Rooting the Nexus 7

Rooting the Nexus 7 should be a trivial matter as there is a one-click root tool already out. The Nexus Root Toolkit can also do backup/restore, unlock bootloader, flash custom recovery, etc.

The difficult part is to get the laptop to detect the Nexus 7. With the USB drivers I downloaded via the SDK Manager, fastboot works, but not adb. To push images to the device for rooting, adb is what we need. The recommended universal drivers didn't work. After some trial and error, manual selection of the raw Google drivers under WugFresh Development\data\Drivers\RAW_Drivers\Google_Drivers worked.

The rooting process went fine, but SuperSU complaining that it can't find any su binaries. Repeated the root process, and now I have root.