Windows 7 ISO download from Digital River

Question

I'm having troubles installing Windows 7 on an older laptop (certified for W7). It takes forever to install all updates. I started two days ago with updating. The installation DVD is quite old, before SP1. I installed SP1, rebooted maybe seven times since then, have no idea how many times to go.

I've found ISO images of Windows 7 on Digital River, the official MS download site. When I use these, do they have the latest updates? So would it be a good idea to start over with one of those images?

Solution

Yes, you would be better off using those. You see where it says SP1, that stands for service pack one meaning it's preloaded into the ISO image. You can use a program called [UNetbootin] (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) for flash drives. After the install is complete i suggest getting all your drivers installed, if you don't have them do a Google search, for example: HP Pavilion dv7-3065dx drivers. For the updates never do more than 50 at a time or it may fail to configure changes so take your time and find a Ethernet cable to speed up the downloads. Also since these ISO images have SP1 you do not need to download those updates.

Comments

[Ramhound]

Microsoft has not released a new .ISO since Service Pack 1 was released. You can add those updates yourself to the .ISO and update the .ISO yourself but you still have to download the updates.

[SPRBRN]

Just found wsusoffline.net/docs, which downloads all updates and has an installer included. I'm going to try that!

[TechLife]

There is something called Baseline windows which was made to make it easy to add updates to windows isos. They created a base iso and released updates seperately, and you can download the updates and add those to that iso and make a new iso which has that updates inside it without the trouble of downloading the whole windows files. But! unfortunately they are gone. I dont know why but they have stopped the work.