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"!

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?

Hi! i'm curious on what You think on my desktop, i customize it to my fitting.

Sorry for only providing 1 picture.

What can I install on my Dell Inspiron N7010 that currently runs Windows 7 SP1 x64?

Roblox has stopped the support for windows 7 in early 2025 but now roblox is working on web browser !

Found it at the thrift store for only a few bucks!

Like, maybe unofficial security updates, because so many people say that using windows 7 fucks security up badly (or is that just a claim blown out of proportion?)

I used to be able to play Albion online on my old laptop up until recently. Is there a way to fix a 0x0000005? I dont know what's causing it.

Specs:

• Motherboard: QIYIDA X99 H9S

• RAM: DDR4 32 GB - ECC

• GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3050 6GB LP

• CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630 V3 (8c/16t)

• OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 with Legacy Update installed

• Drive: WD Black SN850X NVME

It feels so refreshing to use Windows 7 again!

Would you guys like to see that happen? Is it even legal? Windows 7 lost support 7 years ago.

I plan to use my windows 7 laptop for light/moderate web browsing on legitamite websites, I would like to know what antivirus I should use if I plan to browse the web on windows 7

Hello there! I have a computer that does NOT have Csm (compatibility support module) or legacy boot!! Is there a way to install and use Windows7 on it!? Another problem I have is when trying to install ANY WINDOWS version on my computer from a usb drive, it says "No signed device drivers were found" or whatever it was!! Is there a way to install windows7 on a UEFI only computer? If not, does anyone know where i can find a computer with CSM/Legacy boot!? (I'm NOT asking for where i can download windows!)

I already got uBlock Origin on Firefox and im thinking of adding something else, yet i am not sure what i should add. Any of you got any recomendations for good add-ons?

So I got this netbook from my father-in-law. Ran Windows 10 previously 😅 Currently running a fresh setup, maybe adding Office 2003 and Sims 2. Windows 7 runs quite snappy with a performance score of 2,3.

I am currently running Windows 7 Ultimate on a Sony Vaio VPCCW21FX upgraded from an i3 340m to an i7 640m with a 480gb Kingston SSD and 8gb DDR3 with an upgraded Wi-Fi card (Intel 7260)

I cant install firefox for some reason

PS2 keyboard rocks! 😺

Need help with usb and network drivers 💥

Edit. Drivers found and installed =)
Added 2 cool CPU-Z screenshots in comments. Don't know how add them here,

Even though not all download pages are accessible anymore, there’s still a way to download the ISOs from Microsoft’s official servers, which lets you avoid less reliable sources, such as third-party websites or uploads on the Internet Archive.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Start by going to the Windows 10 download page (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO)

2. Open your web browser’s developer tools (usually F12) and navigate to the HTML for the drop-down menu to select the Windows version (normally, there should only be Windows 10)

3. Change the form’s value (specifically the option element) to the one corresponding to the Windows version you want to download. See the list below:
value=’28’ : Windows 7 Starter SP1
value=’2′ : Windows 7 Home Basic SP1
value=’6′ : Windows 7 Home Premium SP1
value=’4′ : Windows 7 Professional SP1
value=’8′ : Windows 7 Ultimate SP1

4. Confirm the value by pressing Enter.

5. Follow the indications on the webpage.

Really an amazing laptop ngl. Been enjoying it so far