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Hello! I got an old Windows 7 pc (the HP Pavilion p7-1027c, specifically), and I'm using it as a sort of practice rig to tinker with and try to upgrade. I bought a GTX 680 for it from ebay, because from what I've read the 600 series was the last generation to naturally run on legacy bios systems. I seated it and booted the pc, and it came right on with the weird aspect ratio thing that one would expect with a new gpu that hasn't had its drivers installed yet. So, I'm assuming the card works. Anyway, when I try to install the drivers for this card, I get this error: "the procedure entry point setdefaultdlldirectories could not be located kernel32.dll" I'm unable to install the driver, and I get the same error when I try to install and open Geforce Experience. Does anyone have any ideas that can help me? Again, this is all a learning experience for me so I'm not super tech savvy. Please explain things in layman's terms if possible lol. My searches so far have led me to attempt a Windows update, which the pc does not want to do on its own. I found a link to manually install a security update from 2018 which should have updated the file version of my kernel32.dll file, but it didn't. Please help. Thanks, y'all!

Hopefully I'm posting this in the right forum. If anyone might have a possible idea of what might be going on with my desktop, please let me know. Any help is appreciated! I'll make a list down below of the parts I have in my PC, if those are of any help too. And thank you ahead of time for taking the time to read my post! If I need to attach video files of what my PC shows, let me know and I'll upload them to my MediaFire account since I'm pretty sure the file size will go over the 20 MB max on here. Basically, today, I got on my desktop as normal and noticed that in the Action Center on Windows 7, I believe I remember it saying that there were some errors with the drive not being able to start up correctly, so I went ahead and clicked on it to try and fix them. After that, I rebooted my computer to finalize the fix. (I'd like to say this before hand that I build this computer 8 years ago in December 2015 and have upgraded the CPU, GPU, RAM, and added a 2nd HDD for dual-booting to Windows 10. I'm aware Windows 7 is not longer supported and that at this point most of my parts are old, discontinued, or etc., but I want to be able to back up as much of my stuff as possible before it finally gives up the ghost. I was already planning on building a new desktop next year and was going to future proof it, but I wasn't planning on starting yet.) When I restarted it, I chose Windows 7 as normal, and it showed the start up logo still like normal, but it didn't load my login screen after 3 - 4 seconds like it normally does. I waited a few more seconds then shut it down and restarted again. After I chose Windows 7 it asked me if I wanted to do a start up repair (recommended) or start it up like normal. I chose start up repair. Here, I did 2 different things: Start up repair (which didn't work) and System Restore (which didn't work either). When I did do the System Restore, Windows 7 did say that there was a critical update to Windows Update, which I never gave my PC permission to do. After that, I tried loading up Windows 10 to see if I could access my Windows 7 drive from there. (Sometimes when I start up Windows 10, since I don't use it as often because it's slow, it will want to do a disk check. I allowed it to do the disk check this time.) After the disk check was finished, it restarted and just showed a black screen. I attempted to restart my PC and load Windows 10 again, but it showed the Windows 10 logo again and then the screen went black again. Here's the parts I have currently in my desktop: Motherboard: ASUS B85M-G R2.0 LGA 1150 Intel B85 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard RAM: 4 x 8 GB PNY 1.6GHz DDR3 Memory CPU: Intel i5-4590 3.30 GHz (Model: BX80646I54590) Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart Standard 650W 80 PLUS Bronze ATX12V 2.3 Power Supply SP-650P Graphics Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1650 Super Gaming X / 4GB GDDR6 Storage #1: WD Blue 2TB HDD (Windows 7) Storage #2: WB Black 2TB HDD (Windows 10)

Budget (including currency): Not yet sure, somewhere around $2000 USD Country: United States of America Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Half-Life 2 and related (potentially heavier) games like Garry's Mod or Team Fortress 2, Phantasy Star Online 2, Black Desert Online, many older games, 3d rendering on the CPU (Blender Internal, POV-ray - this is less important) and GPU (Blender Cycles, Cinema 4D), heavy source code editing and compilation (Linux from Scratch, Android ROMs) Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I need out-of-the-box driver support for Windows 7/8.1 (for gaming and legacy software) and Fedora Linux (for 3d rendering/non-Windows & non-macOS code editing and compilation). I plan to use the three hard drives from my previous build (1x NVMe SSD with 1000GB, 1x NVMe HDD with 1000GB, 1x SATA SSD with 500GB): one for Windows, one for Linux, and one for large volumes of irreplaceable data. I am aware that the latest series of graphics cards is incompatible with Windows 7, so I'm going to use the previous generation of AMD Radeon RX cards (in part due to their RHEL support, making getting drivers for Fedora Linux easier). I have 4k@60, 1440@75p, and 1080@60p monitors available, though I want to play games at 1440p with at least 60 FPS. I am unsure of how much RAM I need these days for the tasks I want to do, but my previous setup from 2019 worked fine with 16GB.

I want to build a PC which will run Windows 7/8.1 without issues, with stable 60FPS performance on most games from 2014 or earlier on high graphics settings. Could anyone recommend components which are compatible with each other, have good performance, and have Windows 7/8.1 driver support? Windows XP support is preferred but not necessary.

Hi guys, Can anybody help me with installing windows 7 to my new PC. MOBO: Asus Prime H410M-K CPU: Intel i3-10100 I already did everything i could think of a solution but still it's not working. I'm in dire need of help. Thank you

So i was trying to replace my default Windows 10 wallpaper with some random cool looking one or idk , so then i tried to find something good but then i remembered why im still using the default wallpapers , i dont find atractive any wallpaper at all. So then I remembered that it has been literally years since i last saw the Windows 7 wallpaper , one of my personal favorites. So i tried to look for a good quality one , but i dont know why but its not that easy as i expected to find a decent looking one (i mean like a good 1080p with barely no noise or something like that) So i also remembered that i know how to use an ilustration program that lets me tecnically recreate everything i want , like literally draw it form 0 , and well i also was bored so.. I just downloaded a random official win7 wallpaper to give me as refrence to begin with the process of recreating it. So i began , took me around 4 hours , but i did it , and im really satisfied with the results. Official one. My version. btw heres a link to the maximum quality photo or just save it as a link or idk. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/754804338995494923/1112603428758237224/Win7_Wallpaper.png So tell me , what do guys think?

Hi, I wanted to upgrade my windows 7 to windows 10. Kindly let me know how to do it. This is the first time I am doing a windows upgrade. What are the requirements for upgrading it? Will my data stored in pc be deleted? Is it possible to download windows 10 without purchasing or have an unactivated windows? If yes , then how? Thanks in advance.

I am trying to reinstall Windows 7 onto a new HDD for a friend's Dell XPS 15Z laptop, and I have been have major difficulty finding the correct ISO files for this model. It is for a Dell XPS 15Z (X16-96072). Anyone with ISO files for this specific model would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hello there I've recently started experiencing this issue where my computer seems to forget one of my harddrives is connected. If I do a rescan devices in the Disk Management program, the drive will appear again and work temporarily, but might disappear again after a while. I haven't recognized a pattern as to when this happens. The computer and harddrive in question are roughly 6 or 7 years old with as much use as you'd expect from a gamer/enthusiast - heavy use. A few hours a day everyday with a lot of read/writes to the harddrive (downloading/using: games, movies, music, shows, programs/work, etc). this harddrive is literally my "everything but the OS" drive. The HDD is a WD Black 2TB (i can get exact model number if requested). I am running windows 7 on this pc. here is a youtube video i made that shows you the problem as I see it: if you need more details that will help solve this issue, I will gladly provide.

I have an SSD and a HDD on my system. The SSD runs windows 7, the HDD runs windows 10. A couple of days ago, I was using win10 and it installed an update. When I booted my pc the next day, trying to boot into win7, I got the black screen of death. The screen is totally black, except for the cursor. This screen appears instead of the login screen and I can't bring up the task manager in any way. Booting win 7 into safe mode (any of the 3) results in the same black screen of death. Low-resolution video and Last Known Good Configuration all result in the same black screen of death. I can boot into win10 without any problems, but it says that I don't have permission to access the SSD. What should I do?

I downloaded the drivers for my chipset, b450 on the windows 7 hard drive and there is still no input. My keyboard isn’t getting power because the rgb turns on when there is power.

Last month, I needed to use my father's laptop to do online school. I realised some of the programs i need wasnt supported on windows 7. So I switch to Windows 10 but it was sooo slow, booting up will take 5mins and opening browser will somtimes even crash the pc. My little brother gave me this awesome idea to use linux, and i never regretted it all my programs run smoothly. But there was one issue I may have screwed up the deleting process of windows 10 every time i turn on my pc G-rub will show up and i would choose manjaro or windows7 but when i choose windows 7 there will be a blue screen and i have to press F9 boot to windows 7. This is extremely annoying and i want it gone. Thank you for reading this very messy text. U attached an image of the blue screen.

Good day guys! I'm a first timer here, so technically my first post. Okay, so I've got me an old HP-1000 AMD E1-1200 with ATI HD 7310 laptop with 2 gigs of ram with OLD HDD which I believe is from, 2010(?). It came with windows 7 out of the box. I use it mainly for office work and unfortunately, got too slow due to various reasons. Last few days, I got an A400 240gb kingston ssd and a 4gb DDR3L sodimm ram, and decided to upgrade it. Of course I'm not expecting monumental improvements, but I want it to be at least more responsive. So i'm choosing an O.S now. 7 - not available anymore. (Can u guys provide a link if you would suggest it) 8.1 - tried it, but didn't stay long. 10 - currently using, still kinda slow. *Even with a fresh install of windows, chrome opens 3 to 4 seconds after you click it. TL;DR. - Need help choosing the optimal O.S for an old AMD E1-1200 with ATI HD 7310 laptop(2010) with 6 gigs of ram and an a400 kingston ssd - where can I get windows 7 ultimate? Thank you!!!

Hi, i recently updated my 11 year old pc from Windows 7 Professional 64 bit to Windows 10 Professional 64 bit, but as soon as i updated , i realized that my pc wasnt connected to the internet. I started with the usual, check if the network adapters are plugged in, yes. Replug the network adapter Restart the PC Unplug and plug in the PC None of these worked, so i went deeper. Troubleshooting - It told me that my 2 network drivers are broken, it hit me, i need to update my drivers and it will be done, right? Well, i went to TP-Link s website and downloaded the newest drivers to a usb, then unzipped them at my PC installed them and.... Still no internet. I used troubleshoot again and guess what? Even with the latest drivers for the correct models (i use a TP Link Powerline adapter, and a wifi adapter for spare) it still told me that my drivers are broken. So i tought, If my drivers are broken , i can just directly connect the PC to my modem/router, simple right? Haha. No internet. Not even connected. I went trough forums searching for a similar issue , no avail. I tried resetting the network settings, completely removing the old drivers and re installing the new ones, i even found the latest version of the Realtek PCIe GBE family adapters driver but no nothing. What is wrong? PC Full specs: i7 2600 Nvidia GeForce GT530 1x 4gb ddr3 1333mhz 1x 2gb ddr3 1333mhz 300w generic oem PSU 1 TB Hard drive IPIS-CH Mobo Windows 10 Pro 64 bit (current) Windows 7 Pro 64 bit (former)

Hello there! I want to dual boot Windows 10 with 7 (10 being already preinstalled) but every time I get to the Starting Windows screen with the glowing Windows 7 logo in setup it stops there, I searched how to fix this and it turns out I have to put in the BIOS boot mode from UEFI to Legacy, if I do that will my data and partitions be deleted, will Windows 10 still work? (And YES I know that Windows 7 is old and it dosen't get security updates anymore, I am planning to install Bitdefender on Windows 7 + some other security extensions for browsers. )

So I'm working on a project right now... I've got a "spare" computer that I am working on installing older versions of Windows on. Currently, I have (working) copies for Windows 11, Windows 7, and Windows XP Professional installed. All are x64 copies. After installing XP, the computer will either boot to A: A older Windows boot loader (not the newer blue-screened one from Windows 10) that gives the option to boot from Windows 7 or 11 B: Boots to Windows XP only Since drives can only be created with a maximum of 4 partitions, Windows 7 and Windows 11 are housed on an SSD (1 EFI partition, 1 System Partition, 1 Windows 11 OS partition, 1 Windows 7 OS partition) and the XP install is housed on a separate partition on a HDD. I know that is likely the issue (Bootloader for 7 and 11 wont read off 2 different drives), since it wants to boot off one drive or the other. The order of which they were installed was: Windows 11, then 7, then XP. I realize now that it might have made sense to do that in the reverse order, but oh well... My question is, what should I do to make the bootloader show all three Windows versions and ensure it boots to the loader? Surely there is some way it can show the operating systems on multiple drives in the bootloader... or maybe the default windows bootloader can't read XP? I have looked at installing a boot loader such as rEFInd, but I can't seem to find a (safe) file download for that... I've heard that older versions of Windows have compatibility issues with other loaders like GRUB (maybe I am wrong), so I am looking for something that is compatible. Would love any help y'all can offer! To get this out of the way, since I know some are going to ask: yes, I know that VMs are likely a more reliable solution. However, this is a project primarily for fun (and running older software) so I am not interested in VMs since this is not my main PC and I prefer running it fully off the physical hardware.

There are some old Printer that the Printer provider doesn't provide new OS (Windows 10/11) but try using Virtual Box to bypass the problem. Thanks

Long story short. In October my motherboard had problems, repaired by ASUS. I bought new ram in October one stick bad, got it replaced. Because of both problems I ended up F-disking my system since I assumed it was a windows problem. Here is where I stand. Windows 10 uses the Windows 7 Backup feature. I am having error code 0x800700E1 I ran SCM fixed something. Unknown I ran DISM, found flaws and fixed. I ran the hard drive though a load of tests via Seagate, it passes them all. Secondary information the system does the 'real time' backups to this hard drive, but I suspect with the fixes above it won't be an issue.

Hi everyone I'm having trouble with my computer It has a Q6600 with 8GB RAM and an HD 5850 Everything works until I install the gpu drivers After I install the drivers, Windows loads up, shows me the splash screen And then absolutely nothing, just a black screen. The fans in my pc also ramp up. I've used multiple different drivers through safe mode (of course I used DDU ) and reinstalled windows a few times but it makes no difference. I'm going crazy here, I don't understand why it's not working. It would be awesome if someone could help me. Thanks in advance

Hi everyone one Recently i clean install windows 7 in laptop after complet installation and complete ghe boot than i transfer hdd to windows 10 desktop to restore previous data after done copying again drive transfered to laptop but showing empty in drive but in partitions are filled with data but after opening partitions it's shows empty!! Also after re connect that drive to windows 10 oc everything is alright all data is there no empty Any solution for that It's showing empty in win 7 with filled data in it

I have this old Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit PC that I want to update to the latest version of Windows 7. Windows Update doesn't work anymore and it gives a Code 80072EFE error when I try to check for updates. For all I know it has never been updated since 2011(When this machine was setup) because it says "Updates were installed: Never" and I'm not even sure if it's a legit copy of Windows at this point and that worries me a bit. It does say Windows is activated though, I think it uses a Volume License key, but the store sold the prebuilt as a individual system Is it possible to update this machine using a bootable USB? If it is possible, how? And to roll it back to a restore point just in case. I did something similar to a Windows 10 machine that wouldn't update, but Microsoft's Media Creation Tool basically did that for me. Will this method from howtogeek work? The problem is the "Downoad and Install SP1 Separately" link that direct to Microsoft's site no longer work, does anyone have an alternate link? Is there a different method I don't know of? I know it's easier to do a clean install but this machine has different old programs and data still in use, and yes, I keep constant backups using AOMEI because I expect it to fail. I'm just trying to prolong it as much as possible before it gets a replacement. To sum it up: What method to use to update a possibly not legit copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit?

Alright, if it wasn't one thing to make me mad its another... so here I am again. I have recently dual booted Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 10 Pro on separate drives and everything has gone good, I installed display drivers - work perfect. HOWEVER. Wireless drivers.. I have NEVER dealt with more issues in a computer than my toshiba. I know the wireless works in the laptop because the whole thing used to run Windows 7 up until not even 5 months ago so I KNOW it works. So, I thought "Oh, I'll just install it off the Toshiba (dynabook) website on another computer, transfer the driver over and it should work!" Well, when I attempted to install it, it extracts and then doesn't do anything else or open anything. I rebooted and still no driver, no internet. I tried intels pro wireless for Windows 7, and to no avail, only now I can't uninstall it, YAY. "Exception, value cannot be null" - thanks intel. So, I'm left with basically nothing left to try, and aggravated (sorry for the rant at the beginning). Any help would be appreciated. Laptop Info: Toshiba Satellite P75-A7100 8GB RAM Intel i7 4700MQ The wireless on Windows 10 lists Intel Centrino Wireless N2230 as the wireless. Yes internet on Windows 10 works, just not on the 7 Hard drive.