Should I replace windows operating system? With what?

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Drop a few $'s and get an ssd for that old machine; it will purrrr for another decade.

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I bet the 5400 rpm mechanical drive is the weak link. It might be also that the chip in that machine is an old 32bit Atom CPU. I found the lightest, yet functional Linux distro is Rasbian Pi OS x86. (the Raspberry Pie OS based on debian) If I recall; the last time I played with it, it used about 200mb of RAM after full boot.

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I actually did that and maxed out the ram. It really did help.

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