My old HP laptop has finally bitten the dust and a techie friend is offering to help me build my own PC this summer to replace it. My plan was originally to install Windows 7 on the machine and keep it there until Microsoft released Windows 9 next spring, at which point I’d try it out to see if it would make for a suitable upgrade. The reason I wanted to stick with Windows 7 is that I just don’t want to deal with Windows 8. In this I’m not alone: After support for Windows XP expired earlier this year, Windows 7 adoption grew at a much faster rate than Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 adoption. However, my plans for installing Windows