Changing Microsoft OS on my netbook?

[D-man.]

I picked up a Samsung N120 a few months back with Windows 7 starter pack on it.

However the computer only has 1gb RAM so the Win 7 is slow as hell.

I'm tight and don't wanna spend the money on a 1gb upgrade, which would be one option. I only use it for MS office and pissing about on the net.

I checked out ubuntu and didn't like it, I've been on MS OS's my whole life so am happy with staying with them.

But how do I go about changing the OS?

Is it something I can do myself? Where do I get another one from? Can I download XP, or Vista?

I'm living in Thailand so putting on a fake windows will cost about 7 quid down in the IT malls, but if there are issues with it, or I don't like it, can I change it back to the original Win 7? or is it that once it's gone, it's gone?

cheers chaps.

[D-man.]

Looking around it seems Vista would be suitable.

Will try and find a download of it.

[D-man.]

Emergency averted.

Spent the past hour following these:

http://www.computingunleashed.com/sp...-guide-to.html

Found from google 'How to speed up windows 7'.

And ruddy hell it's like a new computer. Is twice the speed.

and free I tells ya... freeeeeee.

[Smeggle]

Originally Posted by D-man.

Emergency averted.

Spent the past hour following these:

http://www.computingunleashed.com/sp...-guide-to.html

Found from google 'How to speed up windows 7'.

And ruddy hell it's like a new computer. Is twice the speed.

and free I tells ya... freeeeeee.

least ye saved yourself from putting that abortion of a piece of shite Vista on it..

btw ye live in Thailand? RAM would be an cheap as sin there...

[D-man.]

btw ye live in Thailand? RAM would be an cheap as sin there...

Think it's about 2000 baht to get a gig put in, maybe a bit less. Which is about 50 quid. No idea if that's cheap or not. It's 2000 baht more than I want to spend though.

[waveform]

Putting Vista on it would have made it slower.

Win 7 is far more optimized.

[D-man.]

Coolio.

Got a fake 2002 XP on my main lappy, a Dell Inspiron 1300 with a massive 760gigs of RAM and it's lightening quick, and does everything I need.

Mainly porn, MS office, and internetty. And playing me downloaded docos through my flatscreen and soundsystem.

Must say that I'm quiet happy with the new speed of my netbook if I still fancy a change it might be back to XP.


BTW, can you have 2 OS on a computer and choose one at start-up? Wouldn't fancy getting rid of my original Win 7 to put on a fake older XP.

[flynny51]

760gigs of RAM?

[Smeggle]

Originally Posted by D-man.

Coolio.

Got a fake 2002 XP on my main lappy, a Dell Inspiron 1300 with a massive 760gigs of RAM and it's lightening quick, and does everything I need.

Em doubt it has that much RAM ..sure your not getting mixed up with hard drive space? Max RAM that model can take is 4GB

Originally Posted by D-man.

BTW, can you have 2 OS on a computer and choose one at start-up? Wouldn't fancy getting rid of my original Win 7 to put on a fake older XP.

Yes - it's fairly easy but ye really need to set it up from scratch . partition the drive and then install from there....

ye can do pretty much any combination really...

windows 7 / Linux
XP / Linux

or ye can use vm ware which is different setup altogether..

[D-man.]

Sorry, my main lappy at home has 760MBs of RAM, not GBs.

^ Cool, thanks.