Hi.
You might try upgrading to windows 8.1 or windows 10, they are slightly
more efficient in general, in some places they will be more sluggish
yet, but on the whole 8.1 and 10 take less system resources to run just
the OS. You could downgrade to xp by using an xp install disk and a
windows xp activation code which may be written on a sticker on the
bottom of the computer in print, of course. However, if xp is half as
unsecure as they claim it is I think you'd be better off granting that
it's a tad old and that it'll be a bit slow and just be patient.
That said, 7 itself is also pretty efficient should not run worse than
xp does. What are the simtims, what have you tried to do to fix it, have
you googled things like speed up my windows 7 computer? Don't install a
random piece of software that might come up in such search results that
claims to speed things up and generally brew your coffee just right, you
want a how to tutorial that'll tell you what steps to take, things like
turning off certain services, making sure the hard disk is not
fragmented, clearing prefetch, turning off unneeded startup entries,
clearing temporary files and so on.
It won't win any races but you should be quite able to do most tasks
with windows 7, 8.1 or 10 with a few granules of patience. I'd know,
I've been there, I've got an Asus netbook running win10 sitting right
beside me in fact, doesn't run it very good actually, but it's an old
version from before windows 10 was actually released. But I had 8.1
installed before that, and 7 before that, and xp still before that, and
I did just fine with both 7 and 8.1. I'm fully prepared to assume that
the slowness it has now is do to prerelease software.
If you think you might like to just buy a new computer and you don't
have lots of money to spend on it, try a nextbook 10 make sure it is the
windows version, from walmart. It's a tablet that comes with a keyboard
dock, the tablet sits down on the hinge and works just like a normal
netbook, but it does have a touch screen and you can pull the screen up
off the dock and use it like a tablet. The biggest downside to this may
be limited connectivity options no full sized USB port, and not very
much storage though it does have an sd card reader. That's a 175 dollar
computer with what sounds like similar specs to what your netbook likely
has, but they do tend to run pretty well, newer and more efficient
hardware in there.
If you have 375 dollars you can pick up an Asus t100 which is just like
the nextbook save that if you buy online, there is a couple of versions
of the t100 that include 500 gb hard drives in the keyboard dock. So for
375 dollars you get a 1.86 or 2.1ghz quad core atom processor, 2 gb of
ram, 32 or 64 gb of solid state storage included in the tablet, an sd
card reader on the tablet, charges via standard micro USB, and the dock
gives you an additional 500 gb of storage and one full sized USB 3 port.
I have and rather like one of these.
Just some things to think about. If you can't seem to get the netbook to
run modern windows at a pace that suits you, it might be wiser to try
and upgrade to a new machine rather than downgrade to older and less
secure software, especially if you like any of the modern functionality
of later versions of windows.
Just for a lark though, if you're completely fed up with windows 7, try
upgrading it to windows 10 while that's free, it might just run better
if not just about as well.
Cheers, Aaron Spears, general Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates
Developing "very good audiogames" for the blind community
http://valiantGalaxy.com Sent with Thunderbird 38.2.0 portable
On 10/29/2015 8:53 AM, John M. wrote:
Running Win 7 with only two GB of Ram is going to be a frustrating
experience. Can you add an additional two GB of ram to your computer?
It will make a huge difference in the performance of Win 7.
John
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Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 5:58 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] downgrading back to xp
I have a HP netbook with 2 gigs of ram. I upgraded my netbook from XP
to windows seven a while back. I'm using Jaws v15 and I noticed the
netbook is incredibly sluggish. I am wondering if I roll it back to
XP would that speed up the netbook computer?
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