Windows 7 ISOs updated to 2020-01 and 2016-09 with USB 3 and NVMe drivers
Posted: 19 Jan 2021, 02:32
Admin edit
Use this instead --> https://board.eclipse.cx/viewtopic.php?t=401
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Main files and info needed
If you check for updates, just install drivers, Office updates, Silverlight, or whatever else you need that isn’t a Windows 7 specific update, then disable the update service, as no other Windows 7 updates are needed.
Check the chipset install guides for how to install Windows 7 on modern chipsets
Windows 7 ISO (Updated to 2020-01)
Windows 7 ISO (Updated to 2016-09) Only use if you know what you're doing, or the above ISO has issues.
(Edit by admin)
The above download links are broken.
This is a reupload of the remake v1 ISO. There don't appear to be any other reuploads.
This contains all the other missing updates from v1. The below non-included updates are still needed.
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Updates I couldn't include
Q&A
Q: Why does the setup have the Windows 8 bootscreen?
A: The installer is from Windows Server 2012 R2, I used it so I could convert the install.wim to a install.esd to make the ISO significantly smaller. It also makes integrating NVMe and USB 3.0 support significantly easier. If this bothers you that much, you can use Easy2Boot to boot the ISO and have the Vista bootscreen instead.
Q: I just checked Windows update, and it's missing plenty of updates, why?
A: That's because those updates include telemetry, all the updates that begin with a date on Windows update are guaranteed to have telemetry (Excluding IE updates), and the rest of the KB updates that aren't in the Updates not included.zip are likely telemetry.
Q: Is the 2016-09 ISO only updated to 2016-09?
A: Yes, and no, it includes .NET 4.8, VC++, .Net 3.5 updates to 2020-01, etc, but Windows itself has no updates after 2016-09 except for the SHA-2 update, and the SHA-2 servicing stack update.
Q: What happened the 2017-08 ISO you had before?
A: If you want Windows updated to 2017-08, grab the 2016-09 ISO, and download the 2016-10 to 2017-08 updates. It's only 12 updates that you'll need to install. If you want to update to 2017-12, before the spectre and meltdown patches, here
Privacy tweaks
Open Task Scheduler, navigate to Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows and delete the items below.
Everything under Application Experience, Autochk, and Customer Experience Improvement Program
Under Disk Diagnostic, only delete Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticDataCollector
Delete everything under Maintenance, WinSAT, and Media Center
How I made the ISO, and the files you need to replicate it. (If you don't trust me)
Using MSMG Toolkit, I integrated a bunch of updates after removing any telemetry updates on my list of updates to note that I've compiled from various sources. I also integrated .NET 4.8, IE11, RDP, and Visual C++ into the ISO. The NVMe hotfixes are in update folder 1. I then used NTLite to integrate universal USB 3 drivers from MDL into the install.wim. I then placed the install.wim into a Windows Server 2012 R2 ISO (Should also work fine with a 8.1 ISO), replacing the Server install.wim with the modified Windows 7 install.wim. I modified the boot.wim to look like the Windows 7 boot.wim with ImageX and resource hacker, but this step is optional.
MSDN versions of Windows 7 (Check hashes here)
Updates already in ISO (Up to 2016-09). Numbered 1-4. 1 gets integrated first, then 2 and so on.
Security only updates from 2016-10 to 2020-01. They're split into six .7z files, you can integrate to whatever point you want to integrate to, or you could pile all of them together and integrate them for a 2020-01 ISO.
All of the updates mentioned above are here
Legal (Please don't sue)
This ISO is provided without a license key or any activation, meaning it is not an illegal source of Windows. The users must have their own license key to activate Windows.
The updates and integrated .Net 4.8, IE11, Visual C++, and more belong to Microsoft and the developers there that created them.
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Please don't sue me.
Use this instead --> https://board.eclipse.cx/viewtopic.php?t=401
End of edit
Main files and info needed
If you check for updates, just install drivers, Office updates, Silverlight, or whatever else you need that isn’t a Windows 7 specific update, then disable the update service, as no other Windows 7 updates are needed.
Check the chipset install guides for how to install Windows 7 on modern chipsets
Windows 7 ISO (Updated to 2020-01)
Windows 7 ISO (Updated to 2016-09) Only use if you know what you're doing, or the above ISO has issues.
(Edit by admin)
The above download links are broken.
This is a reupload of the remake v1 ISO. There don't appear to be any other reuploads.
This contains all the other missing updates from v1. The below non-included updates are still needed.
(End of edit)
Updates I couldn't include
Q&A
Q: Why does the setup have the Windows 8 bootscreen?
A: The installer is from Windows Server 2012 R2, I used it so I could convert the install.wim to a install.esd to make the ISO significantly smaller. It also makes integrating NVMe and USB 3.0 support significantly easier. If this bothers you that much, you can use Easy2Boot to boot the ISO and have the Vista bootscreen instead.
Q: I just checked Windows update, and it's missing plenty of updates, why?
A: That's because those updates include telemetry, all the updates that begin with a date on Windows update are guaranteed to have telemetry (Excluding IE updates), and the rest of the KB updates that aren't in the Updates not included.zip are likely telemetry.
Q: Is the 2016-09 ISO only updated to 2016-09?
A: Yes, and no, it includes .NET 4.8, VC++, .Net 3.5 updates to 2020-01, etc, but Windows itself has no updates after 2016-09 except for the SHA-2 update, and the SHA-2 servicing stack update.
Q: What happened the 2017-08 ISO you had before?
A: If you want Windows updated to 2017-08, grab the 2016-09 ISO, and download the 2016-10 to 2017-08 updates. It's only 12 updates that you'll need to install. If you want to update to 2017-12, before the spectre and meltdown patches, here
Privacy tweaks
Open Task Scheduler, navigate to Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows and delete the items below.
Everything under Application Experience, Autochk, and Customer Experience Improvement Program
Under Disk Diagnostic, only delete Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticDataCollector
Delete everything under Maintenance, WinSAT, and Media Center
How I made the ISO, and the files you need to replicate it. (If you don't trust me)
Using MSMG Toolkit, I integrated a bunch of updates after removing any telemetry updates on my list of updates to note that I've compiled from various sources. I also integrated .NET 4.8, IE11, RDP, and Visual C++ into the ISO. The NVMe hotfixes are in update folder 1. I then used NTLite to integrate universal USB 3 drivers from MDL into the install.wim. I then placed the install.wim into a Windows Server 2012 R2 ISO (Should also work fine with a 8.1 ISO), replacing the Server install.wim with the modified Windows 7 install.wim. I modified the boot.wim to look like the Windows 7 boot.wim with ImageX and resource hacker, but this step is optional.
MSDN versions of Windows 7 (Check hashes here)
Updates already in ISO (Up to 2016-09). Numbered 1-4. 1 gets integrated first, then 2 and so on.
Security only updates from 2016-10 to 2020-01. They're split into six .7z files, you can integrate to whatever point you want to integrate to, or you could pile all of them together and integrate them for a 2020-01 ISO.
All of the updates mentioned above are here
Legal (Please don't sue)
This ISO is provided without a license key or any activation, meaning it is not an illegal source of Windows. The users must have their own license key to activate Windows.
The updates and integrated .Net 4.8, IE11, Visual C++, and more belong to Microsoft and the developers there that created them.
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Please don't sue me.