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May 14th, 2020 02:00
Win7 rocks, win 10 - poor performance
hello
Own dell 3552, Pentium N3710, 4 cores 4 threads 1.6-2.56GHz, Intel hd405, 8ram ddr3 1600, 250ssd drive fastest that was in stock at the moment of purchase.
Installed Win10 and wanted to play counter strike, but it ran worse, than on my old netbook, drivers and directx, etc were new.
then I removed win 10 and installed win 7...
OMG!
Wolfenstein the new order, wolfenstein2 the old blood, in sd 480p resolution but ran great and smooth!!!
counter strike ran in full hd on external monitor on ultra settings with 16x anisotropic filtering, with good fps in the battles!!!
I was living for years thinking that I cant even run counter strike well on this laptop and I have to pay 1K+ usd to run these games but...... "wolfenstein2 - the old blood", made in 2015 with 50-60fps (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) (on some levels... on some other 20-40) in 480p SD but anyway it was a surprise)))))))))))))))))))) at that times it was the "last-year-most-progressive-3d-shooter" game!!!!
games can run great on N3710 and intel hd405 if WIN 10 IS REMOVED and WIN 7 IS INSTALLED!
after that the Dell Assistant software showed a "tip"... "Update your windows to increase performance.........." LOOOL!!! It will DECREASE the performance!
Win 7 support IS A MUST because changing win10 to win7 gave me up to 5x performance in 3d games!!!!!!!!!!!!! with win7 this laptop is not worse than old Dell alienware x11 R2 intel core i7 640UM / Geforce 335M and sometimes is FASTER!
but with WIN 10 drivers it runs games like my old netbook toshiba NB510, intel atom N2600 2cores/4threads, intel gma 3600....
so WIN7 ROCKS for intel Hd video cards!!!
ejn63
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May 14th, 2020 04:00
Not an option at this point, as Windows 7 no longer has security support (and a good chunk of the "performance boost" from 7 has to do with its insecure nature).
SandStorm_RS
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June 6th, 2020 23:00
the best security support is the user brain.
good antivirus
good firewall (zonealarm is my favourite)
good browser with the needed safety add-ons
good reason to surf safely
he won't have problems.
meanwhile,we always know someone with the latest windows, the latest updates and... is always ridden with viruses & malware.
ejn63
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June 7th, 2020 03:00
The problem is that like a house built well on a weak foundation, all that doesn't matter - - and as time goes on, fewer and fewer security packages, browsers, etc. will even run on Windows 7. It may be OK for a time, but the clock is ticking for 7 just as it did for XP.
U2CAMEB4ME
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June 7th, 2020 04:00
Welcome to the Dell Community @QA_BA and @SandStorm_RS
I have dozens of desktops/laptops running W7.
They will all remain W7 as there is no need to upgrade to W10.
Sorry but I am not here to scare people into thinking they need to upgrade to W10 because of "Security" updates.
Security updates are vulnerabilities found buy various engineering companies payed to look for and repair those that are found.
Most if not all are found that way.
I have never heard of anyone being hacked using a single one of these so called "Security Vulnerabilities"
Best regards,
U2
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"The best security support is the user brain."
ejn63
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June 7th, 2020 05:00
It isn't a matter of scaring anyone into upgrading - the fact is that outside of organizations that are paying Microsoft for Windows 7 updates at this point, it's an unsupported operating system. And recommending anyone stick with an unsupported OS in the business, corporate or academic world is an exercise in poor judgement on the part of the recommender.
Basing the recommendation on anecdotal evidence that you've never seen a Windows 7 system hacked is quite specious as well. It's quite true that no operating system is hack-proof, but the better updated it is, and the more securely designed it is, the less risky it is.
What do you suppose would happen if a business keeping its customers' data on a Windows 7 system in June, 2020 were to be hacked and its user data become exposed due to that? Would its insurance cover the incident?
For anything but entertainment purposes or completely off-line use, Windows 7 is best consigned to the history books. And it'll become more and more a moot point, as security standards evolve and new browsers drop support for it (just as has happened with Windows XP).