I recently bought this laptop:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA8S15UZ3741&cm_re=n857hk19SIA8S15UZ3741ProductI tried to downgrade to Windows 7 Pro by booting to a Windows 7 Pro disc inside of an external drive connected to the laptop.
The Windows 7 installation stalls with a red bar on top.
So I called Eluktronics Contact Phone Number. "Will" told me to disable UEFI boot from the BIOS. So I did just that.
Afterwards, I get a BSoD saying that the BIOS is not ACPI compliant. "Will" tells me that this means that "Windows 7 is not an option with this computer."
I need to use Windows 7 for "reasons". My reasons being:
Privacy. From what articles I've read online, Windows 10 is basically adware sending out user information to Microsoft servers and such. Yeah, I know I can dodge this by:
A.) Never going online.
B.) Installing Linux, but I don't have the time to learn a new OS (but I really should someday, srsly).
How would I go about preventing this breach of privacy from happening within Windows 10 (aside from never going online)?
Another reason I want to stick with Windows 7 is resource consumption.
A few years back I used Windows XP on a laptop, and it ran just fine. Then I used Windows Vista on that same laptop, and it slowed down to a crawl. Even my current Windows 7 computer from 2014 (that I am typing this message on) has slow speed issues compared to my Windows XP computer from 2007.
What settings should I adjust to make Windows 10 less ravenous?
Otherwise, I pretty much have a thousand dollar brick on a table that I'm not sure if I should just send back for a refund.