Windows 10: Is it possible to run windows 10 on this potato pc?

specs: Intel G41 chipset pentium dual core E5300 2.4Ghz Ram: 2 gb 1 tb hdd space It's currently running on a windows 7 ultimate which is corrupted.

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

32-bit Windows 10 build 1909 running way too slow, though admittedly it's on a potato PC

TL;DR - Are there any known performance/optimization problems with 32-bit Windows 10 build 1909, specifically on 13-year-old potato PCs that otherwise meet & exceed the minimum specs?

To whom it may concern,

I have a very old netbook -- an ASUS Eee 1000H, released around 2007-ish -- which was originally designed for Windows XP and Linux. Many years ago, I was able to obtain an upgrade to Windows 7 Pro, which -- paired with an SSD upgrade -- actually runs swimmingly
well on this little 5-hour potato. With the ceasing of official support for Windows 7, I've quite extensively explored upgrading to Windows 10 on this little potato.

However, 32-bit Windows 10 build 1909 runs like molasses. Despite this netbook exceeding the posted system requirements (1.6 GHz dual core, 2 GB RAM, 240 GB SSD, etc.), it takes 3-5 minutes for Windows 10 to go from the password-entry screen, to drawing
& redrawing the desktop over and over, to finally finishing all the laggy background loading going on. After waiting for Windows 10 to become responsive, clicking on the Start menu forces the OS to halt & completely freeze for up to a minute each time while
the OS draws the Start menu over the desktop.

I've tried dozens of speed tricks online, from disabling search indexing, to forcing Windows Update through registry/policy tweaks to only check for updates and never download them in the background, to setting Windows 10's visual effects to "best performance"
(disabling everything, even "smooth screen fonts"), disabling all startup apps & as many background services as possible, and turning on/off system restore & the system page file... all to no avail.

I've also tried both a direct, in-OS upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10, as well as a clean, freshly-zero'ed Windows 10 install from BIOS boot... both ways result in the same crippling lag & load times.

I'm starting to wonder if this is a performance problem in 32-bit builds of Windows 10 b1909... I've found several years-old posts through web searches of people upgrading to Win10 on their own similarly-specced ASUS Eee PCs (and other netbooks) and really
loving how Win10 runs on it.

By comparison, Windows 8.1 runs shockingly well on this little guy... but the 1024x600 screen falls below Win8.1's minimum Metro apps screen resolution of 1024x768, and Metro apps will not run at all. While I may ultimately have to settle with Windows 8.1 despite
Metro apps not working, it would ultimately not be an ideal solution.

I am, of course, aware of the fact that I'm running a 13-year-old low-power netbook whose network name is literally "POTATO," and that it might simply fall to the fact that potatoes can't run Windows 10... it just shocks me, the night-and-day performance difference
between Windows 7/8.1 and Windows 10 on this thing. My other two computers run 64-bit Windows 10 like champs, though they are significantly more powerful.

To Microsoft: Do you have any feedback with regards to 32-bit Windows 10 b1909 optimization? Any known issues with 32-bit builds on potato PCs?

To everyone else: Do you have any experience with running 32-bit Windows 10 b1909 on your own similarly-specced netbook? Or, any experience running previous 32-bit Win10 builds and now build 1909? Is it still running great for you, all things considered?

Thanks in advance!

 

Installing Windows 10 on New PC?

I'm going to be building a new PC on Christmas and want to install Windows 10 on it. I have Windows 10 on my current PC, which I installed upgrading from 8.1 with the files on a USB. How do I go about installing a clean copy of Windows 10 on this new PC? I think I recall something about installing it once makes Microsoft recognize your hardware, but since this will be a PC I'm not sure what steps I need to take. Do I need to go 8.1 -> 10 or is there a method of going directly to 10?