My main computer is a 3½ year old Dell laptop (2.5Ghz C2D, 4GB RAM) and Windows 8 boots and runs a little smoother than Windows 7 does. Not enough for me to sti

My main computer is a 3½ year old Dell laptop (2.5Ghz C2D, 4GB RAM) and Windows 8 boots and runs a little smoother than Windows 7 does. Not enough for me to stick with 8 though, I am quite happy to keep it restricted to a virtual machine.