Installing Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition
Ok, as a MSDN Subscriber, i just got access to the long awaited Microsoft Windows 7.
The filename of the RTM build for Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition is tagged ‘en_windows_7_ultimate_x64_dvd_X15-65922.iso’ for the x64 (64bit) and ‘en_windows_7_ultimate_x86_dvd_x15-65921.iso’ for the 32bit version.
Overview of the different Microsoft Windows 7 Editions
To install Microsoft Windows 7 i took an USB stick, made it bootable, copied to content of the ISO on the stick and installed it from there.
Here are some screens i captured during the installation..
Booting from the source media
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_Starting
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_WelcomeScreen
Initializing the setup
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_FirstScreen
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_SecondScreen
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_ThirdScreen
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_FourthScreen
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_FifthScreen
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_SixthScreen
Finalizing the setup
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_Finalizing
First start of Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_FirstStart
Creating user
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_CreateUserAndSetPassword
Entering PID (Product key)
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_ProductKey
You don’t have to enter a serial/PID key. You can evaluate Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate / Enterprise, whatever edition for 30 days. After this you can use a trick to ‘rearm’ the software protection.
For a detailed description read here (Extending Microsoft Windows 7 evaluation period using slmgr.vbs -rearm)
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_Protection
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_TimeZone
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_NetworkLocation
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_Finalizing
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_WelcomeScreen
Setup finalized, first time Microsoft Windows 7 Desktop experience
Microsoft_Windows_7_Setup_Desktop
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