Thanks, yeah, but this laptop has something wrong with it.
I do have an iso of windows 7, so all set there. I do wanna keep it as a gaming computer offline, and record keeping- also as a backup for photos- so not worried about installing older versions of windows o. It, but gotta determine what is causing it to be so slow first though. A relative owned it, and she was elderly and definitely not tech savvy. I e scanned for viruses, Uninstaller most of the crapware, cle a Ned ot down to a base install almost, but it didn’t help the issue, and the fact that Linux is even super slow on it might indicate ram or HD issue
Thanks for the offer, but I can try a few things first, like changing out had to an ssd, checking ram and increasing if needed.
I probably should just buy a cheap one to replace it, but I like th3 challenge. I’d also like to 3xperiment with like windows 98 se on it at some point, but might do that in a vm.
No doubt... Chances are something is sucking up all of its RAM and it is running on “virtual memory” on your hard drive. Press CNTR ALT Delete, open your task manager and then take a look at which processes are using all your resources. There is a good chance that will give you some idea of what is going wrong. There is a 90% chance that you have some sort of software issue or a woefully low amount of RAM which is something that slows Windows 10 to a crawl.