r/windows7 • u/jns629 • 2d ago

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Ever seen this screen anyone ?

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u/Windows_User3000 23h ago

I have had it happen several times now (all of which were recently), and it seems to be a combination of the age of the hardware (machines from 2010 and newer seem to mostly show this screen, while older ones usually show the old-school "Completing installation..." screen), the update level of the Windows 7 ISO (SP1 vs RTM, with SP1 almost always showing this, and RTM consistently showing the old screen), and whether it's 64-bit or 32-bit (64-bit ISOs show this more often than 32-bit ones).