Just fixed a laptop with the same APU The GPU is good but the CPU perforance is abysmal. I added a 120GB SSD and it was slow even on Windows 10 LTSB 2015! Windows 7 only worked fast I used Gen2 Windows 7 ISO with March updates. Edge Chromium worked fast but the laptop stuggled on heavy websites still. Puppy Linux is too low end/complicated for a computer novice so your best option if you wanna go the Linux route is Linux Mint Xfce or Mate
@BAU Can you please remove the Volume:BA key? Since they are like MAK (minus the online activation part), we decided not to endorse them, which is why I mentioned KMS activation.
POSReady 7 has still smaller amount of unnecessary stuff compared to regular 7. ISO is large because it has CAB files for additional features.
I came around a website with some Windows Lite 32/64bit version and other stuff, which may also is useful for you?! I'll not post the link, just google for Computer Worms Team and you'll be there. Don't bother about that name Computer Worms Team, what I'd download from them, ALL was very clean! For myself, I used one of those Windows 7 Aero Blue Lite Edition 2016 to install on a very old MSATA 16GB SSD, for to install an old SIM-Card Reader app to read very old SIM-Cards for old Phone Numbers and SMS's, which need to run normally on XP and max to Windows 7! Works just fine. Maybe there you find something for your use?!
Thank you brother for your efforts, you and @BAU really helped me a lot I have installed official windows 7 home premium 64 bit in it and with 8gb ram, mentioned below are my findings 1. Using edge and google meet together is taking cpu load to 100% 2. Not used firefox until now, as I have seen in other system both firefox and chrome uses almost same ram with same opened tabs 3. Working decently until now, but still needed a solution to stop cpu reaching 100% as it is making pc horrible
If you like to have better results regarding the use of CPU and RAM Power, you will need to use a 'Custom' Made OS instead of a fully MS OS! That applies to all MS OSes! You could use as I did, ReviOS 64bit of Windows 10 Pro 20H2, or that also mentioned Windows 7 AZero Blue Lite Edition 2016, which is also in 64bit! Both of them using less CFPU power than real MS OS! Use as few MS Windows Aplications as possible, use alternatives if available! MS Apps are simply 'hungry' for power and resources! As I test systems, I always have a few different HDDs available to test the different OSes and to compare them. For that work, I keep some old HDDs of the same brand, specs, and sizes. That installation is quite fast done! If I test Laptops and/or Netbooks, and if that machines having a CD/DVD ROM Drive, I use also an HDD Caddy instead of the CD/DVD and insert a HDD with on other OS into that Caddy, use the BIOS Boot Manager to choose which one should start, the Main or the Second! Instead of that, you could also install a VM System on your machine, for any used OS one extra VM! A piece of Cake! Only your main HDD needs to be big enough to hold all different VM-OSes! I do not like to use VMs, because they didn't show the real use of Power and Resources! May that all give you some ideas you did not have thought about before!
