I own an HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC (LT-5: S/N 5CH14206FM) & two HP Envy m7-n109dx Notebook PC's (LT-6: S/N CND5486SPZ, & LT-7: S/N CND5440L5T). Both LT-6 & LT-7 came with Windows 10 installed as the OS. Initial use of these PC's impressed me as to how slow they were to startup & shutdown, & also how much that I disliked Windows 10. Subsequently, I had Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit installed as the OS on LT-6 with the goal of speeding up the PC. It did so when compared to LT-7 (Windows 10), but not so when compared to LT-5, which also has Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit as the OS.
Comparitive startup & shutdown times for my notebook PC's;
LT-5 (Windows 7): 42 & 14 seconds
LT-6 (Windows 7): 50 & 22 seconds
LT-7 (Windows 10): 167 & 29 seconds
I thought when I bought the HP Envy Notebook PC's with the "6th Generation Intel i7 CPU" that I would be getting much faster PC's than my HP Pavilion Notebook PC with a "2nd or 3rd Generation Intel i7 CPU". Not so !
I also found a significant difference in internet access times between the LT-6 (Windows 7) & LT-7 (Windows 10) Envy PC's. On LT-6 it took 5 seconds to access my personal banking login website from the Favorites listing in Windows Internet Explorer. On LT-7 it took 24 seconds to access the website. Similar findings are reported on the "HP Support Forum" website: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-System-and-Recovery/hp-envy-start-up-slow/td-p/5406319
Maybe there is a lot of "stuff" (i.e. capabilities) on the Envy PC's, that I don't necessarily want or need that sap their "speed", which I do want. Are there capabilites that the Envy PC has (i.e. such as enhanced music/game features) that I could reduce/delete to increase the speed of the PC's ?
Sam_2