Posted by RanAS

@Nadia Hey, mind sharing what desktop environment and icon set / theme you are using? I've wanted to make my KDE installation look better for a while now but I just can't seem to find the right things for it.

Posted by Moline

I decided to downgrade Windows 10 to Windows 7. This was on an HP laptop where 10 was running really slow lately. This laptop was bought in 2015 with Windows 10 on it. It was a bit of a pain to get the Windows 7 media to work on USB 3.0 ports, but I got it working. Funny thing is it kept telling me I didn't have a required CD/DVD driver. Funny, as I wasn't using that, I was using USB, and if I was using the CD/DVD drive to install ir and this said driver was missing, how were you able to load the installation media? It even said I could safely remove the installation media if I had the driver on a separate CD. I did have a CD labeled Windows 7 64 Bit, but it was just recovery media that I thought was an actual 7 installation.

I installed Windows 7 on Monday, and am still updating it two days later. Took four hours for the 165 main updates. Now it's taking 5+ hours to install 41 updates, most of which are various display languages, which it says can take a while on some computers. Bit of a pain to find drivers as the HP drivers for my computer are mostly 10 only, though a few worked under it (such as sound). Once I got wireless internet working, I was then able to have Windows search for the rest (such as Intel graphics), though it couldn't find an Ethernet driver, so I had to search for that manually and plug in the Ethernet cable cord to install it.

In all, it runs faster than 10, which I don't think was at fault, but rather the OEM software provided by HP themselves, which I removed when installing 7. This laptop also says the battery is at 0% and not charging, and the internet likes to be weak, and at times, go out altogether, so I'm gonna have to replace those genuine HP parts with replacement genuine HP parts come Christmas (the network adapter is on back-order anyways when I view its product description). Hopefully those, along with 7 gives this laptop some new life.

In addition to this, I have four computers that run 10 (one of those being a laptop I use for school), a laptop that has two hard drives (I can only have one in at any given time), a 500 GB, and 80 GB HDD. The 500 has a tri-boot of Vista, 7, and 8.1, while the 80 GB one has Windows 8 build 8056 (this can be described as Windows 7 meets Windows 8).

Sorry for the lengthy post, but thought I'd give some insight on the above picture. Also, Windows is only on Update 18 out of 41 as I submit this. it's installing the Korean display language atm.

EDIT: Stopped the updates. Going to uninstall the language packs installed so far and forgo the others. The ones I currently have have eaten up almost 5 GB of hdd space.