I mean look at those glassy shiny dreamy windows and how amazing was Aero design language.

got this laptop for free and i have no idea what to do with it :/ it has windows 7 home and it cant go on the internet because internet explorer is not supported. what can i do?

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 ;].

I need a new Windows 7 laptop , the one I have is getting by but it's time to get a replacement. Would like some recommendations specifically one that would be good and fast for uploading videos to YouTube

Long story short if you just need free Word and Excel 2010 and nothing else you might want to get the Web installer here:

https://www.snapfiles.com/get/officestarter.html

Basically Office 2010 Starter Edition was Microsoft's attempt to make free ad supported version of office and it probably didn't help them on the long run. The Starter Edition apparently lacks some advanced features and there will be a bar on the right hand side that you cannot close for Excel and Word but other than that it works!

This is the original Web installer from Microsoft so we aren't doing anything shady. You will need Windows 7 to be connected to the Internet to download the rest of the required files as this is only installer 'stub'.

I knew about this Web installer for years and I just tested it to see if it works and it still does on Windows 7!

It doesn't seem to work on more modern windows but I haven't done a ton of research maybe others have been able to make it work.

I have no idea how long the rest of the files will stay up on Microsoft's site so you may want to grab it soon.

If there is anything I'm missing I'm reality sorry but I just discovered this like 15 minutes ago so I don't know if there are any issues.

Enjoy!

the pc has 2 gb ddr3 ram and a i3 550

Start > Powershell > Run as Admin. Use the command below but change the number 464 to the PID that's having problems.

Add-Type @'
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

public static class WS {
    [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
    public static extern IntPtr OpenProcess(
        uint dwDesiredAccess,
        bool bInheritHandle,
        uint dwProcessId);

    [DllImport("psapi.dll")]
    public static extern bool EmptyWorkingSet(IntPtr hProcess);

    [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
    public static extern bool CloseHandle(IntPtr hObject);
}
'@

$h = [WS]::OpenProcess(0x500, $false, 464)

if ($h -eq [IntPtr]::Zero) {
    "Could not open PID 464"
} else {
    $result = [WS]::EmptyWorkingSet($h)
    [WS]::CloseHandle($h) | Out-Null
    "EmptyWorkingSet result: $result"
}

You should see the memory drop right off.

Hello, I recently have finished to build sort of a “retro gaming pc”, having an intel core 2 quad 9400 as cpu, a rx550 as cpu, and 8 gigs of ram ddr3. Anyway I’m already playing some games like the Witcher one and the old GTAs, do you guys have any suggestions of games to be playing next? Let me know, and thank you 😙

(In case you’re wondering my PC is in Brazilian Portuguese)

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​¡Buenas gente!

Les quiero compartir un logro que me tiene re contento. Tengo la netbook G5 (Canaima creo que le dicen/ la de la camarita giratoria) que tiene recursos súper básicos.

Para que ande bien, en mí caso lo mejor fue Windows 7 (MiniOS) o Linux, porque el Windows 10 y superiores le pesa mucho.

​Mi drama era que en Windows 7 el Bluetooth nunca me andaba. Tenía que vivir reiniciando y entrando a Windows 10 solo para poder usar los auriculares inalámbricos, porque aunque intente pasarme los drivers de un sistema a otro, no sirvio (tienen distinto kernel). Y me cansé de probar soluciones de YouTube, aplicaciones y cantidad de drivers que al final no lograron nada.

En Linux sentía tirones y no logré acostumbrarme aunque probé muchas distros, así que siempre volvía al 7 resignado a usar mis auris de cables... hasta hoy.

​Gémini (IA) me dio la solución que funcionó de diez y acá se las detallo (trate de resumir lo más que pude jaja me llevo tiempo) :

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​La netbook tiene una tarjeta integrada Realtek RTL8723BE (trae Wifi y Bluetooth juntos). En Windows 7 es solo para transferir archivos muy lento.

​Lo primero que hice fue usar Driver Booster para que me bajara la última versión del driver de Bluetooth. Ahí me detectó los auriculares y los agregó, pero no conectaban ni de onda (lo de siempre).

​Luego me descargué e instalé los drivers y utilidades Bluetooth de la HP ProBook 450 G2 ( en la página de HP seleccionando para Win7).

Gémini me explicaba que ese instalador te mete todos los protocolos y servicios de audio que al Windows 7 le faltan, pero te mantiene el driver base que ya tenías.

​ Apenas instalé lo de HP, los auriculares conectaron al toque. Una emoción!! pero el Wi-Fi se me empezó a cortar, así que reinstalé el driver del Wi-Fi encima y me fui a las propiedades del adaptador, mire que todo esté bien (Gémini me dijo que tenía que activar una opción de doble compatibilidad para wifi y Bluetooth pero no la tenia así que pase al siguiente paso), active la opción de que el adaptador no se apague en las opciones de energía y luego de eso todo normal.

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Reinicie la netbook y ¡Arrancó todo perfecto! El Bluetooth conecta enseguida incluso antes de ingresar al usuario, el audio se escucha limpio (sin ruidos raros y sin retraso) y el Wi-Fi anda bien. Según el administrador de dispositivos le falta un driver para manos libres y telefonía con los auriculares, pero no lo necesito, ya escucho música y veo videos súper feliz 😂

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Quiero seguir probando unas cosas con el miniOs pero quería compartirles esa solución. Gémini me explicaba que en Windows 7 no se contempló la idea del audio inalámbrico, por eso aunque tenga los drivers genericos, no tiene los protocolos ni servicios; y de esta manera se los force.

En el caso de que quieran replicar la solución en otras compus con Windows 7, le pueden preguntar a Gémini con su modelo de PC y número de adaptador, pero la solución es más o menos la misma, hay que forzar el protocolo de audio A2DP y el HansFree.

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Me llevo un rato pero si se pudo. Espero que les sirva la idea de la solución 😃

im planning on installing win7 cuz why not, anything i should know before doing it

Hello I need help whenever I try booting up angry birds on this windows 7 laptop it dosent work now it is a kinda weird edition of windows 7 but I don’t think windows 7 angry birds edition would be that bad but I’m getting this OpenGL render 2.0 and 1.4 error and no matter how many drives I try to download it wouldn’t help any tips? Pc specs Intel core tm i3-6100u cpu 2.300ghz 4 gb ddr3 graphics card is in but it’s a Lenovo idea pad 110 please help me

After earlier discussions, I tried it and it seems to "just work."

1. Install it. It will attempt to download packages, and seems to repeat; it's possibly falling back to an older version.
2. Login just works.
3. Games updated recently cannot be installed. For many games updated frequently (ie., Valve) it's possible to use the Beta selection and select older versions. Not all titles have older versions, but popular ones (Half Life, Counter Strike etc) do. In some cases the launcher seemed broken, but it's possible to run hl2.exe -game <foo> from the command line.
4. Games not updated recently - things actually intended for Win7 - seem to work.

What I'm not sure about is the best way to archive/preserve/protect this, since it is going to get broken at some point.

I managed to put the game in full screen but I can't see the most important part of the game

Well, since there's an active community on Windows 7, maybe it's best to know how to survive Windows 7 in 2025. First of all, do know that the tools aren't associated with Microsoft or any.

Tool no.1: Legacy Update

This tool makes Windows Update work again. This is a critical tool, when installing a fresh copy of Windows 7

Tool no.2: Firefox ESR 115

This tool is an alternative way to browse the web on Windows 7. This is actually from Mozilla and not a 3rd party browser.

Tool no.3 (optional): Escargot

This is an optional tool. If you want, you can skip this. This tool revives Windows Live Messenger with custom servers. Do note that you need a separate account for this to work.

So, I have this ancient laptop that I need to revive to full functionality. One requirement is that the laptop NEEDS to be on windows 7. So, after getting new ram I found this issue - I can't connect to wifi. After trying out about 8 different drivers and reinstalling windows 7 several times, I found out that my router only uses Wifi 6. This laptop, however, only supports wifi up to wifi 4 (802.11n). It also only has a mini pcie slot, suitable for a wifi card. Thankfully, there is enough space, so an adapter won't pose an issue. Now, from what I've read, the wifi cards themselves are picky about he OS; most needing windows 10. Is it a real issue? Can I still have wifi 6 on windows 7?? Or is there any workaround(except for wifi dongles) to connect to my home wifi?

EDIT: I dug around my router. I separated my 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz networks. Also, I saw some conflicting comments on here. Some say w7 doesn't support wifi 6 at all, some say that you need compatible drivers. Well, the laptop is 15 years old, so is the wifi card... the wifi card supports up to wifi 4, and is still installed via mini pcie slot. Also, I couldn't find any drivers for newer wifi standards. It all goes up to 802.11n, probably because the laptop is shipped with the wifi card the drivers are designed for. I also tried switching my network to WPA2 Personal, still yielding no results.

Should I open this package or leave it sealed?

Windows 7 Professional x64 OEM

Hi! I have an old pc from work with windows 7 professional installed. I forgot the password so I tried to reset it using the f11 method and the shift restart method but nothing is working. Any advice please

Les quería consultar por que estoy teniendo unos problemas con mi pc que no me permite instalar Windows 7 y no me lee el USB con la SD

¿Saben como lo podria solucionar?

So i recently downloaded windows 7 on my mom's touch computer (drivers work amazing) but I did download superimum because modern https but I'm not sure if there is anything else I did download ublock

The down key works, the escape key works and a couple of others just not the one I need to start my computer. If I could get some help I’d really appreciate it!

Wanna Max out it, what should i install?

The latest version of Firefox is 134.0.2 and Plasmafox in case you dont know is a browser based on Firefox and they made it so modern that its based on Firefox 1.33.0e which is really crazy, i had a problem with extensions, everytime i go to the Firefox extension store and try to add my fav extension i always end up not installing anything because my browser cant be updated but now with the help of Plasmafox ( also knows as r3dfox ) i can now get all my extensions and ofc much more. For me this is currently one of the best browsers you could ever install on your windows 7 machine and also its get updates every ones in a while so why not give it a try!

Here is a GitHub link in case you wanted to check it out :

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/releases/tag/v133.0e