Can this Acer Laptop Run Win 10?

It had Win 7 Home on it when new:

Acer 7741G 17", i3 at 2.16 Ghz, 4G RAM, ATI Mobiliity Radeon HD 5470up
2234 Hypermemory, 512MB dedicated.
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It had Win 7 Home on it when new:

Acer 7741G 17", i3 at 2.16 Ghz, 4G RAM, ATI Mobiliity Radeon HD 5470up
2234 Hypermemory, 512MB dedicated.


Windows 10 System Requirements
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...specifications

Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster compatible processor or System on a
Chip (SoC)
RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit
Hard drive size: 32GB or larger hard disk
Graphics card: Compatible with DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
Display: 800x600
Internet Connection: (if you don't have an ISO)

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On 7/10/19 6:58 AM, wasbit wrote:
"Jack of Diamonds" wrote in message
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It had Win 7 Home on it when new:

Acer 7741G 17", i3 at 2.16 Ghz, 4G RAM, ATI Mobiliity Radeon HD 5470up
2234 Hypermemory, 512MB dedicated.


Windows 10 System Requirements
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...specifications

Processor:Â* 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster compatible processor or System
on a Chip (SoC)
RAM:Â* 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit
Hard drive size:Â* 32GB or larger hard disk
Graphics card:Â* Compatible with DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
Display:Â*Â*Â*Â* 800x600
Internet Connection: (if you don't have an ISO)

Yes, but it's an i3 processor. 2.1Ghz. I wouldn't touch win10 on a
1Ghz machine!!!.

My wife has a Sony 2.4Ghz i3 and it's as slow a hell. I put an SSD in
it and did a virgin load of 10 and got rid of all the Sony stuff.
Between the two it's usable at least.

Al

Big Al wrote:
On 7/10/19 6:58 AM, wasbit wrote:
"Jack of Diamonds" wrote in message
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It had Win 7 Home on it when new:

Acer 7741G 17", i3 at 2.16 Ghz, 4G RAM, ATI Mobiliity Radeon HD
5470up 2234 Hypermemory, 512MB dedicated.


Windows 10 System Requirements
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...specifications

Processor:Â* 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster compatible processor or System
on a Chip (SoC)
RAM:Â* 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit
Hard drive size:Â* 32GB or larger hard disk
Graphics card:Â* Compatible with DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
Display:Â*Â*Â*Â* 800x600
Internet Connection: (if you don't have an ISO)

Yes, but it's an i3 processor.Â* 2.1Ghz.Â* I wouldn't touch win10 on a
1Ghz machine!!!.

My wife has a Sony 2.4Ghz i3 and it's as slow a hell.Â*Â* I put an SSD in
it and did a virgin load of 10 and got rid of all the Sony stuff.
Between the two it's usable at least.

Al

I'm planning on using an SSD. If it's still too slow, I'll put Win 7 on it.

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The Jack of Diamonds is hard
The Jack of Diamonds is hard but it's the only card...

On 7/10/19 7:47 AM, Jack of Diamonds wrote:
Big Al wrote:
On 7/10/19 6:58 AM, wasbit wrote:
"Jack of Diamonds" wrote in message
...
It had Win 7 Home on it when new:

Acer 7741G 17", i3 at 2.16 Ghz, 4G RAM, ATI Mobiliity Radeon HD
5470up 2234 Hypermemory, 512MB dedicated.


Windows 10 System Requirements
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...specifications

Processor:Â* 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster compatible processor or
System on a Chip (SoC)
RAM:Â* 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit
Hard drive size:Â* 32GB or larger hard disk
Graphics card:Â* Compatible with DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
Display:Â*Â*Â*Â* 800x600
Internet Connection: (if you don't have an ISO)

Yes, but it's an i3 processor.Â* 2.1Ghz.Â* I wouldn't touch win10 on a
1Ghz machine!!!.

My wife has a Sony 2.4Ghz i3 and it's as slow a hell.Â*Â* I put an SSD
in it and did a virgin load of 10 and got rid of all the Sony stuff.
Between the two it's usable at least.

Al

I'm planning on using an SSD. If it's still too slow, I'll put Win 7 on it.

I'm in a similar situation. My wife and I both have laptops, I use
Linux Mint and she uses Win10. I wish I could get her on Linux but ....

Jack of Diamonds wrote:
It had Win 7 Home on it when new:

Acer 7741G 17", i3 at 2.16 Ghz, 4G RAM, ATI Mobiliity Radeon HD 5470up
2234 Hypermemory, 512MB dedicated.

I would use that. With an SSD...

Download free media.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/soft...load/windows10

Use your COA license key, and it should select "Home"
from the OSes on that x64 disc.

By using the free media, you won't have to crack open
the cellophane on the OS you bought.

Paul

"Big Al" wrote in message
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On 7/10/19 6:58 AM, wasbit wrote:
"Jack of Diamonds" wrote in message
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It had Win 7 Home on it when new:

Acer 7741G 17", i3 at 2.16 Ghz, 4G RAM, ATI Mobiliity Radeon HD 5470up
2234 Hypermemory, 512MB dedicated.


Windows 10 System Requirements
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...specifications

Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster compatible processor or System on
a Chip (SoC)
RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit
Hard drive size: 32GB or larger hard disk
Graphics card: Compatible with DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
Display: 800x600
Internet Connection: (if you don't have an ISO)

Yes, but it's an i3 processor. 2.1Ghz. I wouldn't touch win10 on a 1Ghz
machine!!!.

My wife has a Sony 2.4Ghz i3 and it's as slow a hell. I put an SSD in it
and did a virgin load of 10 and got rid of all the Sony stuff. Between the
two it's usable at least.


I've fixed several Windows 10, i3 laptops (2nd gen IIRC) with standard HDDs
& they ran ok.
I'm surprised yours is 'as slow as hell'. There's got to be something not
quite right especially as you've done a pristine install.
Just out of interest, did you wipe all the partitions?

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On 7/10/19 10:26 AM, wasbit wrote:
"Big Al" wrote in message
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On 7/10/19 6:58 AM, wasbit wrote:
"Jack of Diamonds" wrote in message
...
It had Win 7 Home on it when new:

Acer 7741G 17", i3 at 2.16 Ghz, 4G RAM, ATI Mobiliity Radeon HD
5470up 2234 Hypermemory, 512MB dedicated.


Windows 10 System Requirements
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...specifications

Processor:Â* 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster compatible processor or
System on a Chip (SoC)
RAM:Â* 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit
Hard drive size:Â* 32GB or larger hard disk
Graphics card:Â* Compatible with DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
Display:Â*Â*Â*Â* 800x600
Internet Connection: (if you don't have an ISO)

Yes, but it's an i3 processor.Â* 2.1Ghz.Â* I wouldn't touch win10 on a
1Ghz machine!!!.

My wife has a Sony 2.4Ghz i3 and it's as slow a hell.Â*Â* I put an SSD
in it and did a virgin load of 10 and got rid of all the Sony stuff.
Between the two it's usable at least.


I've fixed severalÂ* Windows 10, i3 laptops (2nd gen IIRC) with standard
HDDs & they ran ok.
I'm surprised yours is 'as slow as hell'. There's got to be something
not quite right especially as you've done a pristine install.
Just out of interest, did you wipe all the partitions?

Okay, "slow as hell" is an objective viewpoint. My laptop is an i7 4Ghz
and M2 SSD. So and i3 on a HDD is obviously slow. And that observation
was before the SSD with 5 years of never reloading it and with Sony
bloatware. And yes I wiped all partitions since I had to reformat the
drive from MBR to GPT before loading Win10.

Al

On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 11:58:39 +0100, "wasbit"
wrote:

"Jack of Diamonds" wrote in message
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It had Win 7 Home on it when new:

Acer 7741G 17", i3 at 2.16 Ghz, 4G RAM, ATI Mobiliity Radeon HD 5470up
2234 Hypermemory, 512MB dedicated.


Windows 10 System Requirements
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...specifications

Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster compatible processor or System on a
Chip (SoC)
RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit
Hard drive size: 32GB or larger hard disk
Graphics card: Compatible with DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
Display: 800x600
Internet Connection: (if you don't have an ISO)



Minimum requirements like those you post above, are accurate, but
*extremely* misleading. Try running Windows 10 (or 7, 8, or 8.1) on
such a machine. Yes, it will run, but so slowly as to be painful if
you do anything more than play solitaire on it.

And leaving aside the issues of speed, recommending that anyone run
any version of Windows on a computer with only a 32GB HD is a terrible
thing to do. Yes, Windows will fit on it, but not very much else.

Even my wife, who does little more than e-mail, solitaire, and an
occasional web search, uses 83GB on her computer.

Microsoft does everyone a disservice by posting only the minimum
requirements like that. On the same web page, they should also post
the minimum *practical* requirements.

On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:46:20 +0200, Jack of Diamonds wrote:

It had Win 7 Home on it when new:

Acer 7741G 17", i3 at 2.16 Ghz, 4G RAM, ATI Mobiliity Radeon HD 5470up
2234 Hypermemory, 512MB dedicated.

I don't know about 'running' - I would think it would more 'crawl'.

Paul wrote:
Jack of Diamonds wrote:
It had Win 7 Home on it when new:

Acer 7741G 17", i3 at 2.16 Ghz, 4G RAM, ATI Mobiliity Radeon HD 5470up
2234 Hypermemory, 512MB dedicated.

I would use that. With an SSD...

Download free media.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/soft...load/windows10

Use your COA license key, and it should select "Home"
from the OSes on that x64 disc.

By using the free media, you won't have to crack open
the cellophane on the OS you bought.

Â*Â* Paul

I downloaded Win 10 Pro and it's on a pen drive waiting. I have a
license with a DVD but I prefer using a pen drive so I downloaded the
ISO and used Linux Mint's Image Writer to burn it on a pen drive.

ray carter wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:46:20 +0200, Jack of Diamonds wrote:

It had Win 7 Home on it when new:

Acer 7741G 17", i3 at 2.16 Ghz, 4G RAM, ATI Mobiliity Radeon HD 5470up
2234 Hypermemory, 512MB dedicated.

I don't know about 'running' - I would think it would more 'crawl'.


With an SSD?

On 10/07/2019 11:46, Jack of Diamonds wrote:
It had Win 7 Home on it when new:

Acer 7741G 17", i3 at 2.16 Ghz, 4G RAM, ATI Mobiliity Radeon HD 5470up
2234 Hypermemory, 512MB dedicated.
You can run Win 10 on that machine but you'll struggle. Try upgrading
the memory to 8GB or if possible 16GB. apart from that your machine is
much more powerful than what some people are using. for example, I have
seen people running Win10 on DELL Optiplex 760 and this machine was just
about running Windows 7. After upgrading the Ram to 8GB all went fine
and that machine is more reliable than the latest Optiplex 7770
https://www.dellemc.com/resources/en-us/asset/data-sheets/products/desktops-all-in-ones/optiplex_7770_all_in_one_spec_sheet.pdf?newtab=tru e
or Dell Vostro.

You can always image your current drive and then install Windows 10 on
it and use it for 30 days to see if it has what you want. Alternatively,
buy a new HD and install Win 10 on it to try it. Your old drive can be
kept safe just in case you want to go back to Windows 7. Windows 7
updates will stop next January around 20th (20th January 2020). Most
companies and Universities have started upgrading their machines to
Windows 10. You are not quite new to Windows 10, are you?

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On 10/07/2019 13:46, Big Al wrote:
My wife and I both have laptops, I use Linux Mint and she uses
Win10. I wish I could get her on Linux but ....

No you can't because she knows that you are a complete idiot but it's
too late to get rid of you.





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The Man in the High Castle wrote:
ray carter wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:46:20 +0200, Jack of Diamonds wrote:

It had Win 7 Home on it when new:

Acer 7741G 17", i3 at 2.16 Ghz, 4G RAM, ATI Mobiliity Radeon HD 5470up
2234 Hypermemory, 512MB dedicated.

I don't know about 'running' - I would think it would more 'crawl'.


With an SSD?

It depends on how many "toys" you fit on it.

My laptop slides from "barely acceptable" to "not acceptable",
when you add a printer package and a webcam package.

That's how sensitive it is with just one CPU core.

The webcam package leaves a service running, even when
the webcam is unplugged.

The SSD improves boot time.

The SSD cannot improve situations where you are CPU bound.

Paul