On 07/09/2019 19:41, dennis@home wrote:
On 07/09/2019 14:13, John Rumm wrote:
On 06/09/2019 21:04, T i m wrote:
On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 13:32:18 +0100, Graeme
wrote:


I have one of the above which was often useful, but now lives in a
cupboard because it runs XP Home, which is no longer 'secure', and
cannot be upgraded to W7 or above.

Have you tried OOI?

If you are going to wipe XP anyway, it might be worth trying W10 on
it. You can install it using a W7 if you happen to have one unused.
;-)

The W10 media can be downloaded for free with the 'Windows 10 media
creation tool' and can be put onto a USB stick (by the tool):

You can install from that even without a key - it will run and have a
warning in the corner of the screen, but still work ok. Certainly
adequate for testing to see what the performance is like.





It will run quite well in 2g RAM and will even run in 1G but boot times
are quite slow.

I actually have win10 on a netbook and it runs but is slow due to it
being a !GHz AMD CPU. They are nowhere near as fast as an atom.

Yup, if it looks like its going to work ok, then a cheap upgrade would
be to slap a SSD in there in place of the HDD (assuming its a SATA
interface on the drive).


--
Cheers,

John.

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