From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, May 25, 2020 at 8:55:15 AM UTC-5, sandydo...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Hello Dick,   
   >     This is off topic but I had to get a new hard drive for my laptop.  I   
   also got more memory and windows 10.  Since you work on fixing computers(at   
   least you use to) you would appreciate the news.    
   >                             Sandy$   
      
   Well, it's certainly interesting :)  I'm wondering, did you simply replace the   
   hard drive and thus got Windows 10 on that drive?  Just a rule of thumb I like   
   to use:  I try to keep the Operating System *matched* with the basic hardware   
   of the system.     
   For instance, I would not try to load Windows XP on a system that was built   
   for Windows 95.  It *may* be able to support it, but the motherboard and   
   memory would typically be too weak to support that strong of an operating   
   system.  Likewise, I would    
   never put Windows 95 on a system that was designed for XP, because the 95   
   operating system (and drivers designed for it) would never be able to make   
   that system's hardware properly functional.  There is a tiny bit of room for   
   '95 and '98 to work together,   
    as well as '98 and XP to work together.  In fact, somewhere around 80% of ALL   
   the systems that were sold during the Windows VISTA era were actually loaded   
   with XP (because Vista SUCKED!) and there is also some minor crossover between   
   Windows ME (another    
   sucky version) and Windows 2000.  As far as I know, Windows systems from 7 up   
   through 11 are *relatively* interchangeable, but that's kind of a guess.  I   
   hear 8 and 10 are basically decent. √  Getting more memory *should* help   
   your system appear to run    
   faster :)  One other tip:  if your laptop's keyboard should start to get a   
   bit, shall we say, quirky, just stick the unit on a kind of base support (that   
   lifts it up to eye level) and add a new, external (plug-in / USB) keyboard and   
   all will work swell :)   
      
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