This will help you skip steps 5-22 of the instruction below. Unfortunately the NUC does have only USB 3.0 ports, so something must be done (there are internal USB 2.0 ports, but these are rather inconvenient to use) as the only way you could control your NUC is through the USB ports.ĮDIT: Intel has now released a Windows 7 USB 3.0 Creator Utility v3 that will modify your Windows 7 installation USB stick automatically. Specifically it is lacking USB 3.0 support. The reason is that Windows 7 starts to be rather old already and the basic installation does not support more modern hardware. Installing Windows 7 on the NUC5CPYH or NUC5PPYH (Braswell NUC) is a bit tricky.
The following instruction tells you how to install Windows 7 on a Braswell or Skylake NUC.
