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Hi, I have a HP Pavilion dv9288ea Laptop that originally had Vista installed on it. I just done a clean install of Windows 7 32bit. Now I'm trying to install all the drivers and updates but not I'm not sure what drivers or where! I went on the Hp site and used the auto check tool.It finds my...

ahh ok well feels like 10 years

Thanks for the advice and thanks for your time :)

My dad said that laptop cost him £1200 when he bought it, but that must have been 10+ years ago. So it was probably a good machine back then but...well things age new stuff comes out all the time so its kind of hard to keep up with it all. I will ask him if he wants to upgrade with ssd as I...

I'd say £200 -£350 should get something decent right?

Yes

I know this laptop is quite old now and and low spec compared to my gaming rig but I would like to think its still ok for light use like internet browsing. It just feels sluggish and slow.

svchost.exe seems to be the culprit! It's using like 700,456k in memory usage in Task Manager

Thanks for the reply So I take it I should not be installing a 64 bit on this system but rather a 32bit version? As the 64 bit is using so much of the ram and cpu usage! RAM usage at 90% CPU usage at 50% at idle with 64 bit win 7!

Hi, my dad gave me an old Toshiba hp compaq dv9288ea,running Windows Vista 32bit with 2x1 gb ddr2 It was in a bit of a mess so I reinstalled Windows 7 64 bit and the drivers, but as I am novice I have now realised that 2gb of ram is not sufficient for 64bit Windows 7. Is it possible to...