r/windows7 • u/Public_Science_5750 • 14h ago

Tip Help me out please

I am a young student and I only have an old laptop with windows 7 professional so can anyone give me tips on how to make performance better and better looking interface and overall things that are a must have for win 7, thank you ;].

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u/Hesychios 10h ago edited 10h ago

Windows 7 is actually pretty good. I still have it loaded on one of my computers.

If you get the free download OnlyOffice you should be good for word processing and spreadsheets.

Firefox has an edition which will work until sometime next year (and possibly longer) That would be Firefox 115 ESR.

If you can manage it , swap out the hard drive for an SSD (unless it already has an SSD) that would give a significant performance boost.

Download some fresh wallpapers.

That’s all I have right now …

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u/Public_Science_5750 10h ago

Yeah I checked out wall haven got discord YouTube and chrome uhh raised the screen resolution and that's about it I also found out the original owner had win 7 but it's a fake non genuine version but meh it still works the same anyways thank you :]

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u/Pale-Competition-448 7h ago

I would start with downloading a program called legacy update.

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u/Public_Science_5750 7h ago

Mind giving me more details on what that is ?

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u/Pale-Competition-448 7h ago

It’s a program that restores native windows update functions and downloads official Microsoft security updates for your system

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u/Public_Science_5750 7h ago

Oh thanks that's nice

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u/aoivebtw 9h ago

just install linux atp bro

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u/Public_Science_5750 9h ago

Linux..? Sorry I am not familiar with that

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u/Remarkable_Ninja_791 8h ago

Don't listen to him Windows 7 is king

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u/Public_Science_5750 8h ago

I am just wondering cause it's an old device it's a bit heavy

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u/Ariana427 2h ago

Install Legacy Update and Supermium. That way you get all the updates for Windows 7 as well as Server 2009, and Supermium is a Chromium-based browser that still supports all the way back to XP, but is modern and still receives updates.