- Jan 2, 2012
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First off, in years of use I have almost no problems with Vista. (On the other hand, a few months of Win10 has been total PITA but I'm not going to go there.)
I found myself wondering: is a newer OS more efficient?
2 machines:
* Venerable Dell Inspiron 1525 taptop; dual-core 1.8GHz; 3Gig RAM. It has been running Vista for browsing and email and such reliably for years. But I'm sure Registry is pret'near toxic so I'm going to wipe the HD and ReDo from Start. Question: Plain vanilla / original Vista? or 32bit Win7?
* Not quite so venerable HP Compaq; dual-core 3.0 GHz; 8Gig DDR2. This box has been the corner-stone of my LAN, babysitting 3 extrenal drives for backup and random storage. It was running Win10 reasonably well til a suggestion from @WindowsSupport frabbed the Network Adapter. (Intel tells me to talk to HP because it's onboard; HP tells me it's an old machine and cannot run Win10 ... though it handled all parts Win10 for months ... and @WindowsSupport just doesn't reply.) Being on LAN is its reason for living. So easy enough I can re-install Win7-32 ... or even -64. Or, might there be benefit from regressing to Vista? (I know a lotta folk hated and still hate Vista. I don't.)
Alternative to this is Linux for one or both. But I want to explore these alternatives first.
Laptop: re-install Vista? move up to Win7-32?
PC: Win7 32? or 64? What would happen if I "regressed" to Vista?
I can muck about with the laptop but I need to get the PC back to work real soon.
TIA
--ben
p.s. the other 2 machines on my LAN are custom built, one of them my game rig; both Win7-64.
I found myself wondering: is a newer OS more efficient?
2 machines:
* Venerable Dell Inspiron 1525 taptop; dual-core 1.8GHz; 3Gig RAM. It has been running Vista for browsing and email and such reliably for years. But I'm sure Registry is pret'near toxic so I'm going to wipe the HD and ReDo from Start. Question: Plain vanilla / original Vista? or 32bit Win7?
* Not quite so venerable HP Compaq; dual-core 3.0 GHz; 8Gig DDR2. This box has been the corner-stone of my LAN, babysitting 3 extrenal drives for backup and random storage. It was running Win10 reasonably well til a suggestion from @WindowsSupport frabbed the Network Adapter. (Intel tells me to talk to HP because it's onboard; HP tells me it's an old machine and cannot run Win10 ... though it handled all parts Win10 for months ... and @WindowsSupport just doesn't reply.) Being on LAN is its reason for living. So easy enough I can re-install Win7-32 ... or even -64. Or, might there be benefit from regressing to Vista? (I know a lotta folk hated and still hate Vista. I don't.)
Alternative to this is Linux for one or both. But I want to explore these alternatives first.
Laptop: re-install Vista? move up to Win7-32?
PC: Win7 32? or 64? What would happen if I "regressed" to Vista?
I can muck about with the laptop but I need to get the PC back to work real soon.
TIA
--ben
p.s. the other 2 machines on my LAN are custom built, one of them my game rig; both Win7-64.
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