Microsoft Office/LibreOffice

[Mouse]

Ok, so the new laptop is HORRIFIC!! It's so slow. I bought it to replace my old laptop because it keeps freezing up and going slow but my god, it's freaking amazing compared to this Lenovo thing!!

HELP!

Windows 10 is all kinds of vile. I use it at work and hate it there too. Why is everything so geared towards people who use tablets and the like? GAH! The screen is really dull, so I thought I'd go to the settings to try to brighten it up, but it takes several seconds for the start menu to come up and when it does, I can't actually type anything into the search bar!

Any ideas on how to speed this thing up and make it actually usable? Please?

 

[Nick B]

Remove all the lenovo bloatware that you possibly can. Other than that... I'm afraid I'm really not a fan of Lenovo stuff. On the budget end of laptops (because sadly under 500 quid is budget in laptops, which is insane as you can have a very, very good desktop for that price) Acer are far better.
Its basically all down to processor speed and ram. My 300 quid acer had a core i3 processor and 4 gig of ram and its pretty quick. It is only 11 inch screen though.

I recently got a sub 300 quid 15 inch acer for the guy I care for, that's a dual core amd cpu with 4gb ram and it's OK. Not as fast as mine but OK.

Sorry I can't be any help speeding it up, apart from suggesting you remove all the rubbish software you will never need.

 

[Mouse]

Yep, currently removing as much as I can. Ta!

 

[mosaix]

What version do you have? Do you get an error message?

According to Microsoft, Office 2007 and later should install on Windows 10. I know people have had no problems installing older versions. Here's someone who installed Windows 95: Microsoft Teases Me ... and a Few Minor Changes in Windows 10 - Thurrott.com

Okay, I got round to trying this. The version I have is Office 2000.

I tried to re-install it again. Several messages relating to .dll register errors. Previously I had abandoned the installation at this stage. This time is used the 'ignore' option and the installation completed.

Both Word and Excel seem to run without problem. I'll try them both in depth over the next few days and keep my eyes for any spurious errors.

Thanks, Alex.