Good morning.

There is more to it than just the volume of records.  Amount of memory, amount of FREE memory, processor and speed, and what other programs running in the background can all make a huge difference.

One ”FREE” thing you can do to speed it up is this. Open your task manager and see what-all you have running.  Look to see what processes might be monopolizing your processor cycles, or reserving your memory.  Turn off those things you don’t need.

Look at my QRZ profile-photo of the operating desk.  That is an older Win-7 (64 bit) I got from an SK sale.  It isn’t anything special.  The only thing I did was double the memory and clean out all the programs it wouldn’t need.  All I use it for is logging and digital work.  Sure, a nice new Win-10 box would be nicer.  But this works, and I see no need to spend $$$$ for a replacement.

If I have to upgrade it from Win-7 to Win-10, it may suffer and need to be replaced once Win-7 is no longer supported.  We’ll see.