windows 7

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...

The very first time I turn on my pc on a day it takes about 10-15 minutes (during which pc fans run normally, hard drive activity light is off, monitor is on, monitor power light blinks constantly and it doesn't display anything) to get to Bios post screen in which I get displayed that CMOS...

Forgive me if this has been asked a hundred times before, I figured this would be a common question but I cannot for the life of me find any threads of someone moving their old OS to another drive without having the new drive wiped first. This ended up longer than expected so there's a TLDR at...

Hi guys! I have a problem with reinstalling windows 7. All things I did was I downloaded a windows 7 then I made my USB flash drive bootable with a program. After that, I am starting the PC and enter in BIOS. Then I chose my flash drive as the first boot disk. When the PC is loading it is...

Hi I have a question? I want to upgrade my PC to Windows 10 Using my New SSD but i don't want to lost my data on My HDD Which is Windows 7. On my HDD is Windows 7 with all important files and games. Now I want to upgrade to Windows 10 Using my new SSD With my Important Files and Games from my...

Greetings Everyone! I have encountered a very inconvenient problem yesterday and I need your help. Scenario: There is a Lenovo T420 laptop with Windows 7 operating system on it and I wanted to install a Windows 10 instead. On the laptop there was around 32GB personal data - all included in...

I have an i5 12600K and Asus Prime z690m-plus D4 motherboard I originally bought the PC to run a multiple boot so I could play older games as well as newer games. To my surprise, technology doesn't seem to be backwards compatible. I have tried installing Windows 7 using the Asus EZ installer...

The device is HP Precario Compaq CQ61 (3GB RAM/Pentium T4200 CPU/BIOS Version: Hewlett-Packard F.23). It currently runs on Windows 7 32bit but the processor supports 64bit (I've checked). I've downloaded the Windows 10 x64 (build 10074) .iso file from uptodown.com. I've used PowerISO to boot it...

For the 3rd time this week my computer gets stuck on the shutting down screen. At this point it has already powered off the keyboard and mouse, and so interacting with it is impossible but to power everything off. When i turn it back on it does not start with the screen saying "improper...

Hello, i have a huge problem with my shared printers last few days. Seems Microsoft decided to mess with things again and i cant find a fix. So i have a shared printer thats locally connected to a Win7 PC and shared through it to the other computers in the network The other computers are...

Hello my work pc randomly shows vertical and short horizontal lines and shut downs.

Hello, Windows 7 download page at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-7 doesn't contain any download link any longer. Is there any way of downloading the official version from Microsoft. I have a product key, but no installation media. I don't want to download from any...

Hey I was on YouTube last night trying to figure out how to go back to windows 7. I was forced to update. Where is the best place to get a copy of windows? I went on Microsoft webpage and they have changed things so you can’t get a copy I believe. I just downloaded a link from a website...

I had to format my PC and reinstall windows7 because of a small issue some days ago, i was able to do so without much problem. Both system partition C:\\ and data partition D:\\ are logical partitions of a 1 physical disk. <--- This is important. Almost everything worked fine except for a...

Hello, so i want to dual boot windows 10 and windows 7 on my primary rig. i want to use windows 7 for legacy phone rooting, legacy iphones and just for older devices i own. Problem is that i am afraid to lose my data if i install windows 7. I have integrated tpm 2.0 enabled in my asus bios...

HP ProBook 450 running Windows 7. I tried via all settings but don't get a low battery warning - maybe 1 cell gone ? Prefer a Chrome low battery alarm with low battery % settings and a load sound. Tried 2-3 but they are 1-2 star stuff. Any suggestions ? Thank you and stay healthy.

hey, as seen in the title, and additional to that how do i know if a program is important or not in the task manager?

Hello, can I still buy windows 7 activation key legally in 2021, I understand that I should upgrade to windows 10 but for now I still wanna stay with windows 7 for several reasons, and one of the main reasons is my pc is weak. so is there any legal way to do that? thanks.

I’ll preface this by saying that I’m already aware that SSDs are always faster and sometimes even more economical than HDDs with WRB configured, my purpose for posting this question is out of morbid curiosity. Will Windows 10 and/or 7 allow WRB to be enabled on a USB stick when the OS is...

I just inherited a junk pc with an interesting assortment of parts. I was looking to put some older, compatible parts that I already had lying around unused inside of it as a weekend project to make it run some older games (circa 2006~2009). I wanted to ask if anybody had any recommendations for...

Hi, I have windows 7 laptop which is not booting currently but i have take data back-up from that windows user profile and desktop folder which are having default file permission, so planning to boot the laptop with live USB Linux distro and copy windows user profile and desktop folder. I'm...

hi I have my friend's laptop which has windows 7 ultimate installed on it, till yesterday it was working fine. some files needed to copy from his hdd so connected his windows 7 hdd to my windows 10 laptop thru sata to usb connector. drives,files shown and copied perfectly, after reinstalled his...

Recently my high school gave me 4 old HP office desktops that they weren't using. While trying to do that trick of going into startup repair and opening command prompt to log into administrator on Windows 7 Professional, my mouse and keyboard stops working to were I can't select anything in...

I'm interested in building a new system with Windows 7 as the OS. I have a list of parts at https://pcpartpicker.com/user/andy_werber/saved/#view=tn3vjX. My requirements are that the price should be minimal, the processor should run at or above 2.2 GHz, and dimensions of the case be <= 16 inches...

Hi, I have a HP Dv6t-7000 Quad edition laptop running Win 7 with a 2nd monitor in extended mode. The GPU is Nvidia GT 650m in optimus with Intel HD 4000. So for a better part of 10 years, I have been running with a Samsung SyncMaster 2494HM and it ran beautifully at 1920x1080x60Hz. I am...

I am trying to install windows 7 on a h410 motherboard with g6400. I am installing using a usb key. When I selected to boot from the usb, I press any key to start the installation. When I get to the windows 7 swirly logo the screen freezes. I tried to turn on CSM in the bios but when I do...

My mother's desktop computer recently had issues. After using the computer for a while, these lines (picture links below) would appear on the screen. Sometimes everything on the computer screen would freeze (even the mouse cursor) after using the computer for some time. She had to restart the...

I have an expensive piece of software that runs on Win 7 that would be even costlier to run on Windows 10. I have a spare Windows 10 machine (a Lenovo tower). I've been looking into installing Win 7 on it (32 bit Win 7 is fine). I'm looking for the cheapest and easiest way to do this. Any...

Hello everyone, I was downgrading a laptop (Asus X540SA) from Windows 10 to Windows 7, but I ran into a problem with the installation. I plug the usb with the windows 7 iso file, but after that i get an error which is saying "A Required CD/DVD Drive Device Driver is Missing". I was thinking of...

so I had a laptop with windows 10 insalled I decided to downgrade to windows 7 I updated the drivers and everything but now the windows update function doesn't work it it shows error code 80072EFE I ignored this problem and kept using windows 7 but many problems occured such as apps not working...

Hello my friends, I am a computer repairer, and sometimes my friends bring me some computers so that I fix them, but yesterday a friend of mine gave me a unit that had a faulty RAM stick, bought a new DDR3 "First Tech" 4Gb @1333 MHz then plugged it in the motherboard, when I press the power...

Hello I've downgraded a windows 10 pc to a windows 7 and my wifi adapter is gone and now I cannot connect to the internet

Hello, firstly I hope you can understand my english. Ok, so a friend gave me his old laptop to reinsall Windows 7. The laptop has Intel 575 (Celereon I think), 1Gb ram. Before reinstalling I opened the laptop to save his files on my external hard, and it seemed to run ok, no freezes, but I dont...

Hello guys, I have an old mobo MSI K9n6sgm-v . Athlon 64 dual core 4200+ processor. 4gb ram. And a 40gb ide HD. I ve tryed to install win 7 64 bit from a multi OS dvd rom. But when finish the unpacking and copying the files to the HD on the boot up giles me the 0xc00000255 error.the dvd rom...

So right now i renovated my old laptop and removed it's HDD and replaced it with a new SSD, instead of throwing the HDD away i put it into my pc now it has a installation of windows 7 on that disk and i wanted to boot into it through my pc which already has a SSD with windows 10. so i boot into...

I have an SSD and a HDD on my system. The SSD runs windows 7, the HDD runs windows 10. A couple of days ago, I was using win10 and it installed an update. When I booted my pc the next day, trying to boot into win7, I got the black screen of death. The screen is totally black, except for the...

Hey! I have a weird problem I am battling for few hours. When I start my packard bell laptop and boot bios everything seems normal, but when I proceed to windows loading phase after like 3seconds laptop freezes. Windows recovery freezes too. Can´t access safemode either. I have read a lot of...

I am an employee at a company in the POS department and we use Epson TM-H6000IV receipt printers on our POS machines. We frequently get slip light errors and I do not know how to fix it, we generally have the store clear out paper jams and such, but there are times that it does not work. The...

can anyone help me? I can't open the main folders like windows explorer and control panel, etc. i cant run cmd sfc /scannow nor can i open system restore I can't open Control panel. It keeps saying error Explorer.exe There is not enough memory to run this program. Exit one or more programs and...

Im trying to install windows 7 on an HP Pavilion dv6000 (dv6415eo to be more precise), but i cant get the damn thing to boot into the windows installer. It currently has windows 7 installed on it, i dont know what version, but it just gets stuck at the "starting windows" screen. I burned a win7...