On Monday, January 30, 2017 at 12:06:45 PM UTC-5, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per Ed Pawlowski:
... I'd go with W7. I find it a bit
better than XP.

+1, but with the observation that I have 8.1 on my laptop and, since
installing something called "Start8" and tweaking a few settings, it
looks/feels pretty much like Windows 7 - i.e. it's 100% livable for me.
--
Pete Cresswell

Just out of curiousity, why didn't you upgrade to Win 10 when you
could have for free?