![]() run setup.exe from that new driver letter that appeared.mount your Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 ISO (don't use non-SP1) or install CD.edit the two settings shown here, changing from EditionID "Professional" to "Ultimate" and ProductName "Windows 7 Professional" to "Windows 7 Ultimate".run the registry editor by pressing Win+R, typing regedit, then press the enter key.in my VM, I had to also uninstall boot drive encryption.backup the Windows 7 Professional system, if it's a VM (Virtual Machine) running under VMware Workstation, you can do a nearly instant backup using Workstation's Snapshot function, same goes for the VMware ESXi hypervisor, if it's a physical machine, consider VEB, it's fast and free).You must own the Windows 7 Ultimate DVD or ISOĮn_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_圆4_dvd_u_677332.isoĪnd have a legitimate license key, to re-activate in case you get prompted to do so. See the rest of the polite disclaimers at bottom left of every TinkerTry page! Prerequisites You are doing this crazy desperate act on your own, and only if you are comfortable doing so. This article assumes an intermediate to advanced level of Windows troubleshooting experience. I cannot provide free support, many things can go wrong with Windows, even when you don't monkey with it. Now you don't have to suffer searching like I did! Disclaimers ![]() How exactly did I fix this? Like many of my tips, it's a combination of pulling together information from multiple sources, to solve a problem that I didn't find any single post answering, out on the Googles. I kick myself for not fixing this earlier. Not because it's old, but because I can get work done faster in it. Now I smile a bit more, every time I sit down to use this Windows 7 VM. More RDP shortcuts and tips here, see also ensuring UDP is enabled, to help ensure you'll get the best RDP 8.0 experience seen here: Remote Desktop Connection: The quality of the connection to the remote computer is excellent and UDP is enabled. Yes, you can easily choose the reboot icon in an RDP session, even though it's normally blocked from showing in the Start button Power menu selection. When I'm in the VM and running fullscreen RDP (aka, Terminal Services), and I need to reboot the VM, no problem! I just press Ctrl+Alt+End. I even made a tray icon for the RDP file, and a keyboard shortcut to launch it. Wonderfully fast, smooth video, great audio, it just works. Now my Remote Desktop Connection now works like it should. So if you're gonna try this, it's best attempted after a full back up, and after hours. Yes, it took hours of background downloads, while I did other stuff. I also got to keep all my applications and customizations this way, with nothing lost but the time it too me to do this "sidegrade." Yeah, all those Windows Updates needed to be redone, so that required a lot of downloads and reboots. This allowed me to do an in-place re-install of Windows 7, without show-stopper warnings about using the wrong version of Windows upgrade media. This would hide its true identity from itself, tricking the Windows 7 Upgrader in thinking you have Ultimate already. I first "convinced" Windows 7 Pro that it was Ultimate by tweaking the registry. That's right, I showed Windows 7 who's boss. Thank you, KronoS and Tom Wijsman at StackExchange! Been putting up with this for years, and it was very annoying. All my VM's application positions and sizes are messed up, each and every time. How about the old laptop going to sleep? Yep, you guessed it, redo the monitor arrangement, all over again, several dozen times per day. After every Windows 10 screen lock/unlock, I have to re-initiate the full screen mode of the VM, then re-initiate the triple monitor configuration. Hasn't improved one bit since version 11. If I use the VMware Workstation console for multi-hour control of this Windows 7 Pro VM, I find the multi-monitor support is very clunky, especially with 3 monitors. I run it as a VM on my Windows 10 system, using VMware Workstation 12, and use it many hours per week, for my work. In my particular situation, I have this Windows 7 Pro that needs to stay stuck back on Windows 7. Did you know that Pro has a very annoying and seemingly arbitrary restriction? You can Remote Desktop to Pro, but you will soon discover the hard way that "Use all my monitors for the remote session" simply won't work. That burning desire to get past Windows 7 Professional's dirty little secret. This is admittedly a very niche article, of high value to a select few folks that have this very specific need. Posted by Paul Braren on (updated on Jan 12 2016) in
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