“Have you tried installing classic shell? It does make 8.1 a lot more usable and gives you a lot of settings to basically make it look like Win 7, but keep the better efficiency, memory management etc of win8.
Agree though, boot my lappie, with no applications running, it's using 2GB of RAM 8GB seems to be the minimum now, no doubt my next one will have 16...
Yet I remember my old IBM thinkpad back in 2002, running Windows XP with 1GB of RAM used to run like a dream, split screen with a momitor, run numerous browser sessions, and rarely needed rebooting.
So what happened? ”
Yes, I have it on this laptop... and it's much better, really... but still...
My first computer had 4Mb of RAM... and a 486, DXII 66 processor. I saved up about £120 for another 4Mb and was landed... Life was good.
Now I have 8000Mb of RAM, and life may be more graphically aesthetically pleasing, but, I have to put "When it loads" at the end of every sentence.
"Yeah, great when it loads"
"Yup, Ill call you back when it loads"
"Sure, Ill do it when it loads"
Considering going back to Win 3.11 and a dial up modem. Life was simpler.