windows 7

If i have a Windows 7 computer that is happily running with its own installed drive and the Key activated and i swap out another C drive from a different PC into it with the same OS type, will nothing happen OR will it only ask for "click" to activate or fully lock up and tell me to call MS as...

This is a continuation of https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/upgrading-to-windows-10-folder-structure-changes-documents-and-my-documents.3839116/#post-23221986 . I do not want to necro my old thread since i want to ask more question about this. Can you separate Windows Libraries and...

Hi, I'm trying to fix an HP Pavilion dv6-1350em laptop with an Intel Pentium CPU and a dedicated ATI Radeon GPU. For that I need a new motherboard, but I can't seem to find any online, not even the part number. Only when I asked ChatGPT it gave me a part number for it, 570509-001, which is...

Where do you find a Windows 7 SP1 64-bit All Updates 2020 AIO with in-place upgrade support ISO

Hello! I'm currently building a retro PC that will have 2 x SSDs, one with XP and the other with Windows 7. I'd like to make sure that the XP SSD is alligned properly. I know very little about this other than a few sites have recommend using windows 7 to partition because it does 2048 byte...

So I'm going to have to split this into a few different questions. My Windows 7 computer I never had issues before it was taken apart 2 1/2 years ago before I moved & it started crashing upto 4 times a day a few months after it was put together in Mexico. I didn't start or use it right after...

Hi all. [Sorry; I have done a bit of searching, but it seems to be a waste of time.] The machine in question is not booted at the moment, as one of the HDDs is clicking [I am assuming it is that]… so I am going from memory here. I have a Gigabyte Z68XP running Windows 7. I have (from...

Good morning all, I have a PC which I did a clean install of 7 on one hhd, and then I installed 10 on the SSD. When I select windows 7 instead of 10 from the windows boot section, windows 7 no longer has USB functionality. I’ve tried disabling legacy USB, and reinstalling drivers. I get nothing...

I have an old Asus N55S laptop I bought back in 2012 with Win 7 (home premium). Haven't used it in years because the network stopped working, both wired and wireless. I recently picked up a USB wifi adapter to try and use the laptop but ended up with the same issue. It'll say I've connected to...

System drive: Goodram 240GB CL100 Storage: old SATA 3 Hitachi 4TB and Toshiba 2TB GPU: Palit GTX970 4GB CPU: i3 12100f Mobo: (returning) MSI B760M-P DDR5RAM: (returning) Kingston Fury Beast 2x8GB Screen: an old Samsung 32" HD tv PSU: BanditPower HX460 550W After switching to CSM Legacy + UEFI...

At present I have a 2 TB HD running windows 7 that is low on disk space, I want to clone to a 3 TB HD so I can upgrade to windows 10 or 11. Straight cloning only resulted with an HD that was still low on disk space and a whole 1 TB of unallocated space that EaseUS could not extend to. Of course...

When I boot up my PC, the PC freezes abruptly and the HDD light on the PC tower is solid red. Even if I try to boot into Windows Installer USB, the PC freezes sometimes at "starting windows", or sometimes when it does go into the installer, it freezes randomly. It doesn't even respond to mouse...

I have an HP Probook 6570b with an Intel 7260.HMWG.R Revised network card. Lately, the connection has been a bit spotty - dropping out completely at times. For what its worth, I rebooted the router - no idea if that might make a difference. I'd be fine to replace the card if I knew what card...

I have a Dell G5 5000 with an i5-10400F, 1650 SUPER, 32 GB RAM (unmatched, but doesn't cause issues), 512GB NVMe I have made a Windows 7 SP1 USB, and then integrated the following drivers into the install...

hello 2 days ago i bought Dell Optiplex 9020, and i have watched some videos and managed to modify the bios and add nvme driver in to it and i made it boot windows 10 off 970 nvme ssd using an adapter. today i felt the need to go even deeper and i want to install windows 7 on that same pc using...

I have started this journey to dual boot windows 10 and windows 7. Pc specs: msi mpg z490 gaming carbon wifi I7 10700k Rtx 3080 32gb ram 250gb nvme windows 10 500gb ssd for windows 7 I have a PC running windows 10 and I would like to install windows 7 on a separate SSD so I can dual boot and...

https://devicepartner.microsoft.com/en-us/communications/comm-windows-ends-installation-path-for-free-windows-7-8-upgrade about week ago microsoft ended upgrade path for win7/8 key owners, converting keys to win10/11 for free no longer possible

As for the bios I disabled secure boot, TPM, enabled CSM, and disabled any option related to security in bios. However, I'm always getting stuck at the "starting windows" screen. I tried multiple ISOs after watching a couple of youtube videos on "how to install Windows 7 on modern hardware"...

Hi there: This week I switched my GPU from an RX 6600 to a GTX 1070 and Windows 7 became stuck in a bootloop, where it would play the startup animation to about halfway through, and then inmediately restart. I tried resetting the CMOS and uninstalling the previous GPU drivers via DDU, but the...

So about a few months ago my old laptop started overheating super quickly to the point where it couldn't stay on for a that long before shutting down. So I decided to buy a new laptop and put my hard drive into the new laptop but in doing so the old hard drive has absolutely none of the drivers...

I am not sure if thats the right category Alright so like 10 days ago my windows7 pc was lagging a lot and it took like 2-3 minutes to open anything(it still does) I upgraded to windows 10 but it got worse and on task manager it said hard disk usage 100% I tried solutions I found online but it...

I have an older machine that I need to replace the SATA HDDs in. It's a Windows 7 installation and the drives will be Western Digital. Can you recommend software to test the new drives before I make them permanent?

So hi ... few lines of question please if you can revert back please per each line: 1. I do not think you can go straight from 7 to 11 (unless you are going to buy a slurply ;) ) ... am i correct or wrong? 2. If cannot go from 7 to 11 then I need install 10 first ... question is after 10 and I...

This year will mark 14 years since the release of Windows 7 in 2009; and we are currently looking into Windows 11. And it may avidly come to notice that the same amount of time has passed between the release of Windows 7 and Windows 95 in 1995 (again 14 years). Now, in 2009, Windows 95 was much...

Hey, I have windows 7 and I have realtek sound drivers, but my sound is not working. These followings things are ocurring: 1.When I hover over sound icon, it says "No output device installed". 2.When I try to install drivers, it gives me RTKVHD64.sys BSOD. 3.In Device Manager, the realtek sound...

Hallo everybody! I have a Fujitsu LIFEBOOK PH530 laptop with Windows 7 pre-installed. I bought a SAMSUNG EVO 860 SSD drive to replace the pre-installed Seagate HDD. I used the SAMSUNG DATA MIGRATION software to migrate the drive C of my laptop, including the operating system of Windows 7 to the...

I’ve been trying to install windows 7 on my chromebook (hp11 g5), but when the first dots appear it freezes. It’s not just my chromebook, I tried to install it on my primary computer which is a HP-15-dy2093dx. I know the ISO file works because it works when I run it in a vm. anyone have an idea...

So today I finally upgraded from my I7 3770 to an I7 11700K (I know finally), and I put the computer together well and BIOS loads fine, but I have one small issue. I still like running windows 7 over 10 because of the layout and simplicity in the menus, but now that I go to an 11th gen intel...

When I reset disk at login screen then it goes to choose your keyboard layout my keyboard and mouse does not work :( I tried re plugging it but still did not work :(

Hello, (sorry for my english, this is a 95% google trad😩) I work in a small company and we have a server that is essential for our activity. This was set up about ten years ago by an enthusiast who is no longer present today. It is essential for our daily activity but its equipment is...

Hello. Can someone tell me how to change how often Windows checks for available updates? Normally, Windows checks for updates once per day. I want to make it check for updates once per hour. I know it's possible, because in the past I changed the settings, and Windows was checking for updates...

Hello. There is a Windows 7 computer I want to check its total runtime. I want to know the runtime, not the boot time. Boot time - the amount of time the computer is turned on since it was booted. Runtime - the total amount of time the computer has worked for since it was bought. I want to...

Hi! I got this new HDD (Seagate BarraCuda 3.5 2TB 7200rpm 256MB SATA3 (ST2000DM008)) to upgrade my storage and after I set it up in Windows, formatted etc. it looked fine at first, but after I tried to copy some files to it (nothing big, a couple hundreds of MBs) I noticed that the file copying...

If Windows 7 is no longer supported and is now no longer a secure operating system, how do people, who use Windows 7, protect their privacy and computer from viruses?

I'm a Windows 7 Professional user and am looking to upgrade to Windows 10, however I'm struggling to find an easy solution (likely due to the fact I missed the boat by about 2 years for a free upgrade) The Windows 10 upgrade tool throws errors and there's no easy way within Windows to upgrade...

Hello. The BIOS Mode Menu of my BIOS has only one option - UEFI. My question is, how do i add a second option, Legacy mode, so i can run the BIOS in Legacy mode, too? I heard that BIOS Legacy is the only way to make Windows 7 and XP to work on my laptop. I would like to install Windows 7 and XP...

So I have this Dell Inspiron 3670, with a Core i3-8100. Windows 10 performs terribly, Windows 8.x doesn't look good, and Windows 7 is the real logical alternative for me (Probably since that computer still has an old-school SATA HDD). But regardless if I use ISO image or USB, the keyboard and...

Hi everyone, As the title says, I got a problem with my dual-boot. I had Windows 7 (6.1.7601) installed and wanted Windows 10 (10.0.19043) in addition, so I bought a new SSD and installed 10 on it. Now to the problem: if I boot the system from the Windows 7 SSD, it starts 7 without a hitch (not...

So I have an old laptop running Windows 7 - 32 Bit that I use from time to time. I'm not super savvy at this so here it goes. I'm getting this message when I turn on my laptop - It says "Not Connected - No Connections are available" on the network icon. After clicking on this - It shows the...

Hi! I was just given a old HP Pavillion p6-2200ea desktop PC to try to fix and possibly upgrade, I've been told it has a habit of shutting down at random which I can confirm that fault, despite it only happening once during the 4 or so hours it was running. That's not the issue I'm writing...