Clueless newbie

[Rbh2o]

Hey everyone just bought a home built multi arcade. Person I bought it from apparently hasent used it in a while. The game sometimes freezes , and sometimes I get a white screen. I noticed it’s running on windows 7 plus. 
How can i install windows 11?

will this take care some of the glitches? 
is there any updates or replacement for hyperspin?

I feel like this multicade needs serious updating and don’t know where to start.

Please help.

Thank you.

[Andyman]

Personally, I recommend leaving it on Windows 7. It's lean, mean, and works extremely well with HyperSpin. I wouldn't connect the PC to the web, though, just to be safe.

What the machine probably does need is a good dust-out, hardware testing and software cleaning, starting with the hardware-testing app of your choice (there's a nice assortment in Hiren's Boot CD), especially checking the hard drive for bad sectors. After the hardware tests check out, I'd run a hard drive defragmenting app (like Disk Defragmenter or Defraggler) and then probably CCleaner to tidy up the registry and other performance-robbing areas.

If after all that, it's still not working as well as you'd like, you can start disabling unnecessary parts of Windows, such as anti-virus (you don't need that if the machine won't be on the web).

One last thing I highly recommend that everybody do with their cabinets - back them up to a spare USB drive. I use Acronis TrueImage on a bootable USB stick to clone the whole hard drive in my cabinets. If I mess something up beyond repair or the hard drive in my cabinet fails, I have that backup to restore from in minutes.

[Rbh2o]

1 hour ago, Andyman said:

Personally, I recommend leaving it on Windows 7. It's lean, mean, and works extremely well with HyperSpin. I wouldn't connect the PC to the web, though, just to be safe.

What the machine probably does need is a good dust-out, hardware testing and software cleaning, starting with the hardware-testing app of your choice (there's a nice assortment in Hiren's Boot CD), especially checking the hard drive for bad sectors. After the hardware tests check out, I'd run a hard drive defragmenting app (like Disk Defragmenter or Defraggler) and then probably CCleaner to tidy up the registry and other performance-robbing areas.

If after all that, it's still not working as well as you'd like, you can start disabling unnecessary parts of Windows, such as anti-virus (you don't need that if the machine won't be on the web).

One last thing I highly recommend that everybody do with their cabinets - back them up to a spare USB drive. I use Acronis TrueImage on a bootable USB stick to clone the whole hard drive in my cabinets. If I mess something up beyond repair or the hard drive in my cabinet fails, I have that backup to restore from in minutes.

Thank you for the reply!!

im going to get working on all of that and will let you know how I make out!