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Pinning, unpinning, my head is spinning ... jaclaz

Nobody´s ever happy, ain't it? Yes it is. But for those who never take the trouble to read posts of more than 140 characters, the relevant part of my previous post is quoted below:

In addition to the recommendation to update the RAM, what helped my wife's laptop was to change the HD for an SSD. I was thinking I would have to also do a clean install to really see a difference, but merely cloning her drive to an SSD changed things from being intolerable to being as fast as my desktop system. The laptop is now as much of a joy to use as it was when it was brand new. Absolutely incomparable to the agony it had become. I'm sure a clean install would also help, but currently not necessary. Cheers and Regards

Edited: Remember, don't take life so seriously; enjoy life :)

I beleive the redirection is only temporary to alert users of the move, but I agree with your second point, RT1.

My XP experience is best shared pictorially. When covid shut down one of my customers for a couple of months, I went ahead and made a 3D model of my house "just to pass the time". I work out of a home office and below is my living room. Five of those widescreen monitors are ran by a quad-core i7-4770 @ 3.4GHz with 16GB RAM -- XP x64 so all 16GB RAM is usable. Two of the widescreens are TVs, I usually have a sitcom on one and news on the other -- if not news on both. The two laptops (one runs triple boot 7, 10, XP x86 but pretty much always booted into XP, the second runs Win 10) can optionally send to the larger of the two widescreen TVs. The computer room has a quad-core core-two Q6700 @2.66GHz with 3GB RAM -- XP x86 and "only" 3 monitors, two "square", one widescreen. Working from home, basically every customer has their own VirtualBox VM. Most of these VMs are XP x86, a couple of them are Win 10 LTSB. With 16GB as my Host, I can (when needed) run four, five, even six of my guest VMs and not bog the Host down. Not common, but "can" be done. It is common to be running two VMs. But here is my FAVORITE part of this setup -- and it is XP x64 ONLY (this computer originally came with Win10, I've tested with 7, but running XP x64 for speed, efficiency, and this "flaw"). The combination of graphics cards and USB converters to get me to FIVE widescreen monitors has a "flaw" that ONLY occurs in XP x64. Fully updated and most recent hardware drivers. But here is the "flaw" (that I do not want fixed, I love this "flaw") -- when the monitors turn off because of being idle (I do not use screensavers), ONE of the monitors will NOT turn off. So I can let four monitors "sleep" while the fifth monitor runs email or voicemail for if a customer reaches out to contact me while the computer is "sleeping".

Thanks Den, that looks pretty much as I hoped it would. I would have thought that the roytam1 browsers' thread and the Extreme Explorer thread could have been left in the main section though, and perhaps unpinned as they are very active. Just a thought. Incidentally, I was thinking about asking roytam1 to perhaps make a third browser thread soon as the existing one is getting very near the 200 page mark again, which is the point at which the second thread was started.

Only to endorse the suggestion by bphlt and Gansangriff, 7 tends to use the hard disk for "background" (mostly unneeded) activities a lot more than previous Operating Systems, a number of services can be disabled to regain some of the lost performance, but the change to a SSD is what usually gives the install a speed boost without the complexity. About RAM, 2 GB is definitely a bit tight, upgrading to 4 GB (of which you will probably be able to "see" only 3.2 to 3.5 GB) will also make a difference, and - optionally - you can usually (but it depends on the specific hardware) use Gavotte Ramdisk to use some of the "invisible" memory for - say - a small swap file or for the browsers temp folder. jaclaz

Maybe Dixel just had a look at the wrong processor. This one should be yours. https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_2/Intel-Core%202%20Duo%20Mobile%20T5870%20LF80537GG0412MN.html It should have enough power to run Windows 7. It's not perfect, but it should run. An SSD would really boost it up however! First, you have to sort out the drivers for your laptop. Get them all installed and have a look at the devices manager (go to the control panel, then select "system", there should it be somewhere). In that list of all the parts of your laptop, there shouldn't be any questionmarks appearing. Also check, if your graphics card is listed properly there. Things like standard VGA driver don't count (that's not the real driver, it's just a dummy). Anyways, you could make sure, that there is no internet connection present at the installation process. Just pull the cable. Or just skip the WiFi connection (can be done later). Like that, you can make sure if the Windows updates are the problem (which they can be indeed). MS Office dependency... well, was LibreOffice an option? Excuse me for bringing up this lame duck, but you might be able to open some documents with it. Others will look terrible however...

I solved this, it appears that it had an issue with working in vmware therefore the login screen appeared broken. I tested it and it works fine in both virtualbox and real hardware.

this seems to be fixed by upstream commit, hopefully it will be fixed in next build

... But it's coming from a Chinese vendor (so XP support isn't that much of a "surprise" there ... ); however, several members here have expressed their mistrust (some even aversion) for everything with a Chinese origin ; at the end of the day, would you yourself use such a solution? FTR, I don't have any personal issues myself using a Chinese (and/or Russian) product, that is, no additional issues compared to using just US/EU ones... Best regards

If you hate Windows 7, stay out of Windows 7 threads. When a person asks "how can i fix this" we should never answer with "change the OS" unless it is specifically a software related question. For OP, my recommendation is to get the OS to 4 GB RAM, or if the system supports more than 4 GB RAM physical, get it to above that and use a 64-bit OS. Would like to know what type of operations are being done on the system that make it slow. If you are talking about using websites, then this is a totally different situation. As a daily user of a 32 bit Win 7 (specs are higher than yours but) I can tell you that some websites are just too heavy. For example, Youtube works fine but sites with heavy scripting can lock up or crash the browser. Examples of this are sites that continuously load into RAM such as Facebook, Twitter or say... Yandex image search. In my experience, once a browser's memory usage hits around 800 MB on a system with 3.2 GB RAM (4 GB installed on 32bit OS), things can get very slow or things will stop working. It is this experience that I am even considering of replacing my own Win 7 system.

You mean you stole it? jaclaz P.S.: I guess that with this I will enter the list of people not allowed to quote your posts

You mean what we (highly specialized technicians) call a lousy Chrome port? jaclaz

Sure , that would also do nicely, though the idea of a "master post" with a "curated" list is still IMHO "better". jaclaz

I'm gonna drive this old Clunker till the wheels fall off.