So, after scouring the net i managed to stumble upon a good safe copy of Windows 7 SP1 from before they took the .isos down from digital river, and after following some tutorials, which i was a bit skeptical about, managed to rebuild the .iso with the convenience rollup, including all updates up till april/16, which means no several hours and failed windows updates, and installed it from a USB 3.0 port, which meant instalation was really fast and easy. Had some trouble with Asus drivers for my mobo but a third party driver assistance tool did the trick and now everything is installed and up-to-date. Computer is snappy, responsive, i have no more random crashes and even managed to beautify the PC a little bit by activating Dreamscene and getting some nice video wallpaper action going on.
I can now play games!
I no longer have to fear losing my work due to random crashes!
The PC now boots up much faster!
Truly, the small things sometimes are the most important ones. The only problem is my computer is now on PT-PT instead of PT-BR... But on my next format will be upgrading to Windows 10 so it doesn't really matter.
Any chance you can PM me your iso? Mine is still the base SP1 and I'm tired of the hassle.
I actually got the base SP1 .iso and then followed
this tutorial to bundle it with the Microsoft Convenience Rollups.
It's a pretty damn good tutorial, i followed it and it worked perfectly, first try. If you want my specific .iso, and don't mind that it's in Portugal portuguese, i can probably find a way to slip it your way, but if you want it in English then you'll have to follow the tutorial using your English SP1 .iso
As to where i got the SP1 iso, it was from the
Internet Archive of the Digital River website. It's got most, but not all of the Windows SP1 .isos, sadly, no Brazilian Portuguese, but all of the english ones are there. It was where you could download the official versions of .isos without any nasties, before Microsoft decided to pull the plug on that.
It's still accessible throug internet archive, though. Since i had less than stellar experiences with .isos found through other means and i wanted to make sure it would work, i tried following that tutorial and i have to say: it works beautifully.
You
never have to use non-official software to build the .iso, too. All microsoft. Even to create the USB boot disk, i used an official microsoft tool.
If you're tech-savvy you can probably follow and complete the tutorial in about 1 hour tops, and most of that time will be spent waiting for processes to finish. The actual amount of things you have type is minimal and it's all copy paste from the tutorial. And then you'll have truly the "ultimate" version of Windows.
