Windows 10: What to expect from windows 10 on a low end pc?

Yes I did and many other cleaning and optimizing. But still the clean install was incomparable with the upgrade. It also stopped most errors I was getting in event viewer.

 

A little misogyny really improves the thread.

 

Exactly what I was thinking. *Think

My wife is a computer programmer. She typically shows better restraint and judgment than me when it comes to installing frivolous software.

 

I installed 10 over 7 Home Premium on a Compaq CQ50-105NR from 2008. (AMD Athlon X2 QL60 CPU, nVidia 8200m graphics, nVidia motherboard chipset.) All necessary drivers were either carried over from 7 or updated, with the exception of something for the CPU. (Yellow explanation mark in Device manager for coprocessor.) I fixed that by manually installing the 7 driver. Some of the drivers are MS generic and may not give optimal performance, but everything works.

The upgrade hasn't transformed the laptop into a faster machine, but it's a change.

I didn't turn off Windows Defender during the upgrade on that, or on my two desktop PCs. No problems.

 

I have installed W10 on a Pentium 4 from 2005. 1 GB of DDR RAM. It runs surprisingly well. I remember to have installed w7 on some 1GB Atom netbooks and it struggled a lot. From w8.x onwards Windows seems more forgiving for 1GB RAM machines. I guess the kernel was improved and was reduced in size. The main issue is to have all necessary drivers.

 

Defender is part of Windows thus it doesn't need to be uninstalled; I meant any third-party a/v.

 

I've done 7 upgrades now. I've seen a performance improvement on all of them and a couple of them are very low end laptops, even one Acer Aspire One netbook. One Gateway laptop used to drive me nuts it was so slow and now it has come up to not so bad performance. On my home built desktop with older hardware I did have to force some old Windows 7 and even a Windows Vista driver in, but it works great now!

 

go for it, just wait to w10 to build the index and manage a few things, after that it's lighter and faster

 

I upgraded an 8 year old, Acer Aspire One netbook which has a 1.6Ghz Atom cpu and 1.5GB of RAM. The upgrade went smoothly (although it took 2.5 hours) and everything seems to work as it should. Performance is adequate (the netbook never was a speed demon) to perform "normal" tasks like web surfing, email, word processing, spreadsheets, etc...

 

I'm running a system that's very similar, slightly newer video card, but 2.3ghz AMD CPU, only 2 gb of Ram, but I;ve got several TB of storage.

I've got Windows 7 running on one partition, and I installed 10 fresh on a new 1 TB HDD. At first, it had no drivers at all, and my Mouse would not work. I had to buy an activation. But after that, Windows 10 started finding my hardware and it installed all of my drivers no sweat. The only thing it did not find was my ancient Brother HP-1230 Laser printer. I had to use an XP driver, and that required 16-bit support, which activated on it's own during the driver install. Without the 16 bit support, the printer does not work, so I probably would not be able to run 64 bit Windows 10 here.

Everything else has shown up, old GeForce 8400 GS Video card, the system works rather well except for some problems with iTunes 11.

 

Did he say I ****ing Tunes???? *chuckle*chuckle*chuckle

 

The lowest spec machine I have knocking about, that can be setup without hassle, is a horrible Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop running XP.

AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-50, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, integrated ATI graphics.

There is no driver support for any OS beyond XP.

I think I'll put Win 10 on it for experimental purposes, lol.

I'll report back if I do.

You deserve some props for that, mate.

 

No joy, Win 10 won't install on the Inspiron 1501. Just getting the 0xC1900101 - 0x20017, Black Screen, error. Even booting from a USB gives the Black Screen. Tested the handful of BIOS settings you can actually change and it was the same story. Not that bothered enough to dismantle it and remove potentially problematic hardware, lol.

I did learn that it runs a billion times better with Windows 7, though. So that's a bo; can probably use it, or give it away, for some purpose or another.