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Thank you very much for your advice and information; very helpful. The computer that I purchased in December 2017 is an Acer Aspire S13 (S5-371T) Ultrabook which was pre-installed with Windows 10 Home. The configuration is an Intel i7, 7th generation, 8GB RAM and has 2 USB3 ports and 1xUSBC port. I 'played' with Windows 10 Home and concluded that Windows 10 is a social media and entertainment OS. I am not interested in either. It is not possible to customise the OS and get rid/uninstall the bloatware. It drove me nuts, hence the reason I was struggling to install Windows 7 Ultimate and since have learnt a lot.
A SevenForums guru sent me a link to "Windows 7 Updater". This small program integrates all Microsoft's updated drivers automatically and I was able to burn it to a DVD DL. The installation went like a dream and I am now able to install the programs that I currently use. All is well but for a driver..
The computer has a touch screen and touchpad and they are not working. The information that I see from Device Manager is as follows: On the General tab, Location - "Intel(R) Serial IO 12C Host Controller 9D61. The Driver for this device are not installed (Code 28)." The Details tab Hardware ID: ACPI\ELAN0501 *ELAN0501. I installed the ELAN touchpad driver, but that has not solved the problem.
However, with SevenForum's assistance, I am hoping that someone will steer me into the correct direction.
Many thanks!