Is it too late to do a fresh install of win7?

[trinidad]

MS support promises are rarely understood correctly. Any extended support for Windows 7 past October of this year, will only be for long running Professional versions, however even there many applications in Windows 7 are doomed to obsolescence; that is very little patching and kernel hardening will be available, regardless of MS announcements, and when Windows 10 approaches a half billion by the end of the year, insider hints seem to be that resources dedicated to Windows 7 will not be much of a priority for MS, actually really can't be sensibly. The Windows 7 kernel is considerably more deprecated and top heavy than you may think, and the actual updates you may need are often long gone because the patches don't always connect sequentially, so new installs from old media will not always connect those convoluted dots. It's going to be pretty self deprecating and pretty rapidly so, and new installs from old media will be next to impossible to update. Many original Windows 7 Professional systems have exceeded 80gig over their years of usage, and to expect to update such absolutely top heavy systems from an old media install is to have very unrealistic expectations considering the way MS dirties its own systems. You really should install !0, for any extended use. Don't waste your time with 7. To fully update a new 7 install done from old removable media, even if it was possible, (and it's not) could take days.

TC