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Files are extracted from the install media and copied to the current drive. If the user has picked to upgrade from a current install of Windows (e.g. Windows 7 to 10), the files and applications will be transferred. The system is restarted into a user setup (OOBE) where the user can make a new user and finish setting up Windows.
Windows 7 Professional and up support up to 2 physical processors (CPU sockets), [130] whereas Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic, and Home Premium editions support only 1. [131] Physical processors with either multiple cores, or hyper-threading, or both, implement more than one logical processor per physical processor. The x86 editions of Windows 7 ...
Windows 7, a major release of the Microsoft Windows operating system, has been released in several editions since its original release in 2009. Only Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate were widely available at retailers. [ 1 ] The other editions focus on other markets, such as the software development world or enterprise use.
Windows Ultimate Extras were optional features offered by Microsoft to users of the Ultimate edition of Windows Vista and are accessible via Windows Update. Ultimate Extras replaced the market role of Microsoft Plus!, a product sold for prior consumer releases of Microsoft Windows. [ 1] According to Microsoft's Barry Goffe, the company's goal ...
File backup to a network share (non-system image backup) is only available in Windows 7 Professional and above whereas it was included in Windows Vista Home Premium. Windows Import Video, a feature in Windows Vista which allowed one to import live or recorded video from a digital video camera and save it to the hard disk, has been removed. The ...
Windows Installer ( msiexec.exe, previously known as Microsoft Installer, [ 3] codename Darwin) [ 4][ 5] is a software component and application programming interface (API) of Microsoft Windows used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software. The installation information, and optionally the files themselves, are packaged in ...
Firefox. Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open source [ 12] web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. [ 13]
At the time of launch, Microsoft deemed Windows 7 (with Service Pack 1) and Windows 8.1 users eligible to upgrade to Windows 10 free of charge, so long as the upgrade took place within one year of Windows 10's initial release date. Windows RT and the respective Enterprise editions of Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 were excluded from this offer.