Windows 7 Library

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Edition	CPU	RAM	Hard drive	Video graphics adapter
Starter	1GHz	512MB	20GB	32MB of RAM with DirectX 9 support
Home Basic	1GHz	512MB	20GB	32MB of RAM with DirectX 9 support
Home Premium	1GHz	1GB	40GB	min. of 128MB RAM with DirectX 9 support, has a WDDM driver, Pixel Shader 2.0 hardware and 32 bits per pixel
Professional	1GHz	1GB	40GB
Ultimate	1GHz	1GB	40GB
Enterprise	1GHz	1GB	40GB

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Further Reading
- Windows 7 Native Screen Magnifier Utility
  
  Windows 7 DirectAccess
  
  Four Types of Stop Errors
  
  Windows 7 Defrag.exe Tool
  
  Process Explorer
  
  Triggering a Stop Error to test if a Dump File is created!
  
  Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP)
  
  Memory Dump Files
  
  What is a Kernel Memory Dump File?
  
  How to Restore the Windows 7 Registry

Command line Tips

getmac | clip Copy my computer's MAC address to the clipboard
netsh advfirewall show allprofiles Check the status of the Windows Firewall
netsh INT IPv4 show addresses Shows the IP address configurations for all interfaces
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=”ICMPv4″ protocol=icmpv4:any,any dir=in action=allow Adds a firewall rule that allows ICMP echo requests (ping)
netsh advfirewall reset Resets firewall to default settings
News

Microsoft announced that it has sold 450 million Windows 7 licenses since the launch of two years ago. Windows 7 has an average market share of 40.5% exceeding Windows XP by 2% -
October 2011

With Windows 7 Microsoft made a commitment to work on many more existing PCs by keeping system requirements low and maintaining compatibility. Looking just at Windows 7 customers, there are currently more than 450 million PCs that will be able to run Windows 8, but Microsoft expects that many systems running Windows Vista and even Windows XP will also be eligible -
January 2012