Win7 to Win10 headaches

[jeffpmaxs6]

I went to DL Win10, but the media creation tool gives me this message.

We're not sure what happened, but we we're unable to run this tool on your PC. If you continue experiencing problems, reference the error code when contacting support. Error cod: 0x80072F8F - 0x20000

I even bought Win10 from Newegg, but all they gave me was a #. : / I wish I bought a hard copy now. Supposedly if I could dl and abstract a Win10_21H2 English x64 file then the error will go away. Supposedly a PC running Win10 can dl it. Idk, seems like a need a hard copy just to install it. Any ideals. I bought a 64GB Flash drive and when I was trying to make a ISO file, but it spit it the DVD out saying not large enough. 4.7 Gbs. That's even if it was the right thing.

[emoticorpse]

引用自 jeffpmaxs6：

引用自 plat：

Good thing you moved on when you did. Windows 7 (and 8 if anyone really cares) stops getting crucial security updates in one short week.

Glad that you were able to update to 10 successfully.

Thanks. Yeah to busy to post playing 2042. I reinstalled Win7 thinking it would help, but it didn’t. I had to get updates and keep my fingers cross just getting windows functioning and to make updates. I wanted to put Win10 on another partition, but couldn’t seem to do it. Oh well, Win10 isn’t to bad, besides not being able to find anything.

if you haven't installed Openshell yet then you should give it a shot. With the old Windows 7 style start menu, you can hover over the "Control Panel" link in the start menu and it will still have all the classic places to choose from so you don't have to waste your time so much clicking the "Settings" thing which still seems like a hot mess to me for some reason.

Also in case you miss the theme, you can theme Windows 10 to look more like Windows 7 but obviously it won't be absolutely 100% identical but it can be pretty close.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

While Windows has classic Control Panel, not everything is included within that. Some stuff you must bring up "Settings" for.

[jeffpmaxs6]

引用自 emoticorpse：

引用自 jeffpmaxs6：

Thanks. Yeah to busy to post playing 2042. I reinstalled Win7 thinking it would help, but it didn’t. I had to get updates and keep my fingers cross just getting windows functioning and to make updates. I wanted to put Win10 on another partition, but couldn’t seem to do it. Oh well, Win10 isn’t to bad, besides not being able to find anything.

if you haven't installed Openshell yet then you should give it a shot. With the old Windows 7 style start menu, you can hover over the "Control Panel" link in the start menu and it will still have all the classic places to choose from so you don't have to waste your time so much clicking the "Settings" thing which still seems like a hot mess to me for some reason.

Also in case you miss the theme, you can theme Windows 10 to look more like Windows 7 but obviously it won't be absolutely 100% identical but it can be pretty close.

Thanks that helps a lot.

[Illusion of Progress]

引用自 plat：

Good thing you moved on when you did. Windows 7 (and 8 if anyone really cares) stops getting crucial security updates in one short week.

Glad that you were able to update to 10 successfully.

Windows 8, yes, but Windows 7 already lost security updates back in early 2020, just about three years ago now. The upcoming date people are referring to is extended support for things like Office 365 so some external things were still sort of supporting them and that will seemingly stop now too, but the OS itself was already unsupported three years ago. And many things like nVidia drivers and soon browsers have already/will soon drop support.

[jeffpmaxs6]

I had updates off so long, what are they. Don’t care about support just that it works. The only thing that didn’t work was Win10 games, unless there’s a work around. Installing Win7 today though wasn’t like it was years ago. After a full install I couldn’t make updates and browser wouldn’t show pages correctly. Out of like 5 browsers only Chrome would show and install. Then I install something else, just to get updates working. I was drawing at straws, just like I was dl the Win10_21H2 to fix the error, when it was what I wanted. Lol. I reach my destination and didn’t even know it.

When I took my 980ti out and put the 6950xt in I had to boot up about 3x before the display came on. Each time I moved the gpu cable to another port and made sure the card was in tight before it booted. Did the same thing the first time I put it in, where I moved the plug on the gpu. Just things that make me go hmm.

[plat]

引用自 Illusion of Progress：

Windows 8, yes, but Windows 7 already lost security updates back in early 2020, just about three years ago now. The upcoming date people are referring to is extended support for things like Office 365 so some external things were still sort of supporting them and that will seemingly stop now too, but the OS itself was already unsupported three years ago. And many things like nVidia drivers and soon browsers have already/will soon drop support.

I was using this as a reference.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/3/23537688/microsoft-windows-7-8-end-of-support-security-updates

But yeah, at this point, if you're still running Windows 7, you're maybe on the "verge" of not giving a rat's patootie anyway.

So, it may be looked at as: January 10th is the absolute LAST time we Microsoft people will acknowledge the existence of Windows 7. Until we dictate otherwise, that is.

Edited to remove quote box from my post. At any rate, OP has resolved his issue and that's that.

[Illusion of Progress]

Microsoft says this...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-of-support

"Support for Windows 7 has ended" and "After 10 years, security updates and technical support for Windows 7 ended on January 14th, 2020."

That reference you link itself says this...

"Microsoft gave users plenty of notice, though, and first announced the end of support for Windows 7 in 2020. The only users still receiving updates are those who paid for an extra three years of extended security patches."

So Windows 7 itself already lost official support and I was mostly commenting about that. What's now happening is that date is coming for Windows 8.1 as well, and there were things (Office 365, or extended support for paying customers) that is also ending for Windows 7, so headlines are going to lump it in. But it already lost nominal support three years ago.

My primary system still ran Windows 7 Home until a number of months into 2020, and I also still had another PC with Windows 7 Professional on it. Both stopped receiving updates thorough Windows Update after that date. Windows Update itself still works of course, and other stuff (like the generic "malicious software removal" thing that gets pushed monthly) may still come through, but the OS itself stopped receiving any other updates like it used to monthly since that date. So the "Windows 7 is losing support" headlines need an asterisk because that formally happened three years ago.

[Strawberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

win7 still works here on my slimline pc