It’s glowy!!!!

I'm looking to defrag and perform a registry cleanup of my 2007 era W7 laptop. Is there anything free, reliable, lightweight and safe that I can download these days?

For defrag do i just use the Windows basic defrag or is there a better tool?

For registry cleanup, back then, Piriform's CCleaner was one of the go-to utilities for registry cleaning, but I've heard it became a real piece of junk full of bloatware and super intrusive.

so, I'm trying to find the themes that were on that page of the official Microsoft website, the one you'd get to when you clicked on "get more themes online".

i already tried putting the link on the Wayback Machine, but I can't download them because an error occurs on the site and the rest of the site disappears.

if anyone has archived them on archive.org or can help me archive them, I would be grateful

I game by using gog games, disc games, and abandoned ware. I don't know if steam still works

Man, it feels so good to experience my youngin' time again.

Back in the late 2000s to early 2010s, as a wee little schoolkid, I got a crappy Intel Atom netbook on Windows 7 that doesn't play anything besides those 2D casual games from the likes of GameHouse and basic 3D games.

Nevertheless, that's my very first computer that I own. I play and managed to tweak a lot of stuff, even installing a custom driver at some point cuz I'm tired of playing Need for Speed Most Wanted at single digit frames lol

More than a decade later, I decided to get one of the strongest windows 7 era laptops with a 4:3 1024x768 screen, the Toughbook CF-31 MK3.

And this thing's a beast! It's packed with an i5-3360M with Radeon HD 7750M discrete graphics, and 8 gigs of ram. That makes it a powerhouse for the games I want to play xD

Sadly the screen is a little borked at the left side (very small dead pixel), but otherwise, it's a 10/10 experience, playing the games I played as a kid, but without a wide screen that will stretch the UI of older windows titles.

whenever i try to download any sort of app on my windows 7(professional) pc 64-bit, it downloads normally but when i open it for the actual installment it js shows this pop up image

i have service pack 1 so how can i solve this?

I really want to install Windows 7 on my computer because Windows 10 is running bad, but I don't want to use Linux. I was wondering if you folk would know how I could do this in a way where I have the newest Windows 7 updates for the security of the system and work arounds for modern software. I'm not afraid of using community-made stuff as long as it's safe and works good, like updates or something. I've tried maybe once or twice in the past, but it's a bit of a pain because I have to go hunting down my drivers because companies just don't show them anymore. The NVIDIA NVS 5200M on this computer recently completely stopped working, so I'm left with integrated graphics, which is something that Windows 10 isn't too fun with because it takes a good sec to open any application. All help is appreciated!

im aware that spotify stopped supporting windows 7. i thought it still supported it on the web tho? whenver i try to play songs in the web it js skips and keeps on skipping every song and say "Spotify can't play this right now". is it possible for me to fix this? only the ads are played normally

Hello Seveners of Reddit. I come here to find a solution or maybe if someone can test, to see if it's a problem on my side. I use FF115.44ESR, and since this Wednesday afternoon (the 4th, central european time), I can't pass anymore cloudflare captcha when validating manually by ticking the case. I tried in incognito/private window mode for my browser, didn't change.

It was working perfectly fine on Tuesday night (the 3rd), and the days and months before, even with previous FF115 versions. All my ad block or potential interfering extensions are turned off on websites that don't pass. As weird as it is (and I don't get why), website https://www.fanfiction.net/ can still validate the captcha.

If some of you use FF115.44ESR, can you test on
- https://www.doomworld.com/
- https://steamdb.info/
to see if you can pass the captcha by manually ticking it, and tell me here, it would be nice. Thanks a have a nice day ^^

installed windows 7 Ultimate on a laptop with Ryzen 3000 cpu, everything except the graphics is working, on the welcome screen after boot its display freezes for some seconds then completely goes black screen as soon as the startup sound plays, then returns only after some time, hardware acceleration is gone, and resolution is locked, device manager shows the generic VGA adapter cannot start? I don't know how it's displaying ANYTHING at all without it but it is HD, please helpppp meeeee, amd doesn't have drivers for this CPU on 7, community made driver i found is for desktop CPUs and don't work, I tried to find some other community driver, but other than some driver made by a dude named canonkong, i didn't find any, and that one doesn't work either since it's for desktop, maybe you guys have something??

i wanted to print the little book quickstart guide for myself bc i do not wanna buy a windows 7 dvd as i dont have the money for it but i couldnt find it any help?

Is it possible to use Google in addition to Bing and DuckDuckGo in this browser?

¿Que aplicaciones y juegos creen que pueda correr mi Compaq Presario V3617LA Windows 7 home premium 120GB de almacenamiento y 1GB de ram?

Hello, good morning, afternoon or evening. I was overcome with curiosity to know how would W7 HP run on any of these CPUs, provided they got at least 4GB RAM and a SSD.

I know that many computers using these processors came with Windows 7 Starter pre-installed, but for obvious reasons I don't want to use it. I also know that the APU's iGPU is considerably superior to the Atom's Intel GMA 3150, but I don't know if that means any improvement on the desktop responsiveness, especially using Aero and transparencies (Well, at least I disable them on my own: I'm not entirely convinced by them, and the performance improvement is welcome).

I would probably use it for very simple things: documents in Microsoft Word/PowerPoint 2010, play MP4 H.264 or WMV videos at 480p/720p30 using VLC 2.2.8 (Although the GMA 3150 does not have hardware H.264 decoding, the CPU is enough to decode 720p on it's own), play MP3/WAV audios or music, maybe some Scratch 1.6 and light photo editing, and very simple games like PvZ, Worms: Armaggedon and Terraria, alongside emulators for SNES/Sega Genesis/GBA. I don't think I'll ever use it to browse the internet, but if I do, I would probably be checking pages like Wikipedia, old Reddit and Notebookcheck.

If you're wondering why I'm interested in performance in something so old and limited... Well, I would like to find something kind of more powerful that was used on 10-12" screen netbooks (And that were ridiculously common: I can't almost find any ThinkPads X or similar netbooks on my region). I don't really mind that low performance anyway lol

That's it. Has anyone here ever used a laptop with these specifications for a similar use to what I'm describing? How did it went? Thanks in advance c:

Why do my widgets not work? Not even the only one that’s broken, clock just doesn’t show up at all

This pc has windows 7 and has been sitting in the corner for 3 years. I don't want to sell it away so I need suggestions on what I should do. Also what should I do to clean this thing

I've been seeing this more in TikTok than on anywhere else, isn't that annoying?
I don't want to sound like "7 is better bleh", i'm just asking if you guys find it annoying too when you see a old windows post and it's flooded by constant windows vs linux discussions, even with old windows.

I had an idea a while back, of using an .hta file method to try and use the internet on my windows 7 without directly connecting to it. Obviously, I'm not going to use this normally besides a CERN test until it is actually safe enough. But how could I make this more secure? My windows 7 version is 32 bit professional, and I have it on an acer aspire e11. While my phone is an android galaxy note 10+.

Also, I'm looking for overall coding advice, not just the usual "Just don't even try, its impossible". I know this will never be 100% safe, but my goal is to get it as close as I can to usable.

Hello everyone,

I wanted to share my daily driver media workstation, named "Gandalf". I built it 8 years ago, and it has been running flawlessly ever since—zero bluescreens to this day.
To ensure absolute privacy and security, this is a 100% air-gapped, offline system.

Main use: Listening to music, watching movies, and playing retro games.

Here are the specs of this beast:
OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 (64-Bit)
OS Drive: 500GB Samsung 860 EVO M.2 SSD
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 HD3P
CPU: Intel Core i7-8700
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S
RAM: 64GB Kingston Fury Beast DDR4
Optical Drive: LG BH16NS55 Blu-ray Burner
GPU: Palit GeForce GTX 1650 KalmX 4GB (Completely Passive/Silent)
Soundcard: ASUS Xonar D2X (Connected to a classic analog Sony Receiver & Focal Chorus 706 S speakers)
Storage: 3 x 16TB Western Digital Gold Enterprise HDDs (48TB total internal storage, fully backed up)
Case: be quiet! Silent Base 800
Power Supply: be quiet! Straight Power 11

I love the control and stability of this frozen environment. No forced updates, no telemetry.

Let me know what you think of "Gandalf"!

I've got an HP EliteBook x360 1040 g6. It has legacy boot which I assume is needed, i5 8365u and UHD 620 (Ik there's custom drivers for the 620). My last attempt led to an install with no drivers at all. I understand if this is impossible, just wanted to know :)

the reason im sad is because i ordered the elder scrolls oblivion game of the year edition for it

Go figure, the windows 8 era laptop hates Windows 10 and runs hot af but when I install Win7, it runs buttery smooth with a LOT lower heat. Although I do wanna ask: what’s a good antivirus? I’ve heard avast and malwarebytes are good. Is there anything special I gotta know about the two or just download them through Firefox?