Questions tagged [windows-7]

Windows 7 is the Microsoft PC operating system released in October 2009, and reached End Of Life on January 14, 2020. It is the successor to Windows Vista and has been succeeded by Windows 8. It shared the same UI style as Windows Vista, but was based on an incrementally newer version of the NT kernel (6.1, from 6.0) and was released in 6 major editions for both home and professional use.

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Windows 7 is Microsoft's PC operating system which was released in October 2009 and reached End Of Life on January 14, 2020. Intended to be an incremental upgrade to the Windows line, Windows 7 is compatible with applications and hardware with which Windows Vista is already compatible. Features include multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar, referred to as the Superbar, a home networking system called HomeGroup, and performance improvements.

###What is Windows 7?

Your PC, simplified

You told us to make Windows simpler and easier to use. We listened. Windows 7 has better ways to find and manage files—like Jump Lists and improved taskbar previews—to help you speed through everyday tasks. It's designed for faster and more reliable performance, so your PC just works the way you want it to. With 64-bit support, you can take full advantage of the latest powerful PCs. And great features like HomeGroup, Windows Media Center, and Windows Touch make new things possible.

- From microsoft.com: What is Windows 7

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###Minimum hardware requirements:

Architecture    32-bit                  64-bit
Processor       1 GHz 32-bit processor  1 GHz 64-bit processor
Memory (RAM)    1 GB                    2 GB
HDD free space  16 GB free space        20 GB free space
Graphics card   DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM driver model 1.0
Optical drive   DVD drive (only to install from DVD media)
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Avoiding SPOFS with GlusterFS and Windows

We have a GlusterFS cluster we use for our processing function. We want to get Windows integrated into it, but are having some trouble figuring out how to avoid the single-point-of-failure that is a Samba server serving a GlusterFS volume. Our…
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How to disable "safely remove hardware"

I have some windows 7 virtual machines in xen that have devices showing up in "safely remove hardware". I don't want users to ever be able to remove/eject any hardware at all. I'm told vmware has a hotplug option. xen doesn't seem to provide this…
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Machine always responds to 192.168.1.2 IP address, which is not set on the machine

UPDATE BELOW: UPDATE 2 BELOW: FINAL Solution I have a brand new HP EliteBook notebook 8560p running Windows 7 64bit. I plug it into a small Dlink di-604 router, it is currently configured with DHCP and gets ip address 192.168.1.100, ip address of…
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Windows Firewall has port 80 open but prevents Apache from making connections

I have a Windows 7 machine serving a very few (but important!) pages. I have an exception that allows any traffic to port 80*, but Apache 2.2 still can't serve pages (though I can see them from the machine itself). If I disable the Windows…
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Which media was used to install Windows 7

I need to find out if a deployment of Windows 7 to a network was done with OEM, Retail, Volume or VL (VLK) media. I need to know which product was used in case it is what is causing some licensing problems that I'm experiencing. Where does this…
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User Friendly port knocker (port knocking client) for Windows?

It seems "It's me" is the most popular port knocking client for windows… Except… it sucks. It works for console-savvy users such as me, but, unsurprisingly, all my users (3 people) hate console windows. I know better than to force it upon them. I…
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How to keep user logged-in when disconnecting from RDP session

I connecting remotely using remote desktop to windows 7 client when i disconnect the session it automatically logged-out the user in the remote client. I want to keep the user logged-in on the remote client after i close the RDP session. Thanks in…
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Disable Screen Saver for Remote Sessions Only

I work from home, but I'm also in the office quite often. My work and home machines are both Windows 7 Ultimate. When I'm in the office I like my computer to go to screen saver fairly quickly and then lock ("On resume, display logon screen"). But…
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Remote Desktop fails without error message

After rebooting my server Windows 2008 R2 server, I can't log into the remote desktop anymore. When I try to connect, the remote desktop zooms through different status messages, the last of them being "Configuring remote session" and then reverts to…
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Anonymous file sharing without login window, from Windows 7 server to XP clients

I'm trying to provide machines on a small LAN with read-only, anonymous access to files shared from a Windows 7 workstation (let's call it WIN7SVR). In particular, I don't want clients to have to deal with a login window when they navigate to,…
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How do I turn windows features on or off using powershell or commandline in windows 7?

I have scripted against sysocmgr in Windows XP, servermanagercmd in server 2008, and now I find that I have to use a new PowerShell module servermanager to install features on Server 2008 R2 and so I would expect that I would use the same module in…
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Are the free Win 7/8/10 VM's Microsoft provides for testing purposes restricted or any different than their counterparts?

Sorry for the poor title, I'll explain better here. Microsoft provides free Win 7/8/10 Enterprise VM's inorder to test modern browsers here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ I want to use the OS for something different…
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Running a Batch File from Task Scheduler Without User being logged In

I'm trying to run a batch file on Windows 7 from the Task Scheduler. I can run the batch file fine if I run it from the command prompt. If I run it from the Task Scheduler to only run when the user is logged in, the task will run without any…
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How is Windows Server optimized differently than Windows desktop?

All the answers I see mostly just say "server is optimized to be a server and desktop is optimized to be a desktop" with no technical details explaining how and where these optimizations are applied. They should be running the same kernel right? So…
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Use Powershell to start a GUI program on a remote machine

There are two Windows 7 machines setup on the same network. I enabled everything needed so that they could communicate with winrm. When I run the following command: Invoke-Command -ComputerName REMOTE-PC -ScriptBlock { Start-Process calc.exe…
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