Everything you need for work and home
Windows 7 Professional includes all the Home Premium features you love and the
business features your work demands. Connect to company networks easily and
more securely and share files across the various PCs in your home. In addition,
you can run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode and recover
your data easily with automatic back-ups to your home or business network.
Reasons to buy
- Use XP Mode: Run many existing productivity and business programs designed
for Windows XP - additional necessary software is available for download,
free-of-charge from Microsoft.
- Save time and money resolving IT issues: Take advantage of the powerful
diagnostics and troubleshooters built into Action Center to resolve many computer
problems on your own.
- Interact with any compatible device connected to your computer: See device
pictures and status and run common tasks from a single window.
- Connect multiple PCs, with or without a server: Use Domain Join to connect
PCs quickly and more securely to your wired or wireless domain network.
- Automatically back up your files: Protect your data from user error, hardware
failure, and other problems. You can back up your files to an external hard
drive, secondary hard drive, writable CD or DVD, or to a network location.
- 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.
- 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.
- Find the right printer: Use Location Aware Printing to identify your printer
when moving between the office and home.
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)