RE: still running in Windows 10

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

This highlights the issue of just how much often destructive effect a
particular version of a browser can have on a system. Terrifying. Bravo
for being to trouble shoot it.


At 03/08/2015 21:25, you wrote:

Im on a ten-year-old Optiplex
i5 with 8GB of RAM running the original OEM WIN7Pro. System rarely
crashes. Only real trouble I had was with IE11 and FF freezing for serval
minutes at the NYT WEBSITE. After a lot of troubleshooting, solved this
nuisance by dropping back to IE10, then both browsers worked well. I do
my due diligence every week in cleaning out files, defragging, sweeping
for garbage malware and so forth. My boot times run between 35-50 seconds
to screen paint. Dont want to upgrade opsys, or go to new system, in the
middle of a manuscript, but (question), has anyone who has upgraded to an
SSD seen an appreciable difference in performance on an aging
machine?

 

Michael Norman

 

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Subject: Re: still running in Windows 10

 



I'm curious about what sorts of bugs you found in 7. I've been
running 


it for a year now, and for me it just works.





Basically, a crash a week in 7, a crash every six months in 8.1


But, on the other hand, my Win 7 systems have been running much longer
than a year so it could be OS fatigue. And there are countless other
hardware issues that my experiences could be due to.


I am sure it is a good idea to do a clean install every six months or
so, but I can never bear to do it.