some tinkering in the OS settings is also needed although my tinkering would probably cripple a laptops Wi-Fi abilities.
Andavari, for the benefit of some, perhaps sometime when you have time, you could list your windows configuration. That would probably take too long, forget I mentioned it!
Ha, ha, you funny. I laugh because that would take forever because I have an XP "tweaks" folder that contains hundreds of little things I do. It isn't just security related either, most of it is found by scouring the Internet and archiving the information learned.
Ha, ha, you funny.
I laugh because that would take forever
Ya! I figured it would take quite sometime.
I should have just cancelled the post.
Well some of those "tweaks" from say XP aren't even relevant for Vista and newer - such as TCP optimization for broadband, etc.
Microsoft started giving win 10 away free about July 29th 2015.
At this point in time win 10 has achieved a whopping 13.56% market share. See here:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201502-201602
After 2 years of vigorous condemnation by microsoft and others, win xp has about 7%
I can say for sure that win xp works better and faster that win 7 on the same new hardware. And by golly, its safe, too.
It used to be that win xp required a bit more "involvement" by the user but that isn't true anymore.
These days it requires a huge effort.. . . far more effort than it should be . . . to avoid being tricked into installing win 10 over top of win 7 or win 8.
The point? I think microsoft is right now in the process of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Trust is like a balloon. Regardless of how strong it is, one puncture and it is never the same.
I cannot now trust any initiative by microsoft.
Please excuse the strong language, but the situation makes me angry.
I am in discussions with all my clients about how to make the transition to Linux. They both seem to be in agreement.
w3schools website has similar stats for Win10, but has XP at 2%
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
I think they base their figures on interrogating the browsers used on the web and finding the OS from that.
Win7 seems to be going strong still.
I can say for sure that win xp works better and faster that win 7 on the same new hardware. And by golly, its safe, too.
Just got a 2 TB Seagate USB 3.0/2.0 hard disk (not SSD) today for my mothers laptop so I can easily do backups primarily with Macrium Reflect. I was surprised my WinXP Pro SP3 system could even use it, so I backed up a ton of my stuff. From what I've read and been told XP shouldn't even support it (even the box it came it stated Windows 7, 8, 10), but go figure it works flawless in XP with the disk capacity even being reported correctly, hell I can even defrag it.
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My mothers Win10 Dell laptop that she bought new in Nov 2015 in my opinion is stupid slow and I'd never imagine something so new being so frustratingly slow, and she bought the fastest processor Dell had available and some other "upgrades." It literally has to be running for a full 5 minutes before I consider it actually usable when it stops acting like an old clunker, and it does that even after being defragmented with Windows Defrag which seemly needs a million passes (exaggeration it's more like 7-9 passes I think) to completely defrag the drive with damn near nothing on it other than the huge OS install with a very small handful of programs. She's even commented on it being slower than hell numerous times, and wanted to know why all the graphics drivers crashes popping up on screen when my old XP computer has none of those issues. At least yesterday Dell patched the graphics drivers for her to stop the constant crashing to a black screen.
With Avira Free Antivirus installed on my old WinXP (the only bottleneck on the computer) it's about a 2 1/2 minute wait for usability - much less time if using Panda Free Antivirus (but it's so buggy at this time I won't use it).
Andavari is your Mom's machine a Dell win 10 install, or did you do a clean Win 10 install on it?
If it's the Dell one I would do a clean 10 install on it (it's easy) and you will see a big difference in speed.
http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/
Factory installed Win10, supposedly it never had a previous installed OS on it.