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Win7 installed over XP; problems with Defender & ultra-slow CPU speeds
Hello good people,
I recently installed Win7 for a friend of mine, over an existing XP Home Edition. I thought I had done a clean install but, after upgrading her RAM from 256MB to 1.2GB:
As you can see the PC is an old AMD Athlon so I'm guessing that could be the sticking point, because even with this much RAM the CPU is maxing out at 100% just using iexplorer.
But, I am actually hoping that there is just a conflict, perhaps an unclean install because having downloaded, and attempted to install Windows Defender I get the following message:
Hopefully, I've not wasted all these hours (about 8 mins to boot up!) just to tell her she needs a newer PC because even though she is quite happy with the speed, as it is a marked improvement from before, I would like to leave it with her, at least in the best possible shape.
Thanks for reading and your advice greatly appreciated...