Have an old Compaq Presario CQ62 laptop that I just installed Windows 7 on. The wireless is not working so I suspect it is missing the driver. How do I know which driver to download for this? Thanks!

Im creating a guide with softwares compatiple and essentials to windows 7 on telegram, soon i will publish here the @

Don't be jealous of my mouse pad🥵🔥

Just a few things I tried:

1. The alt+f10 and the f8 method don't work for me.

2. There is no "factory reset" option in the advanced recovery options in the control panel.

PS. this is a super slow laptop, so I prefer resetting without a disk or whatever.

Hi all. I bought a tp link ac 1200 networking card but it doesn’t have a win7 driver. I suspect I am screwed and have to return it but I am hoping someone else may have already been down this road? Sadly they advertised it as win 7 compatible but it is not. The card shows up in the hardware or device itmanager but I can’t find a driver on their website or Realtek s site either. Is there somewhere else I should be looking for it?

Thanks in advance for your time.

Version number, if I know it, cuz sometimes later versions break Win7 compat. Only a few are recent releases like Icarus and Bounty Of One for example.

All Aboard

Astroneer 1.29.61

Avorion 2.4.2

Bounty Of One

Company Of Heroes 1 and 2(not latest update)

Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition

Fallout New Vegas

Fallout 4 GOTY

Mass Effect - Andromeda

Necesse

Planet Nomads

Quake Enhanced

Rimworld

Starsector

Stellaris 4.4.3

Surviving Mars (not Relaunched)

System Shock 2

Skyrim SE

The Long Dark

The Red Solstice 2 Survivors

Valheim 0.219

Icarus

Kingdom Come Deliverance

Project Zomboid v42 (early version, later versions break Win7 compat)

Other games not currently installed, but I've run them on Win7 before and sometimes I re-install them for a while.

Borderlands 1 and 2 and Pre-Sequel

DarkStone

Dread Templar

Diablo 2

Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity

Dysmantle

Easy Red 2

Empire Earth Gold Edition

Empyrion Galatic Survival

Enderal

Fallout 2 and 3

Grim Dawn Definitive Edition

Heroes OF Hammerwatch 2

Metro 2033 Redux and Last Light and Exodus Gold Edition

Planescape Torment

Prey

Running With Rifles

Sacred

Stoneshard

System Shock Remake

The Crust

Zompiercer

Morrowind and Oblivion (not remastered or whatever)

Mechcommander Gold and MCX

Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries

My rig is nothing to write home about. i7 2700K GTX980Ti 16GB

Decided to showcase my Windows 7 desktop that has been my main os for 2 days now.

Its been sitting here for 15 years without being turned on, I just found it, and now I have 47 updates to install in a place with no internet

I personally love the windows 7 classic theme look, it has a nice blend of windows 7 + classic windows taskbar as well. I used to have it applied all the time and i love the clean,simple look.
Unfortunately, i had to switch to windows 11, but i miss that theme. I have tried many tools and themes but none of them actually replicate the true windows 7 classic theme, and some that are somewhat close to "classic windows theme" have lots of performance related bugs.

Has anyone made a patch or something for this?

Now that Ai is advanced enough, I believe a person with right knowledge could achieve this.

Hey i'm new here, i got myself with this Samsung NP530U4E, i installed 6gb of ram and changed a broken SSD for a 1Tb HDD, and packed it with 7 professional, i read it was the Best version but i've seen there are some "2026 editions" that are compatible with modern programs, plus an OS upgrade with better security, are they real?, if so, how can i get them?. And, how can i get the complete drivers for this PC?, these are the only ones that appear with an error but i read i need more for the graphics and sound. Thank u

My High-End Windows 7 Laptop Acer Aspire Ethos 5943G with i7 has a damaged screen as of today. 2/3 of the screen flickers slightly (possibly the backlight) and then freezes for several seconds.

Even though this model is from 2010, I've bought it like new in 2025. As of it's new condition, I have always taken care of it. But I have to admit that I’ve slammed my laptop shut hard several times recently. But I think it would be hilarious if that was the only reason for it.

I prepare now moving to my Dell Studio XPS 16, which is slightly older, but nevertheless with a great performance.

I won't throw my Ethos 5943G away, because it's a super rare high end laptop which I love. I wait until I'll have the money to get this baby repaired.

So kinda after one turn off it all of a sudden just does this what do I do

I now have Linux mint installed but am wanting win 7 ultimate to be installed on it.

Any tips. On how to best do that.

What to change in bios to get it to actually start from usb or dvd rom?

I know where in the bios to change it to start from usb but am I missing somwthing. Getting an error conatantly when trying to start from usb or dvd rom.

I am trying to install windows 7 , pls any answers

Upgraded to W7 Ultimate a few months ago with an Anytime Upgrade key and was surprised when it worked. I heard that some older keys still work past the shutdown date but had no idea they still worked now.

Just thought this was interesting, and a short message to anyone who wants to upgrade their Windows 7 edition but doesn't want to Rufus a new Windows installation on to their PC.

Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11e (3rd Gen) touch screen laptop. I want the touch screen working, above all else.

I'm not sure drivers were even created with Win7 in mind for this machine, it came with Win8. The main question is do we know if Win7 would natively support a touch screen device?

I'd love to get Win8 off this thing but not if it's the only way to use the touch screen, obviously.

Thanks in advance!

Specs:

Intel Celeron N3150 (Braswell)

4GB DDR3 RAM

120GB SSD

Intel HD Graphics

And you can use your Google account to sync your bookmarks and extensions...

Been using firefox 115.42.0esr for the better part of this year but realize that lately some pages require a double refresh when loading the feed or the comment sections attached to certain forums, anybody else having this issue?

May consider upgrading to r3dfox or some derivative that uses a later version of Firefox but also if our numbers decrease enough on the esr we risk Firefox finally acting on the threat of them ending support for 115.42.0esr...

I was inspired by another post on here to show my laptop too, so here :D

It has 4 GB of RAM, uses an AMD E2-7110 with Radeon R2 Graphics, and is using a 128 GB SSD. I hate the texture of the touch pad with a burning passion, so I'm also using my Logitech Ergo M575 on it :D

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