The official Windows 7 SP1 ISO sits around 3.2 GB for Home Premium (x64). Bloated. Lazy. Full of printer drivers for printers no one bought in 2009.
But there’s always a catch. The .NET Framework 3.5 is “optional” (read: broken). Windows Update takes three hours to scan. And your antivirus screams about a file called activator.exe that you definitely remember downloading separately.
Then, there’s the ghost .