Disappointed I Can't Install Windows 10 On Older Laptop

[Davy49]

Hi Everyone,​

I'm typing this on my Acer Aspire 5100-3357 laptop that originally came with windows vista home premium 32-bit installed on it. I recently purchased a authentic/genuine dvd disc that has windows 7 home premium edition w/sp1 on it, it's the 32-bit edition. It's already been 'legally' activated via microsoft. I've already tried once to install windows 10 home on this laptop via the 'upgrade' method, it finally finished but it took a VERY LONG time. It never did function correctly..it ran as slow as cold molasses. To make matters even worse...I was having so many issue's that I got frustrated and performed a reset this pc. Of course when I did so, I couldn't easily go back to windows 7. So I had to reinstall windows 7, as I'm not one to give up easy..I tried a second time using a different method. I created a new partition on my hard drive, I already had a windows 10 ISO image dvd, so when I booted my laptop, of course I chose to boot off the dvd, I was asked where I wanted to install windows 10..of course I installed to the new partition. The install process when much smoother than the 'upgrade' method..but windows 10 still seemed to run slow, should I just forget about installing windows 10 on this laptop ? I'm enclosing my computer spec's., so hopefully some other user's can share their opinion's. By the way, windows 7 runs GREAT !!

David

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601​

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer Acer​

System Model Aspire 5100​

System Type X86-based PC Processor AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36, 2000 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 1 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date Acer V3.13, 8/22/2008 SMBIOS Version 2.4 Windows Directory C:\Windows System Directory C:\Windows\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB Total Physical Memory 1.75 GB Available Physical Memory 489 MB Total Virtual Memory 3.50 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.41 GB Page File Space 1.75 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys​

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