Windows 7 64 Home Premium Issues

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Gents, I need some help. Windows 7 is acting up, I can download programs but they won't install!

Just to give an example, bought and downloaded TurboTax 2017 this evening. File downloads 100% but then went I click on it to run a screen opens up doing it's 0-100% access and then quits. Same thing happens with all new programs I download, when I go to click on them nothing happens. Not even an error or anything.

Anyone know how to fix this?

I should point out that I did run sfc /scannow and I did get errors what were unable to be fixed.

I am thinking of REPAIRING Win 7 but I have the OEM disk (bought it at the time because it was cheaper than retail) and I am reading conflicting information on if I can repair windows with an OEM disk or if I need the retail disk to do repair.

Also, I am thinking of getting an SSD just for Windows 7 (and Lightroom), how big of an SSD do you recommend? I figured if I have an SSD just for Win 7 I can just do a clean install once a year and not worry about corrupt files, slowing down or losing files.

Speaking of Lightroom some of my files are huge but to save cost on the SSD I'm thinking I could save (or export) my photos to a normal HDD and just use the SSD when I am actually working on the photo, is that possible?
 
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People here are going to go [H]ard on you and tell you that you need a 500+ GB SSD. Don't listen to them. :p Windows 7 or even 10 will fit on a 120 or 240 GB SSD. Now if a 500+ GB SSD falls into your hands on the cheap, then obviously go with that. A 240 GB is a nice sweet spot if you don't want to drop a lot of $$$. Plus they have been on sale all over the place on the "cheap" lately.
 
About the best SSD you can buy right now. Do you have a PCIe compatible M.2 slot to put it in? Some older slots are SATA only.
 
Not that I can tell looking at the product page. Z87 must have been before M.2 slots were commonplace. You'll want to stick to a more traditional 2.5" SATA SSD such as this.
 
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If it helps I just upgraded and have a fresh Win 10 install on a 256 GB SSD. It's Win 10 OS, full Office 2013 install, Nero, PowerDVD, AV and such. It's at 65 GB with that. I have a 2 TB HDD for game installs. I guess the other tradeoff for SSDs is the larger the faster, but I'm not sure it matters a whole lot, but some suffer more than others. Check the reviews where they discuss ratings by size for the models you're interested in.
 
The thing with small SSD:s is that putting your OS in there isn't going to make you happy. Sure you'll boot a few seconds faster but if you don't have space to put your applications on it you will get zero benefit during the actual use of the computer.
 
B00nie said:
The thing with small SSD:s is that putting your OS in there isn't going to make you happy. Sure you'll boot a few seconds faster but if you don't have space to put your applications on it you will get zero benefit during the actual use of the computer.
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Interesting. My 120GB SSD has Windows 10 and all the applications I need on it. I put Overwatch on it too with 40GB to spare.

I am NOT advocating such small SSD's anymore but mine is old. These days, get something bigger.
 
criccio said:
Interesting. My 120GB SSD has Windows 10 and all the applications I need on it. I put Overwatch on it too with 40GB to spare.

I am NOT advocating such small SSD's anymore but mine is old. These days, get something bigger.
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My kids steam folders are 1,5 terabytes alone. A small SSD won't be very useful :)
 
B00nie said:
My kids steam folders are 1,5 terabytes alone. A small SSD won't be very useful :)
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Obviously not but generally "your applications" and a terabyte and a half of games aren't really the same thing.

Again, small SSD's make NO sense right now. I'm not arguing for that. I was, however, arguing against the insinuation that with Windows installed you have zero room for applications.. This is objectively not true.
 
criccio said:
Obviously not but generally "your applications" and a terabyte and a half of games aren't really the same thing.

Again, small SSD's make NO sense right now. I'm not arguing for that. I was, however, arguing against the insinuation that with Windows installed you have zero room for applications.. This is objectively not true.
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With a 120Gb SSD you'll run out of space pretty soon due to piling up service packs, shadow copies, security patches and other system created files/backups. So I stand in my assessment that a 120Gb SSD is simply too small in the long run unless you do manual cleanup of your Windows.
 
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