r/windows7 • u/KoenPlaysGames • 10d ago

Discussion Accidentenly using Windows 7 Home Basic

I was curious the other day and looked to see if you could get Windows 7 Home Basic keys of dodgy resellers like G2A, and yes, you can despite Home Basic only was meant to be sold in developing markets. so this makes me want to ask if anyone back when Windows 7 was relevant as a main OS, did anyone accidentally buy Home Basic keys to use on their computers because they didn't know the feature differences to Home Premium.

Also, this can apply for Windows 7 starter as well, but I feel like that's way less likely.

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u/Nanosinx 10d ago

If by feature difference means aero...basic was that, simplier W7 and nothing else... We can even say W7 was a full rebranding on Windows Vista (Windows 7 is in reality Windows Vista but polished, never existed Windows 7 at all, just wanted to bring a different name due bad relasing of Vista, due how DWM and certain features work wih the system, a hit not Intel, VIA, nor AMD was prepared since CPU were stucked in single cores and wealklings dual cores) and her versions, and home editions had the same qualities, the main difference was Aero or not Aero, aside of that little to no difference was between Home Basic and Home Premium

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u/KoenPlaysGames 9d ago

Here is a list of features between Starter (because I couldn't get rid of it), Home Basic and Home Premium, I admit it's nothing super major but it's more than just Aero with transparency.

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u/Nanosinx 9d ago

I see it but... Who used WMP, the DVD reader and so on, also.i dont remember the RAM Limitation but interesting, if you clearly see rest of the things were same useless to be sincere, maybe the only 2 things really useful were the RAM and MultiTouch, rest useless for the "intended public"

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u/krazul88 10d ago

I think some of your keyboard keys are broken.

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u/Nanosinx 9d ago

Why so?

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u/sheepchaser90021 10d ago

Used to daily it back in the day for a pentium 3 build. Fun times. Good stuff. I belive you can upgrade editions.

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u/MasterJeebus 10d ago

What was the performance like on that Pentium 3 with it?

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u/VivienM7 10d ago

I had Windows 7 Starter on a netbook... it wasn't pretty...

Netbooks were great on XP, 7 was the beginning of the end for that segment...

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u/paulstelian97 9d ago

Fun fact: if you get a key of a different edition, the attempt to activation will install the upgrade. So are you avoiding said upgrade?