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Hi Roland,

Any advice is good, so you're not picky . I was wondering already if I could treat this iso-file the same way as my normal data files.

I just downloaded and installed the 64bit version of PowerISO (unregistered copy) from here:
PowerISO - Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive, DAA File

I not sure how to use this program to get my (now fully downloaded) iso to my usb.

Judith

I'm at school, cannot give you a step by step at this time; await others who can post a quick-list.

There are some free versions of ISO-burners out there...I and others will try to post a few suggestions in here.

Hello Judith now I see Roy beat me to it with that excellent tutorial it has just about everything in it.

Now another program you can use and is free to make the bootable disk or stick is this The Official ImgBurn Website

Just so you know when you do burn the disk or stick make sure you pick the slowest rate of burn as a fast burn may not give as good a quality disk/stick. For an example $x is reasonably good and I always pick (if the porgram lets me) an even slower speed.

If you are having problems a very simple and easy way to create a Bootable Windows 7 USB Installer is by using Unetbootin v494

UNetbootin - Browse /UNetbootin/494 at SourceForge.net

You'd need unetbootin-windows-494.exe

It's an old version of Unetbootin that still works. Newer versions cannot create a Bootable Windows 7 USB Installer as the functionality has been removed.

Instructions here:

Install Windows 7 From USB Drive [In 2 Simple Steps]

Choose ISO and Drive letter.

There may be a large number of updates required after a clean install.

I'm not sure if the clean install tutorial has been updated to include the "Windows 7 SP1 Convenience Rollup" (KB3125574).
This rollup updated the OS to April 2016 (it should speed up the reinstall process considerably).

There was a prerequisite update (KB3020369) for the "Windows 7 SP1 Convenience Rollup" (KB3125574).
The prerequisite update must be installed first.
Here is a link to the info that I used last year:
How to Update Windows 7 All at Once with Microsoft’s Convenience Rollup

When checking for updates you may also experience the ridiculously slow Windows Update issue.

I think that "July 2016 update rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1" (KB3172605) finally fixed the issue.
Here is a link about that:
Checking for updates slow on Windows 7? Here is the fix - gHacks Tech News


Aside:
Has anyone tried the "adding updates to the W7 image" procedure listed at the end of that article?

I think you can just ignore that message and just eject the USB then reinsert it. Reboot and if it doesn't boot from USB and install Windows then check BIOS options to make sure that you can boot from USB.