Windows 7 isos in 2024

Don’t use them.

But in case you really really have to. I’m too paranoid to use the ISOs uploaded by the community so I got the scraped ones. You have to go back to 2022 to get them though. Use wget or similar to download them.

Windows 7 Home Premium - 32-bit
Windows 7 Home Premium - 64-bit
Windows 7 Professional - 32-bit
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Windows 7 Ultimate - 32-bit
Windows 7 Ultimate - 64-bit

This is supposed to be able to verify that the downloads are genuine by hash.

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Still running a Win-7 install for the few Win-OS-only games I occasionally play. Fortunately it’s behind my ISP’s firewall (pretty good, actually) and I never use the browser on it, so it should be OK :person_facepalming:

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I have used browsers with win 8.1,7,vista,and XP way beyond there timeline and no issues. Just stay with common sense with anything even newer and most users will always be fine

I use Win 7 to run some older games that have issues on modern windows, but it’s only for offline single player games.

I used to use it pretty regularly, but as of late I’ve had less issues getting stuff to run on windows 11 than I did with 8/8.1 or even 10.

@MattiP The link for Home Premium 64 bit seems to be wrong. It downloads an x86 ISO. I tried to find the correct download link on my own but have no idea how you manged to get the links to those files.

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Thanks for telling. I fixed it now. I got the original download link from here.

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Ah, now I understand. I was unable to find the links on the Internet Archive and navigate there, but this way around makes sense. Downloading them all and placing them on the NAS for when I need them. Thank you again, this is useful.

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Took me some time to find those so totally understandable if you didn’t find them. It annoys me to the core when things disappear from the net so then I have to figure out a way to find them :slight_smile:

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I read into this a little and all the ways to get these ISOs online seem a little to risky for me. I was unable to find a trustworthy source for SHA256 hashes for these images. There are other sources online too but they either provide, for my taste, insufficient SHA1 checksums or the source of the checksums is unclear.

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Vista, 7, 8, 10, and 11 are all basically the same OS under the hood.

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Have an ol’ chungus laptop, with W7 natively installed [never sees the interwebs]
[few CnC games / Office 2003 stack / Adobe LR4]

Yeah., but since Microsoft don’t have them for download I’d say this is the least bad way to get them. They’re safer than some iso that a guy named Polarbear34 uploaded to The Pirate Bay :slight_smile:

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I used Win7 up to until 2021 or when ever the new NVENC became a thing with OBS. I remember it was hard to install on a new system from 2018. Needed to add USB 3.0 drivers to the ISO because it wouldn’t otherwise get anywhere.

It’s still my favorite OS 'till this day.

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Hmmm… I might have to try with the usb 3.0 driver.

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I’m still using the FX-8350 system I built sometime between 2012-2014 as my daily driver, and am still running win7x64pro because it’s the best OS MS ever made. I run the free version of Avast AV and use it’s firewall. Those of us with experience know that 99% of security problems are PEBKAC caused and not OS version caused. I DID have to sacrifice my previous system and install win10 on it so I could run TurboTax…

Do these ISOs have SP1 integrated into them? Because I have my original Windows 7 x64 Pro Student DVD still that I bought for $29, but obviously it doesn’t include SP1. Of course I have the fantastic WsusOffline to handle all the post-SP1 updates…

It’s the sp1 build 7601 LDR Escrow. No idea what the two last means.

Thanks for the response. I don’t know what LDR Escrow means either. But it says SP1 which is what my question was. Unfortunately it times out when attempting to download after a few hundred megs. I have a 75mbit symmetrical fibre connection that is very solid so I know that isn’t the problem.

Yeah, I had the same problem. Had to use wget to download it. Try it or some windows download manager.

Tried wget and wget64 and got 404 Not Found errors. How long ago did you download your copy? I’m assuming those links have already been cut. I shouldn’t even bother trying to get this to work since I have my original DVD, I have the last version of WSUS Offline that supported Win7 with all the updates until they cut off regular support(I know there was paid extended support, but I don’t know anywhere to get “safe” copies of those), and I know I must have a copy of the SP1 on a usb stick.