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Which Windows 10 version to install on Intel Core2Duo E7400 2.8Ghz with 4GB RAM

I searched but I did not find a satisfactory answer to my specific query thus putting it here. I have an old PC Intel Core2Duo E7400 2.8GHz with 4GB RAM running a Windows 7 32bit. I want to upgrade it ...
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Installed new DDR3 RAM DIMM, BIOS shows the RAM, but Windows is stuck at the boot logo

After installing the new RAM, BIOS registered 4096MB of RAM, but when trying to boot Windows, the Windows logo appears, then the PC reboot as soon as the loading animation starts, sometimes with a ...
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Want to upgrade Intel core 2 duo CPU E7400 @2.8GHz with Windows7

Looking to upgrade my PC with below configuration Processor: Intel core 2 duo CPU E7400 @2.8GHz with Windows7 RAM : 2 GB System type : 32 bit OS Can I upgrade the RAM to 8 GB or more? Anything with ...
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HP Laptop Memory upgrade

I'm planning on upgrading memory on my i5 HP Pavilion dv6 laptop since it seems to be the cheapest way to increase its speed. Right now I have 4GB with 70+% of memory used with Chrome(10 websites open)...
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Upgrading my E2-3200 Desktop with RAM and SSD

Overnight (literally), I "lost" home use of a pair of i5 / 8GB / Win 8.1 Laptops (Lenovo and Asus) I used for home development. I use Visual Studio 2013 and Sql Server. Besides that I surf the web. I'...
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Windows fails to start after RAM upgrade

I have a alienware m11x r2 and I recently bought some new RAM for it. However after installing it, when windows boots up a "Windows fails to start" page appears. I am then giving the option to repair ...
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With 3GBs of RAM and single core processor, what would you upgrade first? [closed]

Please help! which one is better to upgrade if i can only do one at this certain time.
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Laptop is incredibly slow after RAM upgrade

I just upgraded my Windows 7 64 bit laptop to 8 GB of RAM (2x4GB). After installing the RAM it runs outrageously slow. It takes roughly 20 minutes to boot up and is completely unusable after it ...
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How can I get Aero to work with a lower AGP Aperture Size?

I have HP motherboard with ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB AGP and 1GB of RAM. This month I started to upgrade my PC. I wanted to disable Floppy drive. I went to BIOS and found that my AGP aperture size was 64 ...
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Windows 7 giving RAM to installed graphics-card

Just installed Windows 7 Ultimate. Sorry but I haven't installed any program that could tell my specs, but I remember theses: Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB GDDR2 AGP with support of DirectX ...
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Firefox 4, 5 and 6 are slow and freezing, consuming 400MB RAM

I'm on Windows 7. Since I upgraded to Firefox 4, I noticed that it became extremely slow. I even tried to upgrade to 6 and 5 and still it's slow. Sometimes it consumes 400 MB of RAM! What can I do? ...
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Laptop RAM upgrade: max out more than recommended?

I have a Dell Studio 1735...currently with 3GB DDR2 RAM...Max RAM is 4GB. Currently have Windows 7 32-bit installed, want to upgrade to 64-bit... Everything on this page is compatible with this ...
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Upgrade RAM or CPU [closed]

I have an IBM X31 with 1GB of RAM and a 1.4GHz proccessor running Windows 7 Home premium. Which would be more worthwhile to upgrade, the RAM to 2GB or the processor to a max of maybe 2GHz? Thanx in ...
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Windows 7 x64 not recognizing ram

I have a Dell Studio XPS 435mt, it originally came with 4gb of ram. I just added 4 more gb of ram (2 x2gb sticks). However the system is only showing that I have 6gb of ram... (well, 5.9 to be exact)...
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