Best OS for a low end pc.

Hello Denis, my name is Marco and I am an Independent Advisor. I will do my best to help you.

Windows 7 is the lightest and most user-friendly for your laptop, but the updates are finished for this OS. So it's at your risk.

Otherwise you can opt for a light version of Linux if you are quite adept with Linux computers. Like Lubuntu.

As you can see below, the system requirements are almost the same ... If you have problems with slowness with Windows 10 and want to change, you can try before the 32 bit version of Windows, instead of 64bit.

My personal opinion would really be windows 10 home 32 bit before Windows 8.1 which is almost the same in terms of configuration required but less user friendly than the W10.

-Minimum System required for Windows 7

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

-Minimu mSystem required for Windows 8.1

Processor. 1 gigahertz (GHz)* or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2

RAM. 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)

Hard disk space. 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

Graphics card. Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

-Minimum System requirements for Windows 10

Processor. 1 gigahertz (GHz)* or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2

Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC

RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit

Hard disk space: 16 GB for 32-bit OS or 20 GB for 64-bit OS

Graphics card: DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver

Display: 800 x 600

Or even do a little cleaning. Sometimes the slowness of Windows can come from malware.

You can still scan with these software below. Maybe it will improve things.

AdwCleaner : https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/

Malwarebytes : https://malwarebytes.com/

ESET’s Free Online Scanner : https://www.eset.com/me/home/online-scanner/

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As you said windows 7 is out of support so do you think it could maybe to Windows 8.1?