Windows 7 Home Premium

Get the best out of older hardware with Windows 7 Home Premium

Windows 7 Home Premium is the most compact version of the still most popular Windows 7 operating system. Compared to the previous system Windows Vista, the Windows 7 Home Premium operating system brings with it numerous changes. This includes the improvement of the user interface, new functions and features, an increase in performance and optimizations in the security area. In addition, the Windows 7 Home Premium operating system offers you exclusive content, such as various media programs.

Ease of use and more power

The Windows 7 Home Premium operating system appears with a modern user interface, new features and numerous optimizations. The user-friendliness of the system has been improved again, as the most important programs, such as Windows WordPad and Paint, have been given a ribbon menu bar. This means you always have an overview of the most important functions and can therefore work more efficiently. With the support of alternative input methods, Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium also offers you helpful functions such as multi-touch, which you can use to draw with several fingers at the same time in Paint using the touchscreen, for example. In the Windows 7 Home Premium operating system, you can now place widgets anywhere on your desktop and no longer have to limit yourself to a sidebar. In addition to these optical improvements, the Windows 7 Home Premium operating system also offers you system optimizations in the form of performance increases, such as with the new DirectX 11. This offers your system the graphics support it needs, which it needs for more complex graphics processes, for example. In general, Windows 7 Home Premium is faster than its predecessor Windows Vista, although the system requirements are lower in comparison.

New programs and more in the Windows 7 Home Premium operating system

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium offers you numerous new features and programs so that all optimizations in the area of ​​user interface and system performance can be used optimally:

• Error Logger: Logging of problem reports
• New Security Center: Monitor firewall and virus scanner status
• Device Stages: Improved management of external devices
• Virtual folders in Explorer: So-called "libraries" for fast data access
• Voice Control and Narration: Application support for users with limited skills
• Improved taskbar and preview options
• Navigate faster with improved Windows search
• Easily create home networks
• Touch support

Unnecessary taskbar and explorer functions have been removed from the Windows 7 Home Premium operating system for optimization purposes. In return, you get new functions and programs especially with Windows 7 Home Premium, such as support for HDTV or writing and playing DVDs. Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium also includes Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player and some games.