OT: Reviving an old Windows 7 laptop

Tricky Dicky · 2023-07-19T10:48:30+00:00

I have a Toshiba 775 laptop which came originally with Windows 7 installedbut has been upgraded to Windows 10. It has been running very slow forsometime taking ages to open apps and there seems constant HD activitywhich I think is the real problem having tried all the usual attempts toimprove running. We have replaced it with a Dell G5 running Windows 11having taken off everything of use off the old Toshiba I am looking attrying to revive it for use in a computer control situation.The question is how? My first thought is to replace the HD with a SSD. Ofcourse this means how do I reinstall Windows 10. Incidentally the Windows10 installation was an OEM upgrade and I think I have a memory stick with abackup of the download. The last time I ever installed an OS from scratchwe were still using floppy disks. The PC is not compatible for a Windows 11Installation which I had considered.Looking into the issue of reviving the Toshiba which has an Core i5 - 2410M 2.3Ghz processor and 6GB RAM which when I did the upgrade fell well in tothe specifications for Windows 10. Since then I have come across a morecomprehensive list of compatible processors and mine is not listed.Bizarrely it is not even listed as Windows 7 compatible! So the question is am I wasting my time? Is there going to be licensingissues installing the OEM version on another HD? What is going to be thebest way to do the installation?I know we have a lot of Linux fans on here but that is not going to happen.Richard