Recommendation for a slow laptop – another OS maybe?…
November 25th, 2021
Since the day I’ve first used it, it has been extremely slow.
It takes softwares a long time to go up, opening a video with Media Player Cassic can take almost 40 seconds, browser windows are annoying, and I actually can’t watch any Youtube videos since it is so slow it’s stuck every half a second (not buffering, just stuck)
It seemed weird to me that Dell would manufacture and sell such a thing, and tought it might be just the way mini-laptops are, but after seeing it wasn’t like that with other laptops, it guess it’s just mine.
Would you maybe reccomend something I can do to get a better use out of this thing? maybe lower the OS to XP, or maybe there’s a “lighter” version of W7 or W8?…
Thank you in advanced.
with win 7 and 1 gb of ram you are probably paging, which would slow things down slower than expected.
you see, you have to look at your hardware and see what is bottle necking you, then resolve that 1 issue.
why not monitor your resources and see what it is that is slowing you down? then you would know the best course of action, or could be recommended the best course of action.
with 0 technical data, people can only assume and guess at what might solve your problem, like my guess above. you could also be maxing your CPU, or your have a bad hard drive, or many other things.
lastly, windows xp will die in a few months, so don’t let someone tell you to install that.