Re: Win10 low RAM Follow up

On 11/5/21 3:13 PM, philo wrote:
> I have a friend with an almost unusable laptop running Win10 64 bit. The 
> machine cannot accept more than 4 gigs of RAM.
> 
> 
>  From my experimenting  with other low end machines, I've found that 3 
> megs of RAM and Win10 32 bit gives much better performance than Win10_64 
> and 4 gigs of RAM>
> 
> I've been thinking of reloading the OS, but wonder if I'd be better off 
> just cloning to a SSD?
> 
> 
> Yes, they will get a new machine one of these days bit for now, their 
> smartphone is sufficient.
> 

Finally had a chance to look at the machine today and now all is well.


First , all I had to do was take a bunch of crap out of startup.

Next, a disk cleanup and finally a defrag.

No need to perform a fresh install.

It's only a 260 Gig drive so I could cheaply clone to an SSD but it's 
probably not worth the bother.