‫Throughout the tutorial, we will do various applications related to finding and exploiting security
‫vulnerabilities of the Windows 7 operating system.
‫For this, we need a virtual Windows 7 computer with security vulnerabilities.
‫We will download the Windows 7 virtual computer as an image and add it to VM player.
‫You can download the Windows 7 image file from the resources section of our course.
‫After downloading the Windows 7 image file, you can add it to VM player program by following the steps
‫below.
‫Open the VMware player program.
‫Click Open Virtual machine.
‫In the window that opens, find the Windows 7 image file you downloaded.
‫Select the image file.
‫Select the file.
‫Click open.
‫In the window that opens, enter the virtual machine name and specify the folder where you will install
‫the virtual computer.
‫Select the folder by clicking the browse button.
‫I create all virtual computers under a single folder to make it easier.
‫My recommendation would be to put all virtual computers under a single folder.
‫I use a folder called VMs on my computer.
‫I create all my virtual computers here.
‫Click the down arrow to find the VMs folder where I create a folder called win7.
‫Click the import button.
‫If a warning window appears, click retry.
‫The import process may take some time.
‫When the import process is finished, the Windows 7 virtual computer will be added on the left side
‫of the VM player main screen.
‫Start the computer by clicking the play button.
‫Enter the username, password, username, administrator and password 1234QQQQQ capital q.
‫Our Windows 7 virtual computers ready for use.