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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64bit (OEM) System Builder DVD 1 Pack [Old Packaging]
- Make the things you do every day easier with improved desktop navigation.
- Start programs faster and more easily, and quickly find the documents you use most often.
- Make your web experience faster, easier and safer than ever with Internet Explorer 8.
- Watch, pause, rewind, and record TV.
- Easily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup.
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Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- Product Dimensions : 8 x 7 x 1 inches; 3.75 Pounds
- Item model number : GFC-02050
- Date First Available : March 1, 2011
- Manufacturer : Microsoft
- ASIN : B004Q0PT3I
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,364 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
- #58 in Operating Systems (Software)
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Product Description
Product Description
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit (1-Pack)
From the Manufacturer
Use of this OEM System Builder Channel software is subject to the terms of the Microsoft OEM System Builder License. This software is intended for pre-installation on a new personal computer for resale. This OEM System Builder Channel software requires the assembler to provide end user support for the Windows software and cannot be transferred to another computer once it is installed. To acquire Windows software with support provided by Microsoft please see our full package "Retail" product offerings.
More work, more play, and more of everything in between. Click to enlarge.
Manage lots of open programs, documents, and browser windows easily with thumbnail and full-screen previews of open windows. Click to enlarge.
With Snap you can arrange two windows side-by-side just by dragging them to opposite sides of your screen. Click to enlarge.
Open files you use regularly in just two clicks with Jump Lists on the improved taskbar and Start menu.
The best entertainment experience on your PC
Easiest Windows to use ever
- Simplify your PC with new navigation features like Aero Shake, Jump Lists, and Snap.
- Customize Windows to look and feel the way you like by changing themes and taskbar programs.
- Setting up a home network and connecting to printers and devices is easier than ever.
- Windows 7 Home Premium supports the latest hardware and software.
It's faster
- Designed to make your PC sleep and resume quicker.
- Takes full advantage of 64-bit PC hardware and memory.
- Connecting to wireless networks is fast and easy.
Best PC entertainment experience
- Watch, pause, rewind, and record TV with Windows Media Center.
- Blu-ray read/write support for data files.
- Includes integrated video and Dolby audio codecs.
Simplifies Everyday Tasks
Simple to use
Preview
Manage lots of open programs, documents, and browser windows easily with thumbnail and full-screen previews of open windows.Pin
Open files and get around your PC faster with the improved taskbar. You can easily pin programs you use often to the taskbar and launch them in just one click.Windows 7 lets you peek behind open windows to get a quick look at your desktop. Click to enlarge.
Instantly locate and open virtually any file on your PC right from the Start menu with Windows Search. Click to enlarge.
Turn your PC into a TV with Windows Media Center, and enjoy your favorite videos and music with Windows Media Player. Click to enlarge.
Jump Lists
Open files you use regularly in just two clicks with Jump Lists on the improved taskbar and Start menu.Snap
Windows 7 has simple new ways to manage open windows. For example, with Snap you can arrange two windows side-by-side just by dragging them to opposite sides of your screen.Peek and Shake
Windows 7 lets you peek behind open windows to get a quick look at your desktop.Windows Search
Instantly locate and open virtually any file on your PC, from documents to emails to songs, right from the Start menu, with Windows Search.Easy to connect
Setting up wireless connections is easier with consistent, one-click connections to available networks. Click to enlarge.
Enjoy the photos, music, and videos on your home PC when you're away from home with remote media streaming. Click to enlarge.
Windows Touch makes PCs with touch screens easier and more intuitive to use. Click to enlarge.
Manage Backup and Restore and other features through Action Center. Click to enlarge.
Search, organize, and edit files across a network in the same way you would a single folder.Click to enlarge.
Wireless setup
With Windows 7, setting up wireless connections is easier with consistent, one-click connections to available networks, whether those networks are based on Wi-Fi, mobile broadband, dial-up, or corporate VPN.HomeGroup
Connect Windows 7 PCs on a home network in just four clicks and easily get to the photos, music, and files on each one--even share printers--with HomeGroup.Easy to browse the web
Internet Explorer 8
Visual search helps you quickly find the information you want by adding visual cues and previews to search results from top search providers including Live Search, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Amazon, and others.Internet Explorer 8
Use Web slices to conveniently keep up with changes on frequently updated websites, like eBay auctions or traffic sites, directly from the IE8 toolbar.Easy to communicate and share
Windows Live Photo Gallery
Windows Live Photo Gallery makes share your photos to your favorite photo site easy.Windows Live Mail
Windows Live Mail makes managing multiple email accounts easy.Windows Live Family Safety
Keep your child safe by managing what sites they can visit and who they can send/receive emails and im communications from.Note: Windows Live components need to be downloaded separately.
Works The Way You Want
Faster and More Reliable
Windows 7 will help your PC sleep and resume more quickly. It is designed to respond to commands more quickly and will help your PC to be more reliable.Fewer clicks and less interruptions
Makes New Things Possible
Media on your terms
Windows Media Center
Turn your PC into a TV with Windows Media Center.Windows Media Center
Watch shows for free when and where you want with Internet TV.DirectX 11
DirectX 11 technology delivers breathtaking game graphics so real, it's unreal.New ways to engage
Windows Touch
Windows Touch makes PCs with touch screens easier and more intuitive to use.Media on your terms
Windows Media Player
More and more consumer electronics, from TVs to digital photo frames, can be connected to home networks. With Play To in Windows 7, you'll be able to easily send music, photos, videos from your PC to a networked device throughout your home.You can enjoy the photos, music, and videos on your home PC when you're away from home with remote media streaming.
Work anywhere
Location Aware Printing
Windows 7 will automatically pick the right printer for you when you move from home to work networks.Work anywhere with less effort.
- Instantly locate virtually any file, email, or document on your PC just by typing a word or two.
- Get around your PC faster with the improved taskbar.
- Open programs you use regularly in one click and files you use regularly in just two.
- Manage lots of open programs, documents, and browser windows easily with thumbnail and full-screen previews of open windows.
- Manage multiple email accounts, including Hotmail, Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo! Mail Plus, all in one place with one simple program.
- Get to the files, photos, and music on any PC with Windows 7 in the house from any other.
- Print to any printer in the house from any PC with Windows 7 in the house.
Safeguard your hard work.
- Windows Internet Explorer 8 helps keep your PC safer from malware and you safer from fraudulent websites designed to fool you into divulging private information.
Choose the Windows 7 Edition That Is Best For You
Features
Make the things you do every day easier with improved desktop navigation. Start programs faster and more easily, and quickly find the documents you use most often. Make your web experience faster, easier and safer than ever with Internet Explorer 8. Watch, pause, rewind, and record TV on your PC. Easily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup. Run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode. Connect to company networks easily and more securely with Domain Join. In addition to full-system Backup and Restore found in all editions, you can back up to a home or business network. Help protect data on your PC and portable storage devices against loss or theft with BitLocker. Work in the language of your choice and switch between any of 35 languages.
- Windows Internet Explorer 8 helps keep your PC safer from malware and you safer from fraudulent websites designed to fool you into divulging private information.
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Customers like the performance, ease of use, value, compatibility, speed and value of the software. For example, they mention that it performs very well, it's easy to install and an inexpensive upgrade. Some appreciate the compatibility and speed.
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Customers like the performance of the software. They say it works well with most of their software and is fully operational at that point. Some customers also mention that it works great on their MacBook Pro and looks even better when it's on their Thunderbolt. They also say that it runs great with zero crashes.
"...There were no problems installing or running. It is running well. The whole thing is running seamlessly between OS X (10.7.3) and Windows 7...." Read more
"...Worked perfectly, just took a little bit of footwork to get some drivers after that...." Read more
"...Update: June 2012. Built my computer and installed Win 7 Home OEM. Works great. No issues. Changed Motherboard and processor after 1 week...." Read more
"...just as if she were working on a pure Windows machine with no performance issues.]..." Read more
Customers find the software easy to use. They say it's easy to install, and the process is a breeze. Some say the software loads up perfectly and has zero learning curve.
"...There were no problems installing or running. It is running well. The whole thing is running seamlessly between OS X (10.7.3) and Windows 7...." Read more
"...Installation of Windows 7 64-bit is quick and nearly foolproof with one caveat: There is something called UEFI that can stop Windows installation..." Read more
"...No problems at all with authenticating and re-authenticating (but obviously, no changes in hardware)...." Read more
"...I had no problems with activation and I have since upgraded the RAM and Hard drive so I am sure that it will work with hardware changes as long as..." Read more
Customers appreciate the value of the software. They say it's an easy and affordable option, and a valid full install of Windows 7 Home. Customers also mention that it'll provide a free media center and gaming.
"...It's much cheaper and does the same as the retail version excluding the ability to install on multiple machines." Read more
"...However, it's half the price of a regular Win7 version, so completely worth it if you really only need it for installing Windows..." Read more
"...This is well worth the money." Read more
"...Pros: very, very nice yet affordable..." Read more
Customers like the compatibility of the software. They mention that Windows 7 is a good system, the best operating system they have tried so far, and an excellent choice for home computers. Some say that Vista was okay, but some find some of the reorganized features annoying. Overall, most are satisfied with the compatibilities and say they haven't experienced any problems yet.
"...This software easily installed under Parallels and I have never had a compatibility problem running any of my PC apps in that environment...." Read more
"...Vista was OK, though I found some of the reorganized features confusing to deal with for a while...." Read more
"...To me, I find it amazing and impressive to see how beautiful windows works on an iMac...." Read more
"...OS for business and home office use, zero learning curve, and hardware comparability...." Read more
Customers like the speed of the software. They say that it's faster and more responsive than other operating systems. They also mention that the boot time is quite fast, installing programs were quick, and the response is quick. The up time on all computers is solid. The SP1 included this will also save you a substantial amount of time updating after the initial install, and it saves time and frustration.
"...This laptop, with Windows 7 installed from scratch, is so much faster and more responsive than it was when I first picked it up from the store...." Read more
"...It went fast and easy on a new blank HDD and since I didn't want to connect it to my home network before I moved it to my son's place, I decided to..." Read more
"...This OS is fast and smooth and system management/maintenance is a dream..." Read more
"...you don't get any messy adware to go along with it, which saves time and frustration as well as speeding up your system like never before..." Read more
Customers find the stability of the software to be solid, reliable, and fast. They also say it works great without any crashes and is glitch-free.
"...And this is a better OS. It is faster and just as reliable as my beloved XP...." Read more
"...Other items on the plus ledger: improved stability, gorgeous themes, decent compatibility with older software (in my experience), better efficiency,..." Read more
"...It's so fast, so solid. It's what a modern operating system should be...." Read more
"...It's good-looking, stable, and works the way I want it to. Come to think of it...it's kinda like XP under the hood with updated Vista paint." Read more
Customers are mixed about the quality of the software. Some mention it's better than Vista and its predecessors, and a great piece of software. However, others say that it'll be a complete disaster and an inferior product.
"...This OS is fast and smooth and system management/maintenance is a dream..." Read more
"...it got to 20 percant and I got an error message , tried it on another hardrive I had in my pc case which I had unplugged , a western digital hard..." Read more
"...It was quick, simple and did not break anything in my Windows 7 environment...." Read more
"...Vista should have been Win7, but wasn't. Win8.1 has broken IE11 useability and other Windows functions - it appears to a train wreck in progress...." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the authenticity of the software. They mention that the copy of Windows is not genuine, the systems say it's not genuine and that the disk is probably fraudulent.
"...a "non genuine" copy of Windows 7, and that my disk was probably fraudulent...." Read more
"...from June of 2013 but now Microsoft is telling me this is NOT A LEGAL COPY of the product...." Read more
"...swap out enough components to generate a hash conflict, and encounter trouble validating, simply call MS and they will fix the problem...." Read more
"...What can you say, it's a complete, genuine, fully legal, valid, full install of Windows 7 Home Premium...." Read more
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Windows 7 allows you 30 days to activate your installation. I don't know what happens after that, but it's not the end of the world, as you can just re-install from the DVD-R and re-activate. When I came home from my business transfer, I opened up my mailbox, read the key inside the Microsoft Windows 7 box, and activated my installation. If you use this technique, just make sure that what you downloaded from Digital River matches what you ordered from Amazon (Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit with SP1).
Also be aware that sometimes the Repair Windows function does not work when booting from the DVD-R, if you ever have to repair your installation as the result of a corrupt file or a hard drive glitch. I think this has more to do with the 64-bit aspect than with the DVD-R aspect. Each time I've had to repair 64-bit Windows 7, I've had to use the factory 32-bit Windows 7 disk to do the repair. Neither the factory 64-bit Windows 7 DVD, nor my 64-bit Windows 7 DVD-R, would do the repair. They both would report something like, "This is the wrong version of Windows" - even though they were the same version as what was on the computer. Go figure.
I love this OS. I installed it as a second partition on my company ThinkPad. I also installed another copy to remove all of the assorted fluff and spyware installed from the factory on my Acer laptop. I installed a third copy on my aunt and uncle's desktop computer in their guest room. For all three installations, I used the same exact DVD-R, burned from the Digital River Windows 7 64-bit SP1 ISO file. All that matters is the KEY. Each installation must have its own key. (The exception is if you buy a 3-pack license, then you can have the same key on three computers.) For my Acer, which did not come with any Windows 7 setup disks, I found the key on the bottom of the laptop. You can also use a program called Belarc to find your key, if you don't know what it is. However, in my case, the key that was on the bottom of the laptop was not the same key that Belarc Advisor reported to me. I tried both keys, and the one Belarc reported did not work, whereas the one on the bottom of the laptop did. I don't know why the laptop has two Windows keys. Does anyone know the reason? Is one the OEM key, and the other is the end user key?
For my aunt and uncle's desktop, I used the key that was in their 3-pack license. Windows doesn't seem to care which DVD you use as long as the Windows on the DVD matches the Windows that the key was purchased for. I used the DVD-R that I burned, not the DVD included in their 3-pack license box. All that mattered was the key. If you want to switch the key to another computer, then you can call Microsoft Customer Service and explain what you're doing. I've never had to do this, so I don't know how easy or how difficult it is.
Installation of Windows 7 64-bit is quick and nearly foolproof with one caveat: There is something called UEFI that can stop Windows installation in its tracks. This is some kind of new BIOS that will replace the existing BIOS technology. I learned, just by luck, that if I wait an extra second while the DVD is trying to boot, there is a second, nearly identical message that pops up, also saying, Press any key to boot from the DVD, just like the first message. The only difference is that the font changes. The trick is to ignore the first menu (which is UEFI) and wait for the second one (which is the normal BIOS). Otherwise, if you hit the space bar too quickly and enter the first menu, you will see something like this:
Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks.
If you see this message, reboot and wait for the "secret second menu", or if possible, go into your BIOS and modify the boot order to put UEFI further down in the list.
Windows 7 has some annoying flaws with WiFi ad hoc networking, namely, that Windows sometimes loses or cannot identify other computers in the network, but its WiFi ad hoc networking is far superior to Windows XP's. Windows 8 doesn't include ad hoc WiFi networking anymore, from what I've heard. I also sometimes have difficulty with permissions, so that when I try to access a shared folder on another Windows 7 computer (belonging to a family member, with a different username), a login box pops up, and even when I enter in the other user's login and password, Windows still won't let me access the shared folder. This apparently has something to do with having different user profiles on each computer, with different usernames and passwords. Whenever I set up networking between my own Windows 7 laptops, with identical usernames and passwords set up on each, the networking works beautifully.
This laptop, with Windows 7 installed from scratch, is so much faster and more responsive than it was when I first picked it up from the store. Windows 8's interface is, in my opinion, unkempt and not well integrated. I'm sure there are great advances underneath Windows 8's interface, but as long as they have that unwieldy interface, I see no reason to upgrade. I've spent YEARS coming up with a collection of applications that work well together and with their OS. Now I have work to do. I'm not about to turn my life upside-down again.
Amazon has the best price I found anywhere, and the first reviews I read were from Mac users so I knew I had come to the right place. Word to the wise if you have a newer Mac installing Windows 7 with Bootcamp should be a breeze, however if you have a Mac that is a couple of years old like mine be prepared. Print out the Bootcamp instructions you will need them. My hard drive has been replaced so I had to reformat my partition by using the OS X install disk that came with my computer.
That meant I saved everything on my computer to an external HD.(which you would do anyway) Then you completely erase your HD and reformat the partition. After that you use time machine and your saved info to reinstall everything on your HD. The point is it has taken me two days so far and I am still downloading updates. Another thing don't update Bootcamp until you get the windows installed. When you do start updating I would get the Apple updates before the Windows updates because if you have a Magic Mouse it will not work very well until you update.
I also debated on how much memory to set for the windows partition. I set it at 70GB, but windows seems to be a memory hog and you might want to try 100GB. I am very thankful that I got the install to work, but I would never trade my Mac for a PC.
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I tried a new graphics card, but that made no difference. I was about to order a new £1K PC, when I saw the OEM version of Windows 7 64-bit on Amazon. I thought I'd have a go at installing the new OS and see if it made any difference. If it didn't, I thought that at least it would make the machine more usable for handing on to my sister. I knew that I'd be able to address the full installed 4Gb RAM, and thought that I might get some other minor speed gains.
I was a bit worried about using an OEM version, but I needn't have, it installed quickly and easily, without any problems. The last time I installed a Windows OS was Windows 2000, and that was quite a faff. Installing Windows 7 couldn't have been easier, with nice simple GUIs to partition and format the drives etc. You no longer need to be a mega-geek to install! It was also much quicker than I expected to install.
I'm amazed at how much faster my machine is running now, it's like having a brand new PC! It seems that Vista 32 was only getting about half the performance from the hardware. It boots much faster, and start up doesn't freeze you out for minutes like it did in Vista. I use Win7 at work, and put the performance down to a newer spec machine. I knew that Vista was slow, but not that slow.
Anyway, CS6 ACR is now very usable, with only a hint of lag in some operations.
My Windows Experience scores before and after show the gain in performance across the board:
Vista-32
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Processor 5.9
RAM 4.4
Graphics 5.9
Gaming 5.5
HDD 5.7
Win7-64
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Processor 7.1
RAM 7.1
Graphics 6.7
Gaming 6.7
HDD 5.8
The RAM speed in particular is much faster. I can now add another 4Gb of RAM to feed the memory-hungry Photoshop!
In summary, £70 well spent to save having to fork out £1000 for a new PC.
Now the not so good stuff. This disc was meant to be new I always check my discs when I get them mainly looking at the shiny side and 99% of discs are spotless. This one however was clearly marked all over the disc and although they are not gouge marks or scratches its how a disc would look after numerous uses in a cd/dvd player.
Also I used the installation code that came with the disc (stuck to the plastic sleeve) and it allowed me to install windows 7 but when windows auto activated online I was told this code was invalid and I had to go through the lengthily process of activating over the phone.(ive done this before and trust me it takes time)
So although it worked first time im not sure I will buy from here again.
