{"id":28,"date":"2009-07-25T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2019-02-07T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T04:41:08","slug":"windows-7-rtm-selecting-the-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 RTM \u2013 Selecting the edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20090725\/changes-to-the-windows-7-install-process\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20090725\/changes-to-the-windows-7-install-process\/\">http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20090725\/changes-to-the-windows-7-install-process\/<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Up and until RTM, the ISO image files of Windows 7 that Microsoft distributed (and third-parties distributed) are labeled with a version. For the most part, this has been \u201cUltimate\u201d. Even though the install image \u201cinstall.wim\u201d in Windows 7 still contains four versions, one version is automatically installed determined by a file called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd744535%28WS.10%29.aspx\"><strong>ei.cfg<\/strong><\/a>\u201d in the \u201csources\u201d directory on the install disk.<\/p>\n<p>To get around this limitation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydigitallife.info\/2009\/07\/23\/how-to-select-any-edition-or-version-sku-of-windows-7-to-install-from-single-edition-dvd-disc-media-or-iso\/\">simply deleting the \u201cei.cfg\u201d file<\/a> will allow you to choose a version to install (illustrated above).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20090725\/changes-to-the-windows-7-install-process\/: Up and until RTM, the ISO image files of Windows 7 that Microsoft distributed (and third-parties distributed) are labeled with a version. For the most part, this has been \u201cUltimate\u201d. Even though the install image \u201cinstall.wim\u201d in Windows 7 still contains four versions, one version is automatically installed determined by a file called \u201cei.cfg\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}