With Windows seven on the brink of completion, the RTM phase is expected to come before the finish of the month - possibly even less than a calendar week from now. Already proving to exist both popular and successful, you can bet your bottom dollar that the RTM copy of Windows 7 will hit torrent sites instantaneously.

Now, we're not encouraging you lot to go and pirate the software, and we don't have to. A majority of the enthusiast customs will download Windows seven illegitimately. Some will have already pre-ordered Microsoft'south latest Bone, others will undoubtedly come into a legal copy at one point or another, and many will apartment out steal 7 – you know who you are.

That out of the manner, the lesser line is, nobody wants to wait until October 22 to get their hands on the last build of Windows 7. Unfortunately, by jumping the gun, you're going to have to trust an unofficial source. This certainly has its risks, as we've seen with by reports of infected torrents of Windows vii creating botnets.

Recognizing this fact, Long Zheng and Sven Groot developed a handy application which generates and verifies the hash of your Windows 7 ISO. The programme is very modest at 253KB, and across easy to use. To cheque the validity of your ISO, download the complimentary utility hither. Run the program (Windows7IsoVerifier.exe) and you can browse to your ISO file (or just drag and drop it onto the executable).

The process of downloading the plan and verifying your copy of Windows 7 should accept less than a minute if you have quick fingers and a modern system. At the time of writing, it but works with the English language versions of Windows 7.

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