which is lightest of the windows 7 versions solved

reinstalling Windows 7 or 8 on my wiped laptop which originally had Windows 7
location: microsoft.com - date: December 29, 2012
my sister recently gave me her old laptop which she had to reboot & wipe due to poor performance etc unfortunately our parents threw the original hard drive disc away. the laptop is only a year old & worked on Windows 7, what software is best to install again to get it up & running & is there a specific version I need to get? any help appreciated :)
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[SOLVED] Windows 7 64 bit crashes constantly with games - APPCRASH - Fault Module Name: d3d9.dll
location: microsoft.com - date: February 1, 2010
Hello Unfortunately, your fix didn't solve my problem of Win7 64bit crashing when playing many games.    My VelocityMicro gaming pc came with Win 7 64bit installed and 6g of ram. The crashes are a recent problem as games like Torchlight ran problem free until two months ago.   I've cleaned the registry, defragged, scanned the HD for errors, and changed msconfig startup so only windows os, virus software and my razor mouse driver load.   The games still crash.   My video driver (   NVidia GeForce GTX 295) is the latest.   Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100618-1621)            Langua
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(SOLVED!) Windows 7 and XP boot loader flip flopping
location: winsecrets.com - date: October 20, 2011
Hey all, I have a desktop PC with two hard drives: a 500 gigger with Win 7 Pro x64 installed on it, and a 40GB drive with XP Pro installed. I recently was trying to delete and merge my 100MB System Reserved partition with my primary Win 7 partition, but I didn't do it right, and Windows 7 wouldn't boot. Fortunately, I was able to fix the issue by booting into my XP install and using Partition Wizard to recover the deleted partition. However, it was marked as unallocated space, so I had to mark it as active, and then run Startup Repair so that Windows Recovery Environment could rewrite the files to the new System Recovery partition. It worked, and Windows 7 was just the way it was before I started fiddling with it. Here's the problem:
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File sharing between Windows 7 and earlier versions of windows
location: microsoft.com - date: February 7, 2010
I have a "trusted" environment.  Computers do not use passwords for user accounts.  With Windows 2000 and XP, I can set a disk as shared and access it from other computers on the network.  When user accounts are different, all that is required is to specify an account on the target system.  Passwords are not required. I'm now testing a Windows 7 system.  I cannot find a way to share the disk(s) on the Windows 7 system, nor can I access shared disks on other systems.  When I attempt to do so, I get asked for a username and password.  I enter the username, but cannot specify a blank password. How can I get Windows 7 to share files and disks similar to the manner possible on XP and 2000 ??
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SOLVED: Run XP Mode Explorer from Windows 7
location: 7forums.com - date: October 4, 2012
As a software developer, I still need to run older development tools under XP and still want to use version control tools like Tortoise SVN. Ideally I wanted to do this using the seamless XP Mode, but SVN largely works via Explorer extensions, which would therefore not be accessible directly from the Windows 7 host if installed in the VM. However, I noticed the integration of the XP Mode's Explorer dialog in the Open/Save of programs running as virtual XP applications in Windows 7. This surely meant that XP Mode Explorer itself can function as a virtual application? But there are some peculiar stumbling blocks to making that happen. First off, the publishing of Explorer.EXE is prevented by an entry in the VM's registry. Removing that di
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Windows 7 scanner message "Which device do you want to use?"
location: 7forums.com - date: February 12, 2013
We just upgraded our office desktop from Windows XP and Windows 7. We used to scan driver's license IDs into our accounting program on XP. It worked pretty smoothly. But now on Windows 7 (the same hardware, except the desktop itself) when someone tries to scan a document we get the following window (see attached) that says, "Which device do you want to use?" With only one scanner in the list. That is kind of stupid, isn't it... Plus this window doesn't just popup, it becomes hidden behind other windows and the only way to tell that it's there is by its flashing icon on the taskbar, which is very confusing for most of our office workers. Does anyone know how to make this window not show up and go directly into that scan
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Windows 7 default scheduled tasks - which to disable?
location: 7forums.com - date: December 1, 2009
I'm running Win 7 ultimate 64 bit. I'm taking a peak into the default Task Scheduler tasks to see what my OS thinks is a good idea to automatically run occasionally. In my earlier systems (XP), I've pretty much disabled all scheduled tasks to improve performance and decrease annoyance. Now with the the beefy hardware on my new system, I'm making some allowances for safety precautions, but I would still like to turn most of it off. I'm leaving the System Restore settings intact, but so far I've turned off the defrag task, "customer experience..." task, and a few others. But I am not familiar with a lot of these other tasks - like "Diagnostics" and "DiskDiagnosis" There is a tutorial or guide somewher
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How do you get Windows 7 to open a wps document from an external hard drive which is in windows XP?
location: microsoft.com - date: January 7, 2011
My old computer died but I backed up files on an external hard drive. My new computer has Windows 7 Home  Premium. The old computer used XP. When I try to open these old wps the are in code. How do I get to where  I can read these files?
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Does windows 7 premium 64 bit have less updates than previous versions
location: 7forums.com - date: April 28, 2011
It seems to me that I have a lot less updates now that I am using windows 7 premium 64 bit... I never had windows vista... I used xp pretty much right up until Jan 2011... it seems to me like the version of windows I am using now (7 premium 64 bit has way less updates than xp professional had... does anyone know if this is true that this version of windows has needed less updates?
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I am trying to install Windows 7 Professional Upgrade on my Intel Macintosh using Parallels. The computer is new, but I owned a copy of Windows XP Professional on my Mac laptop which i have removed.
location: microsoft.com - date: October 26, 2009
Ideas: I am trying to install Windows 7 Professional Upgrade on my Intel Macintosh using Parallels. The computer is new, but I owned a copy of Windows XP Professional on my Mac laptop which i have removed. In other words, I am upgrading, but doing a clean install on the new Mac. When I type in the Windows Product Key for Windows 7, I get the message, "The Product Key is not valid". I think this is because I do not have an installed copy of Windows XP Professional. I thought that by doing a "clean install" I needed to remove all old Operating systems and reformat the disk, then at some point, Windows would ask for an XP Product Key to verify the upgrade. Now what do I do? Do I have to erase the disk again, install windows XP Pro, th
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