A bootable Windows 7 install that consumes a mere 69MB of disk space has been shared online. However, it isn't a very ...

Windows enthusiasts have been stripping the operating system down to its bare minimum for years. Now, a user known as "Xeno" on X has reduced one ...

Trim down for obsolete operating system leaves it booting, but not much else Stripping Windows to the bare essentials is a ...

If you want to download Windows 7 ISO file for free and install it on your system or install it as a virtual machine via VirtualBox or any other virtualization software, you can download it by using ...

Safe mode was not available because the drive was fully encrypted except for a 100MB partition that runs the system recovery stuff. The only options available were to boot to windows (which blue ...

While Backup and Restore (Windows 7) creates viable and fantastically compatible hard drive images, various flaws and limitations with the Windows Rescue/Recovery disks render it basically unusable ...

Pleasingly then, one tech tinkerer has pushed Windows 7 to its Lilliputian limits. The punchline, though? The Windows anti-infringement system still works, helpfully declaring that this copy of the OS ...

It’s the end of the line for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. These older versions of Windows (plus Windows RT) stop receiving all security updates today, over a decade after their original releases.

In brief: Anyone planning to use an old Windows 7 or 8 product key to activate Windows 11 should probably pull the trigger now if it isn't too late. Microsoft has announced the end of a grace period ...