--- title: Windows 7 Reviews meta_title: 'Windows 7 Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 901 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Windows 7 works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 901 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-25' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Windows 7 Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Operating Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/operating-system) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 901 ## About Windows 7 Windows 7, released by Microsoft in October 2009, is a desktop operating system designed to enhance user experience and system performance. Building upon its predecessor, Windows Vista, it introduced a more intuitive interface and improved functionality, catering to both home and business users. Key Features and Functionality: - Redesigned Taskbar: The new taskbar allows users to pin applications for quick access and provides live previews of open windows, streamlining navigation. - Aero Snap and Aero Shake: These window management features enable users to easily organize open windows by snapping them to screen edges or minimizing all but the active window with a simple shake gesture. - HomeGroup: Simplifies home networking by allowing users to share files and printers across multiple PCs effortlessly. - Libraries: Aggregates files from various locations into unified views, making it easier to manage documents, music, pictures, and videos. - Improved Performance: Optimized for faster boot times and efficient resource management, Windows 7 delivers a more responsive computing experience. - Enhanced Security: Features like the Action Center provide a centralized location for security and maintenance notifications, while User Account Control (UAC) has been refined to be less intrusive. Primary Value and User Solutions: Windows 7 addresses the shortcomings of previous operating systems by offering a more stable and user-friendly environment. Its enhanced performance and intuitive features reduce system crashes and improve productivity. The streamlined interface and advanced window management tools allow users to multitask more effectively. Additionally, improved networking capabilities simplify the sharing of resources among multiple devices, making it an ideal solution for both personal and professional use. ## Windows 7 Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise the **user-friendly interface** of Windows 7, appreciating its familiarity and ease of use. (17 reviews) - Users love the **user-friendly interface** of Windows 7, making navigation intuitive and enhancing overall experience. (14 reviews) - Users praise Windows 7 for its **fast and reliable performance** , ensuring smooth workflows even on older hardware. (13 reviews) - Users appreciate the **stability and reliable performance** of Windows 7, especially on older hardware, enhancing productivity. (12 reviews) - Users appreciate the **intuitive and clear interface** of Windows 7, enhancing usability for all skill levels. (12 reviews) - Reliability (10 reviews) - Users appreciate the **clean and elegant design** of Windows 7, enjoying its ease of use and smooth performance. (7 reviews) - Users value the **strong compatibility** of Windows 7 with older software and hardware, enhancing their overall experience. (6 reviews) - Easy Setup (5 reviews) - Hardware Support (5 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users feel that Windows 7's **outdated technology** leads to a frustrating and less efficient experience compared to newer systems. (13 reviews) - Users highlight the **security issues** of Windows 7 due to its lack of updates and modern security features. (11 reviews) - Users are frustrated with the **slow updates** of Windows 7, impacting security and compatibility with newer technology. (9 reviews) - Users note a significant **lack of support** for Windows 7, raising concerns about updates and security vulnerabilities. (7 reviews) - Users report significant **compatibility issues** with Windows 7, as modern applications and drivers are no longer supported. (6 reviews) - Driver Issues (4 reviews) - Performance Issues (4 reviews) - Users experience **system crashes** and instability with frequent blue screens, impacting overall use of Windows 7. (4 reviews) - High Cost (3 reviews) - Limited Apps/Store (3 reviews) ## Windows 7 Reviews ### 1. Win 7 is the best programatly and fast SO **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cesar Andres S. | Desarrollador de back-end, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** win7 is the better in 2010, and now is obsolet, but i used in this year this SO. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** not continued this version in now years, i sad. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** i happy buy programmatly is very happy. ### 2. Windows 7 my reviews **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chinmaya A. | scientist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Windows 7 OS having High speed compared to Windows XP and also smooth runner compared to old version software, the upgraded to 7 is showing positive and efficient, software compatibility is good. compared to Vista windows is good. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Windows 7 is slow compared to XP but when i installed ram >2GB gives good performance, some how i feel windows 7 is quite expensive, need to reduce the cost. not much supportive to drive. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Restoring the backup data, wheni installed the high RAM 2GB windows 7 performance is too good and installing and running Software is more efficient and booting time reduced. ### 3. The best for its era **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Great interface The compatibility features work flawlessly with shallow issues with old apps Overall performance was at a new standard at the time of release and it is still better than Win 8 & 8.1 **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** The operating system is not getting updates and service packs anymore It does not support many modern security features that we have since Windows 10 and 11 Windows store apps won't work on Windows 7 **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Windows 7 supports many modern networking features. It comes with a new user account control area. A new task manager design and many more, it still comes with a very reasonable hardware requirements ### 4. Was a good operating system **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmed A. | Imaging and Printing Business unit manager, Retail, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Ease to learn and use, fast response, works on any low or mediuam hardware specs **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** It's not supported anymore, departued windows version **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** it was a very easy to use operating system, instead of teach all the users how to use it from scratch. ### 5. The OS that Operate without interruptions **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek D. | Professional 1 System Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** The best thing I like about windows 7 is it's OS is less complex as compared to other OS. It is best suited for those environment where the device requirement is to never shutdown or development of small to medium softwares. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Whenever windows 7 drivers get corrupted, we have to install the drivers which only compatible to windows 7 like audio , Bluetooth or video drivers. This is really annoying. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** The laboratory machines are those which constantly needs to be kept powered on without interruptions. Since Microsoft has stopped the support for Windows 7 and do not release anymore security updates so the system never gets reboot and services are always up and running. ### 6. This operating system uses less caching an older computers with less memory ram. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bernardo Farid B. | Medical Interpreter, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** This operating system has better application compatibility than the newer Windows operating systems and uses less caching, which means that older computers can run Windows 7 smoothly while those same computers will struggle a bit more running those newer Windows operating systems. I found that Windows 7 can use other third-party software that other newer operating systems cannot use. In Windows 7 you can disable automatic updates, which you cannot do in the newer Windows operating systems. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** It was pretty challenging to transition from Windows XP to Windows 7 especially getting a bit slower when using a browser and surfing the web. Windows 7 updates were significant and needed extra hard disk space to cover this. In some computers that I have used Windows 7 is that the DVD drive is not found. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better stability, and you will be sure that your system will not crash and enhance boot time as users will not take long to start their computer and begin to work ### 7. An operating system for everyone ! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pranav S. | Lead Engineer - Cloud operations, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** The simple user interface and most tools required for day-to-day tasks are pre-installed. It is well suited for both professional and home use. In short, Windows 7 does every job you expect from an operating system. It hardly takes anyone a day or two to learn and operate a Windows 7 desktop. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Security could be better, especially when compared with other OS like Linux, which comes with a secure mode. The default firewall service provides only basic features. There is no CLI-only mode and its not well-suited for software developers and programmers. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Windows 7 is the default operating system for all my desktops at home and office. I use it daily for personal and official tasks, including surfing, browsing social media and emails, and using MS tools like paint, PowerPoint, excell, word etc. ### 8. A stable and compact operating system **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raghu K. | Agile Delivery Leader, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** A very elegant search embedded in the start button, which is a one-stop shop for all my file and application search needs. A very delightful feature and a game changer, it received a very good uplift from its predecessor, Windows Vista. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Windows 7 has stopped receiving security updates, which poses a high risk for malware and ransomware infections. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** A limited user account control is displayed. It has extensive language support. ### 9. One of the Best OS's ever **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Petros C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Windows 7 was always easy to use, easy to customize and was powerful when using it for school or work. Windows 7 was a vast improvement over Windows Vista. The general issues and bugs has been worked out. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Not many issues come to mind when thinking of windows 7. In comparison to the bugs and issues with Vista, Windows 7 was a huge improvement. The only issues came with specific programs that required later versions. Updating was also slow but that could be hardware related. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Every company needs an operating system. Windows 7 was a return to the ease of use of XP and the generally great UI. Smooth processing and easy customization allows anyone to use windows 7. ### 10. It was an old operating system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Murat . | System Team Lead, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** It was an old operating system, but an operating system with a habit of use. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** There's nothing I don't likeI am very satisfied **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** very useful and nice interface ### 11. Best OS till now of windows **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankit P. | Software QA Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Windows 7 is a well build product with ease to access things. It comes with basics things not like latest windows which comes with extra noise of news and extra UI things. All things will find in control panel. It perfect OS to operate with keyboard after windows xp i like windows 7 best **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Compare to other OS windows 7 is good only few things if got update it will be helpful like clipboard and small widgets that we gets in windows 11 and apple mac OS **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** It uses less space to install in disk drives compare to latest ones and which reduces organization to buy heavy disk drives laptop and saves a lot of money of organization ### 12. Overall I like Windows **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tasha h. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** i do enjoy the applications that it allows **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** sometimes it runs slow, like my bandwidth cannot support it - but my will work in my regular browser **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do like the localization and the app store most ### 13. Windows 7 is the best Windows version of all time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ben haim k. | security analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Windows 7 provides the user with a friendly yet powerful interface that allows for customization and ease of use, and the UI is the best among all the versions provided so far, The installation process is simple and fast and allow for quick deployment for new machine! **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Windows 7 is already pretty old and thus is at the support of the product have ended in 2020, so the user might encounter unpatched security bugs and minor bugs with no fixes. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Windows 7 allows for quick deployment of new computers, which is also very non-demanding from the hardware, so it can be installed on practically any machine you've got! ### 14. Windows 7 Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahib A. | Associate Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** One of the best and most balanced Operating System designed by Google till date **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** The software update sometimes makes the device a bit heavy and traffic like **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** The windows 7 Operating System is one of the best in the market and overall gives a great smoother user experience ### 15. The Importance of Window 7 in my career. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sourabh C. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** The most helpful thing about Windows 7 is an easy user interface and clean interface, and with the help of this, it improves the user experience. Also another advantage of Windows 7 is stability. Some organizations and schools referred to window 7, which requires work in the given time. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** System Updation is the worst thing I have ever faced. It requires frequent releases and extensive updates, which will cause less system performance. Another worst thing I met during using Windows 7 is the highly configured system; some students cannot purchase the same because of the system's price. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem solved by Windows 7 was quickly understanding the computer interface when I was a student and when I first used the computer using Windows 7. In simple terms, Windows 7 is a fast learning experince for me. ### 16. Best operating system **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tushar K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** portability, snappy, microsoft apps support **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** security, user interface and user experience **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** common operating system and ### 17. Windows 7 is quit better than other OS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Usama M. | IT Specialist, Civil Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Windows 7 UI is outstanding it's very nice to see **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Windows 7 does keep time in loading. It's a very bad **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** files search options ### 18. Is windows 7 still worth in 2023? **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gourav R. | Co-founder, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** The light weight of the operating system and the materialistic UI of windows 7 makes it easy to navigate and work with it. Few of the inbuilt application and tools in the operating system makes it easy and work friedly **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** The bloatware in windows 7. There are not many bloatware applications in the operating system. Yet there are few of the apps which are not necessary for everyone and eats a lot of space and memory **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Windows 7, with its wifi capabilities and network capabilities, helps you to seamlessly connect to a network and share files or access the internet. The snipping tool is one of the best addition made to the software. ### 19. My experience with Windows 7 **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** María Gabriela G. | Asistente logística, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** What I liked or liked the most was its ease of use and movement within windows, it was really very easy to access any program just by searching at start, quite friendly for people who are learning to use a PC I think that this operating system would be the ideal **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** I would have liked it to be updated to be able to use it for longer, what I didn't like was the poor performance of my PC after a while, it slowed down despite having a good processor, and some applications didn't work properly **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Honestly, the problems that windows 7 had for me could only be corrected by improving the operating system, I am not a person particularly given to computers but I would have liked that, as with phones, a simple update had arisen so that I could continue using it ### 20. Microsoft Windows **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sameer K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Windows 7 was easy to use, with good graphics. Most applications and games support Windows 7. It was easy to recover windows or repair corrupt partition tables. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Windows 7 Home and starter edition doesn't have gpedit option also not supported for domain joining **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Windows 7 help with an application which the latest os not supporting it. It saves my money and time also ### 21. Honesty from Mac to Windows 7 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sehar J. | Marketing consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** I like the new feature of safe mode starting, you would never lose data if the PC were to shut off or die. You pick up right where you left off, I was a big mac user and ever since I started using Windows 7 i feel so much more productive. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Having so many different versions of window 7, feel like if it was clarified which one was needed it would be much easier but it's hard to navigate which one should he used. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed is one of the biggest things. It operates well in times of need or not. Windows 7 has truly made an impact with how easily compatible it is with other softwares as well. ### 22. Windows 7 - A Detailed Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Windows 7 has a user-friendly interface with a more customizable taskbar. It has better security and optimized performance as compared to the previous version of Windows Vista . **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Microsoft no longer supports Windows 7, so it has some security threats like malware and viruses. It is not designed to help touch screen interface, which disadvantages modern-day users. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Windows 7 has reduced many issues in Windows Vista by having BitLocker encryption and user account control. It has helped me in a more enhanced user experience as it has good customization features and minimal crashing issues, resulting in a smoother user interface. ### 23. How windows 7 works **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Don B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Easy to navigate specially when I was playing a lot of online games **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** This particular operating system is usually takes time to boot up **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since we might consider that is one of the Godfathered OS, this os helped me on completing my research when I was in Highschool. ### 24. It's a good operating system **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jai k. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** It's smooth,stable and it's got new features like taskbar and graphical features. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** It's not user friendly, they release updates that are normally large in size and the updates are quite frequent **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application compatibility ### 25. Windows 7 for Church Use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hesston Mennonite C. | Office Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** It is simple to understand and learn if you were using a different version before. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** I don't dislike anything. It is easy to use. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** It isn't necessarliy solving problems but it is not creating any for me. ### 26. Windows 7 review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Divya Muthusamy M. | Senior Application Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** I personally like the Processing speedvofvthis version **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** It's highly disappointed that ittakes much yime for Multiple tasks **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** It really helps me alot to complete the project ### 27. Basic stable and compatible PC system. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nouel A. | Manager, Consumer Goods, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Windows 7 is compatible with many old business management software, control data in the system and not update. Get the most out of old PC resources. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** I have no problems, Windows 7 is not supported, but it is a reality, and there is no going back. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Windows 7 is perfect for low-power programs on old hardware, compatible with the PC architecture and OS. Administrative and accounting system of past data. ### 28. Windows 7 operating system fast and easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammed Yusuf P. | Deputy manager - IT Infrastructure and Operations , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** The touch feature, Improved performance with a multicore processor, supports virtual disks and is easy to use. Improvement in look and functions and also its load faster as compared to earlier versions. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** It cannot be upgraded from the previous version; the minimum requirement for RAM is high. The look is very similar to the earlier version, incompatible with the previos version software **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** business applications and windows operating system ### 29. Windows 7 was an excellent operating system. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** It was an intuitive interface with easy to navigate menus and apps. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Not quite as smooth or refined as some of the later editions. Windows 11 is a great leap forward. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was the main operating system for our work computers. ### 30. Windows 7 review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Windows is stable OS with good features. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** I disliked windows 7 as no more updates and support. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using windows for educational purposes while I was studying. ### 31. Windows a real saviour **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav K. | Senior software engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** I like its interface. It is very easy to use and browse files and more importantly even layman can understand windows in no time. Support is great and even we get many suggestions when troubleshooting something on windows **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** I can say there is nothing i dislike. We have been using windows from our school days then college days and 12 years in corporate so it doesn't have any issues. Everything is perfect **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** With some users on Fedora, i see they are struggling to do things as quickly as we do on windows. Even I struggled alot on linux bcz of its CUI interface. With windows GUI things became very simple,easy and quick ### 32. Best Operating System Ever Produced. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kwamina A. | Front End Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** It works on most computers with old hardware from the year 2005. You don't need an expensive machine to use it. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Microsoft withdrawing support for Windows 7 is not good at all. It was definitely a platform for test software for older devices **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Windows 7 allows me to use older computers for sales terminals in shops. This saves me more money as compared to buying newer computers. ### 33. Best Classic **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeric B. | Virtual Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** It is compact and the functionalities are limitless. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** It gets buggy for a certain period of time. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Constant updates. ### 34. Windows 7 User Review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishnu K. | Developer RPA, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Windows 7 runs its application much faster than the older versions of Windows. Simple and comfortable networking Easier resource sharing 64 bit architecture No data loss when power is off and restarting Safe mode starting easier installation of softwares User friendly taskbar is another big advantage It is robust **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** No more support from Microsoft for this version User experience is similar to the older versions of windows New windows applications cannot be installed in this version Gaming performance is not as much as good Cost of license is high Microsoft security is not as good Slows down in high usuage of application especially when running bots and all Minimum 1gb RAM required. So upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 was not easy for all the users Additional RAM required for running Windows 7. So there were poor reviews from many users Some applications need online support for successful installation Expensive than previous versions of Microsoft **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Windows 7 is much better than the previous version of windows and offers less start time and easier installation of applications is another advanatge of Windows 7. If windows is getting shut down due to power loss then the data loss is not happening which is another advantage of this version. Older version was not having this benefit Introduction of windows defender provided some level of security to the device. Windows 7 support virtual hard disk Visual appearence is extra good than the previous version of windows Maximum graphical performance Bit locker is extended to the external disks in Windows 7 Updated word pad is more easy to use than the previous one Enhanced calculator gives additional feature Improved RAM capacity increases the speed of application ### 35. Old and slow. Doesn’t work with updated software **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Runs my computer because it's old. That's about it. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Doesn't work with update software, it's old and outdated. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Old, outdated. Doesn't work with update software and even some websites. Only solves that it runs an old computer that can't handle updated window systems. ### 36. very easy and reliable to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** PEGGY M. | Logistics Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** It is well optimised and fast, it has a safe mode starting, and you do not lose any data should the power switch off or the PC restart, and it an easier resource sharing **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** 7I experienced some hanging problems, and there were many versions of Windows 7 which made it confusing to know which one exactly to download and use, nothing more **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** I draw pictures using paint, I do some school and work projects with its speed and stability It helps me a lot, even thou some programs require an updated version of windows ### 37. The licensing is now free, so you don't have to register it, but Microsoft does not support it. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James H. | Technician, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Its great if your looking to customize an OS, and then create a custom burn file. It has most of your basic networking features, but get the Ultimate version **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** It would be nice if Windows still supported it, but if you cant find a particular driver, you can always find an aftermarket one to make things work with it **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a Networking Technician, so a lot of customers have wanted a tweaked customized version on their systems, you can even find may customized versions ready. ### 38. Windows 7 - Best Operating System I've Ever Seen **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kumar B. | Mr, Civil Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** -> No Lagging -> Easy User Interface -> Superfast -> Still compatible with many software -> Easy Customizations **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** -> Hard to find drivers for specific makes -> needs to make a back-up for these drivers to make them safe for necessary restorations. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basically, all daily digital problems are solved with Windows 7 ### 39. Great Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** It's so user-friendly and easy to use. It's also easy to train on. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Sometimes I don't find the right documentation I need for different issues. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making work and collaboration easy for our IT teams ### 40. A great workhorse OS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Windows 7 is great for everything that you could possibly want to do! **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** It unfortunately is losing official support now that other versions have come out. It also has a couple of issues with the way that certain drivers are handled. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's powerful in how generic it is! It's able to provide the backing for projects of all shapes and sizes. ### 41. I enjoy using windows 7 I use it everyday **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jazmin A. | Admin Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** It has lots of soft wares to use. Windows 7 is very fast. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Not applicable like everything about it. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Windows 7 has helped me solved many things such as being able to use multiple windows at once and it not slowing down on me. ### 42. Microsoft best Operating System. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shagun S. | Programmer Trainee, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Window 7 is the best operating system among all operating systems of Microsoft. Stability of window 7 is much higher than other operating system. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Security is one of the reasons I wouldn't say I like Windows 7 sometimes. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Window 7 administration is trying to make the operating system more secure. ### 43. Good but not best **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shanmukha Srinivas S. | Information Technology Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Windows defender which was available at that time is a good choice. It boots up and shuts down in a less time. Good themes support was provided. It supports virtual Hard risks with help of multi core processors. Word prediction feature was starting stage at that time. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Hanging problens are most consistent in Microsoft OS. RAM management is too poor. There is no backward compatibility to many programs. Existing hardwares were not capable of handling this OS using upgrades. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connecting to remote server is the main necessity for us. Using thia OS we used to connect to remote hosts which are present in Japan and we use to access it from India. We have used MS office applications most frequently and Windows command prompts. The command prompt available was not good. ### 44. Great OS, but Get Windows 10 Instead **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos S. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** It's easy to use and supports many applications, for all purposes and fields. There's no OS that can beat Windows on the amount of applications available, specially for professional use. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** BSOD, or blue screens of death, which are basically when the OS crashes and can't recover itself from the crash, leading to work progress and/or data loss. Other than that, I really like Windows **Recommendations to others considering Windows 7:** If you have needs similar to the ones described above, I highly recommend Windows 7 as it has lower hardware requirements and can run smoothly on most modern computers. Otherwise, I suggest you give Windows 10 a try. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our main use today for Windows 7 is for backwards compatibility testing of the solutions we develop, since all our production and most of our testing environments have been migrated already to Windows 10. But Windows 7 is great to spin off a VM (virtual machine) and get a backwards compatibility testing environment. ### 45. Account Manager. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew A. | Account Manager., Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** The interface is very helpful as it allows us to quickly navigate through the applications. The colour patterns are very attractive and engaging also. Compared to others it is useful. **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** It has issues with the smooth interface as well as shows glitches sometimes. Alot of bugs plus the font has issues as well. The interface could be more smoother **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** The fast paced interface which helps us navigate through the applications. Windows 7 gives premium vista software. It helps us being more productive in less time. ### 46. One of the best operating system **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen S. | Co-Founder/AR Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Everything is simple and straightforward which makes it one of the easy os. It supports most the drivers **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Every day needs to upgrade and some systems are very confusing. **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Windows 7 is much better than the previous version and easier to the installation of new apps. Overall it helps us be more productive in less time ### 47. Using too many resources for limited enhancements **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nityam P. | Vice President, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Simple UI with easy navigation. Start menu enhancement was most useful **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Slows down the system by using a lot of resources. Especially RAM **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most of our organisational applications were compatible with the upgrade. Better security than the previous versions. ### 48. Most robust Operating System from Microsoft's stable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashley Mathew T. | Technical Lead Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Feature Rich, stable and robust. Microsoft finally made the best OS from all their experience over a decade and more. Never again have we had to struggle to find a network driver or an audio driver after OS installation. Windows 7 had it all for 99 % of cases **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** Nothing much to list out. At some point of time, there were so many versions of Windows 7 that it was slightly confusing to select which one to download **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** The most effective way for anyone to interact with the computer and the internet and get things done. Home Networking for small office setups is easy. Most devices are supported by default without the need to maintain driver file CDs. ### 49. it was a great product - now it is over **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** fast implementation easy adoption on user more secure and easy to manage compared to xp easy activation **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** now it is over no more support no integration with recent app **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy to use for most users, the appreciate it ### 50. Windows 7 -A great start for a beginner **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav K. | Lead Software Engineer-I : Informix Product Support, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Windows 7?** Windows is something we have been using since our school days and college days. I mean all the people would have a knowledge on windows and when getting an opportunity in any IT company, it will be great to work because you know everything to look for and how to troubleshoot **What do you dislike about Windows 7?** There is nothing which I dislike. Its easy to use Nd easy to troubleshoot. The only thing which i dislike is getting hold of support person when you are in real trouble **What problems is Windows 7 solving and how is that benefiting you?** You dont need to take handover from someone when one employee leaving the organization. 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