Whenever a boomer shows me a 15 year old computer, and asks: can you just delete a few programs to make the computer faster:
Yes, I know I could delete the windows, and make let it run on Linux, but that is not something they would accept anyway.
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@LukeAlmighty the best method would be to upgrade them to an SSD.
when i got ahold of my grandparents' computer they had like 3 different antiviruses installed (two of which i've never heard of) because they got it from some prebuilt place too so that's a good thing to look for.
@LukeAlmighty if startup is taking a long time it could also just be startup programs. a lot of old people have a shit ton of programs on startup that they installed years ago to complete one task. so you don't have to uninstall it because they'll still click the same icon to bring it up if they ever want to use it, but getting rid of it on startup will help a lot.
@beardalaxy
I know...
But also, do not forget, that she has an up to date legal Windows, and that means also up to date "telemetry" and updates, that need to be extracted on background using new compression algorithms etc.
New win 7 and old win 7 are not the same.