I recently tried to load my embroidery software on my laptop but my laptop is running Windows 7 and won't read my embroidery software because it's approx. 5 years old. Too expensive to buy new software, so I downloaded Bernina's free embroidery software: Artlink. Also have The Cut Work Tool and it's software works on my laptop and you can embroidery with it. Most of my embroidery work is done through my old desktop computer which is still working well.