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Originally Posted by JackDidley
Funny, I just fired up the old XP laptop and am posting from it now. Amazed how fast and functional it is. It has been a while.  |
Mine slowed way down.......... I suspect the years of updates buried it. So slow it is unusable and yeah the browser thing............
Even chrome is glacial. The machine is ancient and redundant so I retired it.
My W7 machine, I turned off up dates several years ago......... I run cleaner and norton on it. Still runs like a champ.
Have a W10 machine for a couple years now, configured for enterprise ("pro")?............ none of the advertising BS. I Run ad block and flash block in chrome......... Sophos for security (which I hate).
I did lose scan functionality for my networked printers (cheap HP 4500s)
Machine runs fine, though I suspect it is rating me out to the cloud with every key stroke.
Tough to use the internet AND be anonymous. and Free internet apps, (mail, browsers ect) are not really "free".