r/windows7 • • Aug 01 '26

Tip PSA: You can still download official, legit Windows 7 ISOs from Microsoft Servers.

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508 Upvotes

I was just as shocked as you are.

Instructions:

  1. Copy the JS bookmarklet from this GitHub Gist page (credit here goes to bmsimons on GitHub!): https://gist.github.com/bmsimons/f2bc1db9d4bd1e46383ae16714e1d318

  2. Navigate to: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

  3. For Chrome users: Inspect anywhere on the page, click the three dots in the upper right, More Tools > Network Conditions. Uncheck use default user agent, and select BlackBerry BB10. DON'T close the inspect pane, and click reload to apply to user agent changes. For Firefox users: Press Ctrl+Shift+M to open Responsive design mode, then press the up/down arrow button to the right of the user agent string input box, and select Firefox Mobile. Reload the page. Right-click and inspect anywhere on the page and continue as follows.

  4. Select "Console" in the upper bar of the inspect pane, type "allow pasting" (no quotes), and press Enter. Then paste the bookmarklet you copied and press Enter.

  5. You can now close the Inspect pane. Select the Windows 7 ISO of your choice, and continue through the following drop down options as you would for a Windows 10 ISO to receive the download links in the end. I did confirm these work. For example, I've attached a picture of me receiving a Windows 7 Starter download link, as well as a picture of a mounted x86 SP1 Win7 Pro ISO I downloaded to confirm they were actual Windows 7 ISOs.

All ISOs come from the official software.download.prss.microsoft.com server. This method also likely works for Windows 8.1 ISO downloads as well.

UPDATE: You can also download Office 2007, 2010, older Windows 10 builds and more using my modified bookmarklet here, many thanks to ppisarczyk on GitHub for the TechBench dump. + Thanks to u/PlaneSheepherder1206 for the GitHub tutorial here!


r/windows7 • • 23h ago Bravo

Discussion Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Keyboard 8000 vs 7000

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82 Upvotes

Sequel to my last post, 8000 is glowy but 7000 is not, most other differences can be seen in the picture, typically the 7000 are easier to find for cheap.


r/windows7 • • 2h ago

Help Unavailable driver for windows 7 for RTL8822CE

1 Upvotes

Hello

I recently installed windows 7 on my modern pc (hp pavilion gaming desktop) that has a Realtek WiFi card
(PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_C822&SUBSYS_8643103C)
(RTL8822CE)

I know Realtek never gave us windows 7 version but I was wondering if someone ever made a port for it

I was searching the whole internet and I couldn’t find a single port for it, if someone knows where to find a port for windows 7 that would be lovely.

Thanks.


r/windows7 • • 5h ago

Help Help needed with webview2

1 Upvotes

Does anyone know how to install WebView2 on windows 7?


r/windows7 • • 1d ago

Discussion Windows 7 Starter Ultimate PC

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34 Upvotes

the most underrated edition of Windows 7 on a modern computer


r/windows7 • • 1d ago

Discussion Windows 7 App additions

14 Upvotes

Hello again, Reddit Win7, I have come to consult the community for their help and wisdom:
are there any apps or programs that could make my Win7 laptop more fun to use or look cooler?

Of course, I could go ask Google for links but why do that if I can ask my fellow (probably) human beings, many of which have knowledge for this exact topic.
Plus, I’m pretty sure I’ll be re-routed to Reddit sooner or later. Thanks in advance and have a nice day!


r/windows7 • • 1d ago

Gaming Does anyone play GTA5 on Win7?

6 Upvotes

Hi folks! Some questions here. I own GTA5/GTAO on Steam and and also on PS4. I've not tried downloading it to my Win7 PC still from Steam, as I'm guessing it will not work (legacy). Or maybe story mode will work? I dont know, I do believe you'd need the launcher from Rockstar, which does not support Win7 anymore?

I'm considering getting the game "somewhere else" to put it that way (not sure if we're allowed to mention it.) Just wondering if anyone else has tested? I still haven't checked if I can run the game on my PC, lol but I may be able to run it as legacy with lower graphics maybe. Either way, my questions are:

- has anyone tested if the non-steam/-non rockstar launcher (game gotten elsewhere....) works on Win7?

- could it work with mods in that case? and if so, are there mods out there to create your own "online" character offline? I just want to chill and drive around. i'd be content with a sort of director mode honestly.


r/windows7 • • 2d ago

Help What should I do with this??

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29 Upvotes

Found this old pc in my storage room idek if it works or not Can I install great 7 on it?


r/windows7 • • 1d ago

Discussion Has anyone tried the vhd dual boot?

5 Upvotes

had anyone tried dual booting thru vhd? its is different from a traditional dual boot


r/windows7 • • 2d ago

Discussion I love this keyboard so much

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300 Upvotes

It’s glowy!!!!


r/windows7 • • 2d ago

Discussion Exploring a Windows 7 magazine + others!

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6 Upvotes

What do y’all think? Should they have kept doing this with newer Windows releases?


r/windows7 • • 2d ago

Concept Codename "Shogun"

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18 Upvotes

After much research, I came to the conclusion that Fujitsu E910 and E920 are the SFF category winners.

\- Thick steel case that can take a monitor on top of it with ease.

\- Has grilled vents on top of the PCI slots area.

\- 92mm intake fan that blows towards the CPU and GPU.

\- Perfect engineering of the cooling system from the front to the back.

\- PSU 250 watts (capable of 280 watts for 20 seconds), 92% efficiency Platinum.

\- Can take 3 x 3.5" HDD (one in the dedicated slot, one in the 5.25" bay, one in the 3.5" floppy bay).

\- Made in Germany.

The E910 is 3rd gen Intel and the E920 is 4th gen Intel.

Here we have the E910 with the following specs:

\- i7 3770.

\- 2 x 8 Gb DDR3 1600 Mhz Crucial Ballistix that force CL9 timings.

\- 6 TB 3.5" HDD.

\- 750 GB 2.5" HDD.

\- 256 GB SSD.

\- GTX 750ti lp for win XP.

\- Quadro K620 lp for win 7.

\- Quadro T1000 lp (GTX 1650 equivalent) for win 10.

\- Noctua 92x25mm intake fan.

\- Noctua 60x25mm intake fan.

\- Thermalright AXP90 x47 copper heat sink with 92x14mm Noctua fan.

Unit has been painted with RAL 6014 matte, and another transparent protection layer of 2k paint.

Unit has a home-made front grill in the place of 5.25" bay that is taken from a Dell 3020 MT front cover, painted and cut to fit.

Monitor is 24" EIZO medical grade made in Japan. 60hz.

Keyboard is mechanical made in Ukraine.

Mouse is Logitech G102.

Mouse pad is Logitech.

Speakers are Bose Lifestyle Active 30 watts manufactured in 1990. Also sprayed with RAL 6014 and 2k.

I have one more motherboard, 3 more PSU, an i5 3470, an i5 3470T ( the most powerfull dual core, 35 watts, 3rd gen CPU for win XP) as spare parts. Also plenty of DDR and HDD. 3 more monitors, one mouse and one keyboard.

This PC is always on sharing and downloading torrents. It is used daily. Movies, DOTA, Heroes 3, web browsing.

It has windows 7 professional genuine.

Soon to join the ranks is the Fujitsu E920.

I hope you guys like it.

Edit. The stock CPU heat sink does a much better job at cooling the CPU than the x47 copper.

It keeps the i7 3770 at 65° under prime95 tests, while the x47 copper manages only 72-74°.


r/windows7 • • 4d ago

Discussion Any good defrag & registry cleaners?

6 Upvotes

I'm looking to defrag and perform a registry cleanup of my 2007 era W7 laptop. Is there anything free, reliable, lightweight and safe that I can download these days?

For defrag do i just use the Windows basic defrag or is there a better tool?

For registry cleanup, back then, Piriform's CCleaner was one of the go-to utilities for registry cleaning, but I've heard it became a real piece of junk full of bloatware and super intrusive.


r/windows7 • • 6d ago

Discussion Where can i get this theme?

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102 Upvotes

r/windows7 • • 6d ago

Discussion What's the best way of gaming

13 Upvotes

I game by using gog games, disc games, and abandoned ware. I don't know if steam still works


r/windows7 • • 6d ago

Gaming Finally! my ultimate Windows 7 nostalgia machine is here.

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Man, it feels so good to experience my youngin' time again.

Back in the late 2000s to early 2010s, as a wee little schoolkid, I got a crappy Intel Atom netbook on Windows 7 that doesn't play anything besides those 2D casual games from the likes of GameHouse and basic 3D games.

Nevertheless, that's my very first computer that I own. I play and managed to tweak a lot of stuff, even installing a custom driver at some point cuz I'm tired of playing Need for Speed Most Wanted at single digit frames lol

More than a decade later, I decided to get one of the strongest windows 7 era laptops with a 4:3 1024x768 screen, the Toughbook CF-31 MK3.

And this thing's a beast! It's packed with an i5-3360M with Radeon HD 7750M discrete graphics, and 8 gigs of ram. That makes it a powerhouse for the games I want to play xD

Sadly the screen is a little borked at the left side (very small dead pixel), but otherwise, it's a 10/10 experience, playing the games I played as a kid, but without a wide screen that will stretch the UI of older windows titles.


r/windows7 • • 6d ago

Help download issue

7 Upvotes

whenever i try to download any sort of app on my windows 7(professional) pc 64-bit, it downloads normally but when i open it for the actual installment it js shows this pop up image

i have service pack 1 so how can i solve this?


r/windows7 • • 6d ago

Help Installing Windows 7 & Struggling Against Modern Infrastructure

12 Upvotes

I really want to install Windows 7 on my computer because Windows 10 is running bad, but I don't want to use Linux. I was wondering if you folk would know how I could do this in a way where I have the newest Windows 7 updates for the security of the system and work arounds for modern software. I'm not afraid of using community-made stuff as long as it's safe and works good, like updates or something. I've tried maybe once or twice in the past, but it's a bit of a pain because I have to go hunting down my drivers because companies just don't show them anymore. The NVIDIA NVS 5200M on this computer recently completely stopped working, so I'm left with integrated graphics, which is something that Windows 10 isn't too fun with because it takes a good sec to open any application. All help is appreciated!


r/windows7 • • 6d ago

Bug spotify bug

3 Upvotes

im aware that spotify stopped supporting windows 7. i thought it still supported it on the web tho? whenver i try to play songs in the web it js skips and keeps on skipping every song and say "Spotify can't play this right now". is it possible for me to fix this? only the ads are played normally


r/windows7 • • 7d ago

Help Actual Firefox 115ESR doesn't validate cloudflare captcha anymore.

14 Upvotes

Hello Seveners of Reddit. I come here to find a solution or maybe if someone can test, to see if it's a problem on my side. I use FF115.44ESR, and since this Wednesday afternoon (the 4th, central european time), I can't pass anymore cloudflare captcha when validating manually by ticking the case. I tried in incognito/private window mode for my browser, didn't change.

It was working perfectly fine on Tuesday night (the 3rd), and the days and months before, even with previous FF115 versions. All my ad block or potential interfering extensions are turned off on websites that don't pass. As weird as it is (and I don't get why), website https://www.fanfiction.net/ can still validate the captcha.

If some of you use FF115.44ESR, can you test on
- https://www.doomworld.com/
- https://steamdb.info/
to see if you can pass the captcha by manually ticking it, and tell me here, it would be nice. Thanks a have a nice day ^^


r/windows7 • • 7d ago

Help Please help bro this is very very annoying

16 Upvotes

installed windows 7 Ultimate on a laptop with Ryzen 3000 cpu, everything except the graphics is working, on the welcome screen after boot its display freezes for some seconds then completely goes black screen as soon as the startup sound plays, then returns only after some time, hardware acceleration is gone, and resolution is locked, device manager shows the generic VGA adapter cannot start? I don't know how it's displaying ANYTHING at all without it but it is HD, please helpppp meeeee, amd doesn't have drivers for this CPU on 7, community made driver i found is for desktop CPUs and don't work, I tried to find some other community driver, but other than some driver made by a dude named canonkong, i didn't find any, and that one doesn't work either since it's for desktop, maybe you guys have something??


r/windows7 • • 8d ago

Help where could i find a digital copy of the windows 7 quickstart guide

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82 Upvotes

i wanted to print the little book quickstart guide for myself bc i do not wanna buy a windows 7 dvd as i dont have the money for it but i couldnt find it any help?


r/windows7 • • 8d ago

Help How to fix the Google search engine in the IE 11 browser?

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82 Upvotes

Is it possible to use Google in addition to Bing and DuckDuckGo in this browser?


r/windows7 • • 8d ago

Tip Compaq Presario

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104 Upvotes

¿Que aplicaciones y juegos creen que pueda correr mi Compaq Presario V3617LA Windows 7 home premium 120GB de almacenamiento y 1GB de ram?


r/windows7 • • 7d ago

Help Windows 7 Home Premium on AMD E1-2100/Intel Atom N455

14 Upvotes

Hello, good morning, afternoon or evening. I was overcome with curiosity to know how would W7 HP run on any of these CPUs, provided they got at least 4GB RAM and a SSD.

I know that many computers using these processors came with Windows 7 Starter pre-installed, but for obvious reasons I don't want to use it. I also know that the APU's iGPU is considerably superior to the Atom's Intel GMA 3150, but I don't know if that means any improvement on the desktop responsiveness, especially using Aero and transparencies (Well, at least I disable them on my own: I'm not entirely convinced by them, and the performance improvement is welcome).

I would probably use it for very simple things: documents in Microsoft Word/PowerPoint 2010, play MP4 H.264 or WMV videos at 480p/720p30 using VLC 2.2.8 (Although the GMA 3150 does not have hardware H.264 decoding, the CPU is enough to decode 720p on it's own), play MP3/WAV audios or music, maybe some Scratch 1.6 and light photo editing, and very simple games like PvZ, Worms: Armaggedon and Terraria, alongside emulators for SNES/Sega Genesis/GBA. I don't think I'll ever use it to browse the internet, but if I do, I would probably be checking pages like Wikipedia, old Reddit and Notebookcheck.

If you're wondering why I'm interested in performance in something so old and limited... Well, I would like to find something kind of more powerful that was used on 10-12" screen netbooks (And that were ridiculously common: I can't almost find any ThinkPads X or similar netbooks on my region). I don't really mind that low performance anyway lol

That's it. Has anyone here ever used a laptop with these specifications for a similar use to what I'm describing? How did it went? Thanks in advance c: