File:Windows 7 SP1 screenshot.png

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Description	Screenshot of Windows 7 Ultimate, displaying its Start menu.
Source	https://microsoft.com
Author	Microsoft
Portion used	Full desktop area. Windows 7 has many other components, so this image cannot be used to recreate all (or even most) of the OS; it would thus have little or no impact on Microsoft's ability to market Windows 7.
Low resolution?	Yes; 640x480 - exactly half the resolution the screenshot was taken at. Original resolution was 1280x960.

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Image use rationale

Non-free media rationale for Windows 7
Article	Windows 7
Purpose of use	To identify Windows 7 by showing its desktop, start menu, and taskbar, along with some of their components and visual style.
Replaceable?	No. Windows 7 is under copyright and Microsoft releases the OS—including its desktop environment, user interface, and built-in applications—under non-free terms. The same details cannot be correctly represented in a free image, as one would require the same copyrighted material.

Non-free media rationale for Development of Windows 7
Article	Development of Windows 7
Purpose of use	To identify Windows 7 by showing its desktop, start menu, and taskbar, along with some of their components and visual style.
Replaceable?	No. Windows 7 is under copyright and Microsoft releases the OS—including its desktop environment, user interface, and built-in applications—under non-free terms. The same details cannot be correctly represented in a free image, as one would require the same copyrighted material.

Non-free media rationale for History of Microsoft Windows
Article	History of Microsoft Windows
Purpose of use	To identify Windows 7 by showing its desktop, start menu, and taskbar, along with some of their components and visual style.
Replaceable?	No. Windows 7 is under copyright and Microsoft releases the OS—including its desktop environment, user interface, and built-in applications—under non-free terms. The same details cannot be correctly represented in a free image, as one would require the same copyrighted material.

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	03:25, 11 November 2023		640 × 480 (252 KB)	Paowee (talk \| contribs)	Fixed Aero Glass.
	03:14, 11 November 2023	No thumbnail	640 × 480 (194 KB)	Paowee (talk \| contribs)	Updated screenshot to a resized one with Bilinear filtering. Original resolution was 1280x960, resized to 640x480 to maintain details. Do not update, unless you have a more HQ version.
	09:27, 25 October 2023	No thumbnail	365 × 274 (90 KB)	茅野ふたば (talk \| contribs)
	00:04, 28 August 2023	No thumbnail	421 × 237 (94 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	03:09, 27 August 2023	No thumbnail	1,280 × 720 (636 KB)	User0832725138 (talk \| contribs)	HD version
	00:25, 22 December 2022	No thumbnail	365 × 274 (110 KB)	Paowee (talk \| contribs)	Updated screenshot to Windows to it being fully up-tp-date and also displaying a start menu, as other Windows screenshots in Wikipedia include the start menu.
	14:51, 20 November 2022	No thumbnail	365 × 274 (97 KB)	茅野ふたば (talk \| contribs)	Best Screenshots. Original resolution: 1024x768
	14:44, 20 November 2022	No thumbnail	355 × 266 (93 KB)	茅野ふたば (talk \| contribs)	355x266
	14:41, 20 November 2022	No thumbnail	400 × 300 (109 KB)	茅野ふたば (talk \| contribs)	Clean Install
	21:51, 21 June 2020	No thumbnail	576 × 432 (221 KB)	Renamed user c9671c73eba1c22d3fc6d432b3be46b4 (talk \| contribs)	Fixed Aero Glass and used a slightly lower resolution to make the taskbar, start menu and Recycle Bin icon bigger. Original resolution: 1152x864.

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