's like 7, but they hid loads of stuff and you can't find it! They changed things that were previously just great the way they were.I'm still getting the hang of the Mac, but like I stated, it just does exactly what you want it to do without any fannying about. Needs an update? It asks if you want to install it, while you're working by the way
60 seconds later it's done and it's "still" working away as it was... It just works
Datatek
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Build your own system? That amounts to buying a mother board and plugging in some memory, choosing a fast HDD and a few other bits, my 10 year old grandson can do that.. I used to design boards and make them, also had our own operating system that would run 5 dumb terminals and a printer on a 386 giving millisecond response times on sales order processing.
Good for him, maybe he can help you with your wife's Windows 7, obviously you don't have a clue what to do with it. Windows 7 is not slow unless clogged up with crap or the machine itself is slow.
Datatek
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It must be wonderful to know everything about absolutely everything. Sadly I never reached such heights of knowledge, my one blessing is that I continue to learn despite my age.
The only thing that gives a significant improvement on my wife's Win 7 laptop is to back up all the data to an external hard drive, wipe the drive and do a complete re-install which is time consuming. It is then faster, but not for long.
Then something is wrong with the machine itself. Either RAM or processor or hard drive or a combination of those. Or you have crap stored on it slowing it down that you store on the external drive, then put back on it. But it is not the operating system that is slow.
The way I heard it, Micropoop were sending updates with the deliberate function of clogging up machines to slow them down to the point where you got fed up and bought a new machine. My 7 was unbearably slow so my neighbour formatted it and now it's as quick as you like. However, it came with Muck caffee so that was binned immediately It also comes with utter shite that has no bearing on how it functions and all about how they can spy on you! Most of it got binned. ALL I need the 7 to do is play music/films and occasionally fix my suspension
It also comes with utter shite that has no bearing on how it functions and all about how they can spy on you! Most of it got binned. ALL I need the 7 to do is play music/films and occasionally fix my suspension
The way I heard it, Micropoop were sending updates with the deliberate function of clogging up machines to slow them down to the point where you got fed up and bought a new machine. My 7 was unbearably slow so my neighbour formatted it and now it's as quick as you like. However, it came with Muck caffee so that was binned immediately
That is what i am trying to tell Keith but he will not listen. Being an expert and all he knows best.
RangeRoller dt
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I agree with the update thing mentioned earlier. As I didn’t have internet on my XP cpu (long time ago) I never encountered problems others had but the one day I did update it, it became too much hassle to be worth using it.
Computers are like anything else, clog them up and they slow down. The train time from Preston to Glasgow is 2 hr 22 mins. But if every trip they added a truck with 20 tons of coal in then another next time to it, the time would progressively increase to the point that the engine would not be able to pull the weight. With a computer you have to clean the crap out of it on a regular basis.
