Okay so I bought a new, terrible, god-awful laptop because I had no time to lookup specs beforehand and I was in need of a beastly laptop in a rush. I mean not necessarily video gaming because I know the best way to go is desktops (which I also had looked at but all that was offered were minis and all-in-ones, which I hate). So I briefly looked at specs and the best seeming thing at the particular wally-world (I am well aware this is a terrible place to find any electronics but it was late at night and like I said, rushed) and AMD a10-8700P (they do not carry the icore version) with 12gigs of ram and what had been stated as a 2.2ghz processor (very, very, wrong its 1.8ghz and I've talked to them...) to 3.2ghz boost, and I thought this would suffice, however I was very disappointed after literally one night.
It came with windows 10 and well Microsoft is not going down a path I like, at all. The interface to me is, to put it in nice terms, bogus cow-pie, and I find it extremely more complicated to operate than Win7 and Win8 even. Among all, running OneDrive and other associated tasks tends to take up A LOT OF CPU!!! Like why even? Anyways I put the desktop and features into Hi-Contrast low power mode or whatever it is called and it still takes a lot out of the CPU. Tried closing programs and they either re-open or will not allow me to close them even as an admin. So my last resort is to go to win 7 because its the last good thing I can recall.
As I have not upgraded and windows 10 came on the PC, I know I need a clean install through CD or USB and I luckily have both at hand however, previously doing this many other times on Win8/8.1 PCs I know "downgrading" means literal clean install after swiping the drive and what not, but I want to make sure I'm not missing something. I'm not at all a grandpa when it comes to PC but I don't necessarily know all ins and outs of them at the same time so I figured it would be best to ask for help rather than search in the massive sea of google or bing.
Basically, there is no other way for me to install Win7, that im aware, than from a clean copy in the boot menu, because going and getting all the drives I need is a pain in the tush and I would rather not waste all that time doing that. I know that there is the upgrade option while windows is up, but, as Microsoft likes to make stuff very complicated for users, it will not allow this in newer versions of windows. So must I go to my PC manufacturer every time I want to downgrade to collect the drivers or is there an easier way any of you folks have found that might help?
Just so its clear and you don't view me as a complete idiot I will be going back to my samsung np470r5e as soon as I get a new motherboard in for it because the icore i5 ran faster and can run even some newer- more demanding games at higher levels much faster than some of the low settings on this newer(but poopier) a10-8700p. But even still- desktops, or eGPUs but I know you have to have the right laptop... so desktops. (also its not necessarily video games I'm running but lager processes like video editing software and 3d software like blender for projects and such.)
It came with windows 10 and well Microsoft is not going down a path I like, at all. The interface to me is, to put it in nice terms, bogus cow-pie, and I find it extremely more complicated to operate than Win7 and Win8 even. Among all, running OneDrive and other associated tasks tends to take up A LOT OF CPU!!! Like why even? Anyways I put the desktop and features into Hi-Contrast low power mode or whatever it is called and it still takes a lot out of the CPU. Tried closing programs and they either re-open or will not allow me to close them even as an admin. So my last resort is to go to win 7 because its the last good thing I can recall.
As I have not upgraded and windows 10 came on the PC, I know I need a clean install through CD or USB and I luckily have both at hand however, previously doing this many other times on Win8/8.1 PCs I know "downgrading" means literal clean install after swiping the drive and what not, but I want to make sure I'm not missing something. I'm not at all a grandpa when it comes to PC but I don't necessarily know all ins and outs of them at the same time so I figured it would be best to ask for help rather than search in the massive sea of google or bing.
Basically, there is no other way for me to install Win7, that im aware, than from a clean copy in the boot menu, because going and getting all the drives I need is a pain in the tush and I would rather not waste all that time doing that. I know that there is the upgrade option while windows is up, but, as Microsoft likes to make stuff very complicated for users, it will not allow this in newer versions of windows. So must I go to my PC manufacturer every time I want to downgrade to collect the drivers or is there an easier way any of you folks have found that might help?
Just so its clear and you don't view me as a complete idiot I will be going back to my samsung np470r5e as soon as I get a new motherboard in for it because the icore i5 ran faster and can run even some newer- more demanding games at higher levels much faster than some of the low settings on this newer(but poopier) a10-8700p. But even still- desktops, or eGPUs but I know you have to have the right laptop... so desktops. (also its not necessarily video games I'm running but lager processes like video editing software and 3d software like blender for projects and such.)
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