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Originally Posted by mrmikel
Gregg, have you run the Windows 7 upgrade advisor, a free download from Microsoft? It would tell you if your machine could even use it in the first place and what problems you would encounter.
It would have to be a clean install which is both an opportunity and a pain in the %^*(. With the machine no longer weighed down by years of junk, it might go faster.
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A clean install can rejuvenate a computer. Or it can be disappointing, when the slowdown wasn't to be blamed on Windows crud, but on a gradually failing hard drive. This is very common with laptop computers in particular.
But have you seen the price of a new computer these days? A workhorse Windows 8 machine costs about the same as half-a-dozen tankfulls of petrol here in the UK. It really isn't worth keeping old equipment limping along.