The best entertainment experience on your PC

Windows 7 Home Premium offers a rich, dynamic entertainment experience on your PC, making it easy to create a home network and share all of your favourite photos, videos, and music. You can even watch, pause, and rewind TV or record it to watch whenever and wherever you want.1

This product includes both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Reasons to buy

Record TV on your PC: Watch, pause, rewind, and record TV, movies, and other video content with Windows Media Centre, updated to manage a single TV guide containing both standard and digital high definition TV shows.1

Personalize your desktop: Easily change backgrounds, window colors, and sounds to reflect your personal style. You can even turn your desktop into a slide show of your favorite photos.

Enjoy better Web browsing with Internet Explorer 8: Get impressive new features such as Web Slices, which lets you track information such as auction items, sports scores, and weather reports without revisiting a site.

Access recently used files with just two clicks: Right-click the relevant program icon (such as Word) on your taskbar and Jump List will show your most recent, frequently used, and pinned Word documents.

Stream music files on any network-connected device: Just open Windows Media Player, right-click on what you’d like to hear, select Play To, and you’ll see a list of devices and PCs on which you can play your music.

Find virtually anything on your PC – from documents to photos to e-mail: Just click on the Start button, and enter a word or few letters in the name or file you want into the search box, and you’ll get an organized list of results.

Share files across the various PCs in your home: Use HomeGroup to connect your PCs running Windows 7 to a single printer. Specify exactly what you want to share from each PC with all the PCs in the HomeGroup.

Pin any program to the taskbar: Any program is always just a click away – and you can rearrange the icons on the taskbar just by clicking and dragging.

Before you buy

Running Windows Vista?
If you have Windows Vista, you can purchase Windows 7 Upgrade versions. You can do a clean install (back up your files, clean install, and reinstall your applications) or an in -place upgrade (Windows 7 installs over Windows Vista).

Running Earlier Versions?
If you have Windows XP or Windows 2000, you can purchase Windows 7 Upgrade versions. But you must back up your files, clean install, and reinstall your applications.

System requirements

Processor
1GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

Video card
DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or later driver.

Memory
1GB RAM (32-bit) / 2GB RAM (64-bit)

Hard disk
16GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)

Other

1For some Windows Media Center functionality, a TV tuner and additional hardware may be required. Windows Touch and Windows Tablet require specific hardware.

HomeGroup requires a network and PCs with Windows 7.

Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require advanced or additional hardware.

DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive. Depending on resolution, video playback may require additional memory and advanced graphics hardware. Internet access required to use certain features (fees may apply).

Music and sound require audio output.

Some features in earlier Windows versions are not included in Windows 7. Get similar programs including Windows Live Mail™, Photo Gallery, Messenger and Movie Maker for free through Windows Live Essentials, at download.live.com.

Make sure your PC is compatible with Windows 7. Download and run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor.