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Easiest fix is save your personal data and reformat the hardrive. Then reinstall windows 7.
Mechanical hard drives are all slow compared to solid state drives which are at least 4 times faster because there are no moving parts and all the flash memory cells are powered up and can quickly read or write data at any time.
Windows 7 Ultimate or Pro is by far my favorite operating system. Win7 Ultimate has everything Microsoft ever made for windows 7 in it or it's downloadable from MS.
I hate Windows 8 or 8.1 and it's charms bar, but the annoying charms bar can be calmed down in the task bar properties dialog box menu.
Window 8 or 8.1 is semi tolerable with the Classic Shell windows 7 start menu installed and running in it after the awful charms bar is modified and shut off as much as possible.
Only good thing about windows 8 or8.1 is it can be updated to windows 10 for free if you saved the install files back when MS was giving it away for free 2 or 3 years ago.
Windows 10 is almost as bad as 8 but at least it comes with a start menu.
There is no privacy in Windows 10 unless you are disconnected from the internet and Microsofts servers. That said, Jetboost and Spybot Anti Beacon will help turn off Windows 10 user telemetry with Microsoft until the next windows 10 update turns it back on... and you can not turn off windows update in windows 10 unless you know how to do that in services, you can only defer it for a very short while.
Another nice thing about windows 7 is you can completely turn off windows update in windows update settings if you want to.
There is a program out there called remove wat which will remove windows activation technologies from windows 7.
Windows 10 compatibility mode for old XP progams is garbage and does not work at all for some programs.
Windows 7 compatibility mode for old windows XP programs works really well in my experience.
I still install Classic Shell in Windows 10 Pro and set it for the Windows 7 start menu because I'm used to it and like it better. With classic shell installed in 10 you can easily switch back and forth from the windows 10 start menu with it's tile screen to the windows 7 style start menu.
With Windows 10 home or Pro it's like you never own the operating system and Microsoft just lets you use it because you will never have full control of it as long as you are connected to the internet while the microsoft servers are monitoring your operating system and in control of it... If you don't believe me just try installing KMSPICO and see how long it takes for windows 10 to remove it.
I do know what I am talking about and I know more about windows than some professional IT guys I have met or know.
I don't like MAC either but it is a good workstation operating system for graphic designers, photographers, and artists.
MAC is color managed, can display the full Adobe RGB color space, and has a larger color Gamut then Windows because of it. Windows can only display the smaller srgb color space
For most people that makes no difference but Graphic designers and Art directors want to use the larger color managed Adobe RGB color space for good reason.
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