The ISO file contains all the Windows 7 installation files combined into a single uncompressed file. When you download the ISO file, you need to copy it to some medium in order to install Windows 7. This tool allows you to create a copy of the ISO file to a USB flash drive or a DVD. To install Windows 7 from your USB flash drive or DVD, all you need to do is insert the USB flash drive into your USB port or insert your DVD into your DVD drive and run Setup.exe from the root folder on the drive. Note: You cannot install Windows 7 from the ISO file until you copy it to a USB flash drive or DVD with the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool and install from there. The copy of the ISO file that the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool creates is bootable. Bootable media allows you to install Windows 7 without having to first run an existing operating system on your machine.
If you change the boot order of drives in your computer's BIOS, you can run the Windows 7 installation directly from your USB flash drive or DVD when you turn on your computer. Please see the documentation for your computer for information on how to change the BIOS boot order of drives.
You may make one copy of the ISO file on a disc, USB flash drive or other media in order to install the software on a computer. Once you have installed the software on a computer, the license terms that accompany the software apply to your use of the software and replace these terms.
The license terms for Windows 7, once accepted, permit you to make one copy of the software as a back-up copy for reinstallation on the licensed computer. If you do not delete the copy of the ISO file you made to install the software on your computer, then the copy of the ISO file constitutes your back-up copy.
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Or read our to learn how to use this site. So far as I know there is no such thing as an illegal ISO if it was downloaded from Microsoft. Anyone is allowed to have and keep the installation media for Windows. The individual who archived them says they came from Microsoft's servers, and I have little reason to doubt that. What makes legal or not is whether something would be 'cracked' which means it would automatically `license itself` even though the end user did not have a legitimate license key. Bleeping Computer strictly forbids the discussion of sources of cracked software or the encouraging of its use in any way, shape, or form.
The one ISO I used from that collection a while back appeared to be stock Microsoft and I was prompted to enter a license key for Windows 7. It's been so long now since I did a Windows 7 install I cannot recall if you can even continue without a key and have a 30-day demo mode, during which there would be some mechanism for entering the license key once you had one. Edited by britechguy, 16 September 2018 - 03:34 PM.