Bought a Toshiba NB505 with Windows7. In 2011
It began do slow down and crash a lot so I had to get another laptop. I went to BEST BUY and they told me that there are no computers with Windows 7 anymore. There's only Windows 10. I had tried friends' computers with Windows 8, and Windows 10, and I thought it was awful, especially Windows 8. I even read reviews on computer magazines saying that WIndows 8 and WIndows 10 are not as user friendly as Windows 7. At my workplace there are laptops with Windows 10 and it seems that the touch pad is over sensitive and while you are typing text the cursor can out-of-nowhere jump to a completely different area of the page and even worse than merely that, it seems that your wrists resting near the touch pad as you type can mean that all of a sudden certain functions go off and suddenly an entire paragraph you are typing can suddenly get highlighted and then erased as you continue to type and if you don't immediately notice and click "undo" you can lose a lot of text. I found out this is not just with one WIndows 8 or Windows 10 computer. It seems to be a problem with all new laptops. However it seems that Windows 7 is no longer being made. Is this true?
Also I eventually bought a small Lenovo ideapad 100S. The price was affordable enough even with WIndows 10 and I needed to buy it to type letters and such on Word document.
But why do I often get a message when I'm NOT connected to the internet when I actually am?
What's going on with all manufactured computers?
Its windows rot
It is NOT all laptops. It is manufacturers building things cheaply because that is what YOU asked for (you said yourself you bought cheap).
On any proper laptop you can change the sensitivity of the trackpad.
Just because you can't use the devices properly doesn't mean they are no good.
Windows 7 hasn't been made for 3.5 years, since Win 8 was released. It has only recently not been available to buy. Win 8 was (as far as I was concerned) MUCH more user friendly than Win 7 (I had a touch screen). Win 10 is better still.
Not sure what you are surprised about.
Windows 7, while still popular, stopped being a "new" OS about 3 years ago. PC makers usually go with the newest operating systems.
And 10, while not bad, is far better than 8.
Regarding your old Windows 7 Toshiba laptop, does it have a Factory Image partition or Recovery disks? I have 2010 vintage Windows 7 PC that was just getting super slow and error prone. I backed up all my documents, music, photos and videos, and then I did a factory reset back to the way the computer was when it first shipped.
Then I ran it through the Windows 7 updates and then put my documents, music, photos and videos back on the PC. And now it runs much better.
Try that with your Toshiba.