Modified ISOs are not official Microsoft products. They may contain malware or lack critical security patches.
To achieve extreme compression, creators often remove critical drivers (USB 3.0, Network drivers), making the installation unusable on modern or even semi-old hardware.
If you cannot build your own, do not use Windows 7 at all. Switch to Linux or a modern LTSC Windows. The era of Windows 7 is overโprotect yourself by moving forward, not backward into a maliciously compressed past.
Modified ISOs are not official Microsoft products. They may contain malware or lack critical security patches.
To achieve extreme compression, creators often remove critical drivers (USB 3.0, Network drivers), making the installation unusable on modern or even semi-old hardware.
If you cannot build your own, do not use Windows 7 at all. Switch to Linux or a modern LTSC Windows. The era of Windows 7 is overโprotect yourself by moving forward, not backward into a maliciously compressed past.