To: Chrome based browsers are spyware from Google,
Me: I use Firefox and I connect to the internet through DuckDuckGo, which does not track or keep records of where you go on the internet and I have never had any problems with speed and my PC’s are more than 20 years old and running Windows 7 Ultimate.
Originally the drives which came with these PC’s were 80GB, but I have upgraded them to 600GB, although drives up to 2TB max, can be run on them, the problem then being the more downloaded stuff you have on your hard drive, the slower your PC will go, so it is a great idea to buy a 2TB portable hard drive, strip it down to the SATA computer card with the SATA plugin and switch 2TB drives from one to the other, within seconds when transferring downloaded stuff to 2TB hard drive storage drives, through that SATA card and if you want really small hard drives, buy hard drives to run portable computers, however, not solid state drives, because if they stop working you lose everything, whereas if you use hard drives with a disk in them, they tend to last forever.
Turn off hard drives from the icon with a tick in it in your work bar and you can make the bar disappear, except when you want it, by right clicking your mouse on the bar, on the border line and tick hide and where you want the bar to appear and small icons on your desktop.
My bar is at the bottom of my page and that is where I have it disappear and reappear.
My PC’s run like new and I have no wish or desire to keep up to date with Windows 10 or having to use new software for it, provided by Microsoft as .apps, when I have all of the software programs I could ever want in x86 and x64.
My PC’s are all x64 and run x64 Windows 7 and if you want a full working, registered copy of Windows 7 updated to 2021, ask here and I will provide a link………..
If you can remove the hard drive from your PC without too much fuss, then you can put in a new hard drive and use a startup hard disk or a thumbdrive, to boot a copy of windows 7 without having to delete Windows 10, by installing Linux and totally removing Windows 10, when asked and then install Windows 7 over Linux, same procedure, to get a working copy of Windows 7 on a Windows 10 drive, because otherwise, Windows 10 won’t let you install and earlier OS, been there, done that with a Protege hard drive with Windows 10 on it.
To get the Win 7 OS to work, you need to download the latest SAM Drivers v20.4 I think and use that to install essential drivers to get your Win 7 OS working, then use a driver update program to install all new drivers and that’s that.
I call it fun, you might call it a chore!!
I’m here if you get stuck along the way and want some help in the process or procedure.