(03-10-2021, 03:59 AM)cookie2 date Wrote:[member=153]LP[/member]I don't doubt your experience [member=36]cookie2[/member], but I will tell you on our network we have PCs with far older processors than i5 that run Win 10 comfortably so don't give up! It's this ability to unify the OS for old and new hardware that partially drove the decision.
I am a happy user of W10 on my standalone HP laptop, which I believe has the latest version. My problems were with the Dell which just did not want to run under W10 and it became an absolute nightmare, so much so that I took the drastic action of reverting it to W7. That was a few years ago now.
Alternatively, if you'd like to try something completely different, download and boot a live CD or DVD of something like Linux Mint for that older hardware, you might find it delivers it a new lease of life! It's a version of Linux that has been skinned to be reasonably familiar for WinXP or Win7 users, and we use it whenever we have cause to migrate a workstation to Linux. Some people swear by the Cinnamon edition, but my preference is Mate which older Linux / Unix users will understand why.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"