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tech Q & A l

SOME SLOW PCs CAN’T

BE MADE MUCH FASTER

By Steve Alexander with Windows 10, despite CHANGING TECHNOLOGY
Microsoft warnings about
: About few months “ Because your PC some compatibility issues.
ago, I purchased an The compatibility
QHP Pavilion laptop, concerns are about the
model 17-ar050wm, has no secondary Outlook 2007 mail program
that is clearly the slowest PC and the Access 2007 database
I’ve ever owned or used. I program, neither of which
had a technician look for graphics chip, it was included in your “home
anything that could be and student” version of
turned off or deleted to Office.
make the PC run faster, but A bigger concern is that
it hasn’t helped. Is this a runs slowly when its there have been no Microsoft
problem with the PC that I’ll security updates for Office
have to live with, or is there Home and Student 2007
a remedy? HD screen displays a since 2017. But experts say
Tom M. that is not a huge problem,
provided that you use the
A : It is a problem that lot of graphics.” Windows Defender antivirus
program that’s included in
you will have to live
with, although there
are some workarounds to Windows 10, and make
sure you download all the
make the PC go a bit faster. slowly when its HD screen • Check the list of programs sells for $450 new or $410 Office 2007 updates through
Online forums list many displays a lot of graphics. that automatically start refurbished. October 2017.
similar complaints about this One reviewer of this when the PC does, and turn To head off the obvious
2018 HP laptop model, and laptop noted that “graphics off unnecessary ones (see : I just upgraded question, readers should
they’re all the result of the heavily slow down the tinyurl.com/y52awaqs). to a new PC with note that using Office 2007
same problem: The PC’s processor, sometimes to the QWindows 10, and without security updates
main processor and memory extent that even a simple web Another way to would like to install my copy is far less risky than using
have to shoulder the entire page will not load instantly” compensate for the PC’s of Microsoft Office Windows 7 after its security
computing load for the PC’s (see tinyurl.com/y6qj5vjb). slow speed is to install an Home and Student 2007 on updates cease in 2020.
high-definition screen. That said, there are a few SSD (solid-state drive), the new computer. But I was Antivirus software can protect
Some PCs (typically the workarounds to moderately a computer-chip-based told that the program won’t Office 2007, but antivirus
more expensive ones) solve speed up your PC: substitute for a hard drive work with Windows 10. Is programs will not—repeat,
this problem by including a • Don’t leave multiple web that retrieves data more that true? will not—protect Windows
secondary chip with its own pages open (particularly quickly. But that would cost Claudia S. 7 in 2020. n
memory to help with heavy- those that update $100 plus installation labor,
duty graphics processing. automatically). which may be more than you : It is not true. ©2019 Star Tribune
Because your PC has no • programs at the same time. old computer model that A Your version of (Minn.) Distributed by
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run
multiple want to spend on a year-
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