Tha absolute worst version of windows I've ever used.

I've had this laptop six or seven years.

Other than that I use Chrome on my Samsung tablet.

Windows 7 was the last decent version of Windows.

But that was almost 30 years ago. I am not qualified to give you advice on your current situation. I was just giving my position of Windows 10. It's a shame they can't fix the dislike of their fiasco. Come on Microsoft, you CAN do better.

If your 7-15 year old grandchild can't fix it, pay for a professional.

Windows 7 has not received new security updates for years, you'd be putting yourself at serious risk.

I was forced to upgrade by my IT department. It's awful. I've never seen a high end laptop run so slowly before. Fortunately, I'm retiring soon. All the machines at home are Linux except my wife's machine. I have a Windows 10 virtual system in order to use TurboTax.

It is worth it.

It seems the memory, delivered in two 2gb modules - one of them was seated, but not quite making contact. The laptop was operating on 2GB memory instead of 4. I found this out by looking at system info before opening the case to fix the problem.

Surely a long shot for you, not very common at all.

And see who’s using up all the processing time.

1. Do a cold reset. This just means to shut it down, remove the power cord and the battery and press and hold the power button for a brief time 10 seconds. Then you can reinstall the battery and plug it in and restart it.

2. Get back into windows, find and open the control panel, power options, and set the computer to never sleep. (This is temporary to make sure the computer runs maintenance all the way through without shutting down).

3. From control panel again, open Security and Maintenance and find the button under Maintenance section to press and which manually starts the maintenance cycle. If you wish to keep an eye on system activity open the task manager to monitor it. You basically need to leave it alone to run the maintenance.

Choose Task Manage. That should show you what apps are chewing up your processing time. It shows CPU used / Memory used / Disk Processing / Network Processing

You may have a an app that's been activated and is using your PC for some nefarious purpose.

Clicking on any of those headers will sort to the highest user, instead of the App name. You can right click on the app and "end task. Caution, though, it may impact on your Windows functionality if you don't know what you are stopping.

If uncertain, write down the apps that are creating your problem and either Google the app or post that info here for feedback if this is a part of the O/S or some malicious app using your laptop,

1 Press “Windows + X” and select Control panel.
2 In the search box, type troubleshooter, and then click Troubleshooting.
3 Under System and Security, click Fix problems with Windows Updates.


If that doesn't work, try this below:

1. Browse to "C:WindowsSoftwareDistributionDownload" and delete the contents of the folder.
2. Press Windows key + X > Click Command Prompt (Admin) then type "wuauclt.exe /updatenow".

Hit Enter

3. Open Control Panel > Windows Update and Windows 10 should begin downloading..

Press Windows key + X

Click Command Prompt (Admin)

Type in at the prompt OR Copy and Paste these one at a time : (Hit enter after each)

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

I'm told by M$ that my device will not run W11. That means I'd have to buy a new device.

If M$ really wanted me to spend $$ for a device that will run W11, then they should have done a better job with 10. My regard for them has never been lower.

I will revert my device to W7 and turn it into an isolated workstation. I do most net stuff on my phone or Chromebook now. Microsoft is gonna lose a lot of people after they stop supporting 10.

On the last upgrade I found that MS is putting my Office Desktop files on my laptop. It's a complete, unconnected mess. Thanks Microsoft!