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Originally Posted by john70t
Win7 is 32bit and Win10 is 64bit.
You'll probably lose a lot of programs which are now incompatible because emulation or backwards-compatibility or whatever it's called was not built into 10.
I believe Win7 was limited to utilizing only 4GB of RAM at a time despite the hardware so that is one major improvement with larger tasks.
The first thing I did with Win10 was go into "Apps" settings and turn off everything that was running in the background. Permissions not granted.
(they are all on by default)
Jigsaw/Xbox still starts on its own occasionally and can't be uninstalled. Same with EdgeUpdate and a few others.
This laptop computer only has 4GB of RAM and occasionally slows down, possibly due to background virus scanning and a ton of saved Waterfox bookmarks, but most of the time it runs pretty smoothly.
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Depends on the hardware and which vendor you bought it from - 64bit support started with XP. And PAE also started with XP on 32bit systems, so you could use more than 4gb but any single process was limited to 4gb. Kinda like himem.sys on DOS ....
For a Win7 level machine, the best upgrade would be to Linux Mint w/ MATE desktop or some other Linux distro with a lightweight desktop (NOT Gnome3/Unity or KDE, one is ugly and unusable, the other a resource hog)