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Originally Posted by aniloscash
I had windows 7 on my lap top and I really liked it when it expired I put xp back on there and I have been having headaches every sense. Firefox locks up. Its a lot slower. So my guess is windows 7 uses less resources. but thats just a theory I'll have to research it some and let you know. All I do know is I like windows 7.
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Windows 7 definitely does not use less resources than XP. While it may be better than Vista, it is definitely still no XP in the performance department.
I tried windows 7 on my main desktop, it's a few years old and I play online games with it. After tweaking down some services and other stuff, I could not get the memory overhead of win7 below about 360ishMB. Plus, each game that I played had a noticeable choppy moment, every minute or so. So, I reinstalled XP with a slimmed down nLite install, cutting out some services and applying a couple other tweaks. This XP install only uses 140ishMB, and no more skipping in games. Plus, I noticed that files copied to my usb flash drives a lot quicker.