windows 10 VS windows 7

[Mohammednt0]

I downloaded Windows 10 in my old laptop (Dell inspiron 1525 - with Windows 7) & found windows 10 is slowing down the system considerably.
the system was very slow, I didn't find any performance advantage. I have now gone back to Windows 7

my old laptop specifications:
Processor: Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T8300 @ 2.40GHz
RAM: ‏2.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 332MHz (5-5-5-15)
Storage: 149GB Seagate ST9160821AS ATA Device (SATA)
Graphics: Generic PnP Monitor (1280x800@60Hz), Intel Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family (Dell)

i checked the minimum system requirements for Windows 7, are as follows:
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor*
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver


and then, i checked the minimum system requirements for Windows 10, are as follows:
Processor: 1 GHz or faster
RAM: 1 GB (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
Free hard disk space: 16 GB
Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

As you can see, windows 10 and windows 7 requirements are identical, and my old laptop specification seems
good enough to run windows 10, so why windows 10 was slower in my old laptop?

one of my friends says "this is because of bloatware that comes with windows 10|", is that true ?

[HansV]

Windows 10 comes with many pre-installed apps, but they don't run unless you start them, so they don't cause slowness. You can simply ignore them. I have found Windows 10 to be a bit faster than Windows 7 during startup and shutdown, otherwise comparable.

Replacing the hard disk with an SSD would greatly enhance performance, both on Windows 7 and Windows 10.

If you decide to try Windows 10 again, you might take a look at the Processes tab of Task Manager to see if there are processes that use a lot of CPU capacity.

[HansV]

By the way, 2 GB RAM is OK if you don't need to open many applications and/or browser tabs simultaneously. If you want to run several applications, and/or open many browser tabs, expanding RAM to 4 GB (or 8 GB) would help.

[JoeP]

The minimum requirements for Windows are just the bare minimum to run Windows itself not what you really need to run in most real world situations. 2GB RAM will not leave much available for apps after Windows loads. In my experience, Windows 10 runs slightly faster than Windows 7 on the same equipment with the same workload.

[viking33]

AS long as your MB will allow it, I think the easier and noticeable way to get some speed improvement would be to upgrade your RAM. As some have mentioned those requirements are for minimums to run, not optimum. Good buys on RAM are out there.
Side comment: I dual boot Win 7 & 10 but only rarely do I go into Win 10. Win 7 is my default boot up.

[Mohammednt0]

thank you all for your great help, i already bought SSD and extra RAM(8GB) for the old Laptop im planing to install them later

thanks a lot