win 7

[bub1881]

I have win 7 pro. The games run on my system. There is nothing in the way except a greedy company that desires more control over what we do, and how we interact with it. ♥♥♥♥♥♥ middlemen trying to wrest control of a business that is between me and the developer.
pretty sad to steal all my games away, whatever. Refund me full price of everything I can no longer use. I can't POSSIBLY afford to upgrade this system, must be nice for you peeps with the funds to always push ♥♥♥♥ further and faster, cant sit still for 2 seconds ADHD and all, have to have latest and newest even when you have that in your hands already
sad. Yea i finally noticed the little red thing in the top of my screen saying i have just
ONE MONTH
to enjoy my games before this ♥♥♥♥ company pulls the plug on me, because "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ n stuff" admit your noses are jammed up microsoft ass as far as they can possibly fit and you follow orders from above.
Anywho thanks for the memories i guess you got every right nowadays to just reclaim ♥♥♥♥ I paid for fairly. Some BS about intellectual property and ♥♥♥♥. Tell that to a chef. Taking advantage of the fact i mentioned above, that vast audience of twits who can't still long enough for the next best thing so you can make a better profit, and have much more control, over those developers and the consumers. We won't own ♥♥♥♥ in the future, I doubt I will like what you are bringing to the table, either.

[r.linder]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Crashed:

Początkowo opublikowane przez 尺．し工几ᗪヨ尺:

That's from Windows Update, doesn't apply to making an install disk yourself and proceeding without a license. People need to actually read more than just headlines.

So you'd have an unlicensed copy of Windows 10/11 then? Because it was just recently that the license upgrades stopped being issued.

The license does nothing other than enable desktop customization options but that can easily be worked around with third party programs like Wallpaper Engine, and registry edits. You can use the OS just fine without it.

Licenses can be had for around 20 bucks anyway if you're really that bothered by it, it's really not a big deal.

[Crawl]

Początkowo opublikowane przez bub1881:

I have win 7 pro. The games run on my system. There is nothing in the way except a greedy company that desires more control over what we do, and how we interact with it. ♥♥♥♥♥♥ middlemen trying to wrest control of a business that is between me and the developer.
pretty sad to steal all my games away, whatever. Refund me full price of everything I can no longer use. I can't POSSIBLY afford to upgrade this system, must be nice for you peeps with the funds to always push ♥♥♥♥ further and faster, cant sit still for 2 seconds ADHD and all, have to have latest and newest even when you have that in your hands already
sad. Yea i finally noticed the little red thing in the top of my screen saying i have just
ONE MONTH
to enjoy my games before this ♥♥♥♥ company pulls the plug on me, because "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ n stuff" admit your noses are jammed up microsoft ass as far as they can possibly fit and you follow orders from above.
Anywho thanks for the memories i guess you got every right nowadays to just reclaim ♥♥♥♥ I paid for fairly. Some BS about intellectual property and ♥♥♥♥. Tell that to a chef. Taking advantage of the fact i mentioned above, that vast audience of twits who can't still long enough for the next best thing so you can make a better profit, and have much more control, over those developers and the consumers. We won't own ♥♥♥♥ in the future, I doubt I will like what you are bringing to the table, either.

If you can't afford to upgrade over the course of 10+ years PC gaming is probably not the hobby for you. Maybe you should try kicking cans, or skipping rocks if you live near water.

[pasa]

look for the survival guide. You have to prepare by disabling steam update, install your games you want to play, then from jan1 they will keep working in offline mode.

[pasa]

Początkowo opublikowane przez plat:

Get mad at- and sue Google and Microsoft. Valve had little choice in the matter and prolonged availability past a reasonable time, in my opinion.

Come on, man, don't join the morons singing the tune and spresing the BS. Valve had all the choice and have it and it's a trivial thing to issue a thin launcher-only client. What is requested for almost a decade. They cover by the chromium which was never needed to the essential features, for the spam. And they deliberately chose to ♥♥♥♥ on their aware clients while struggling to push more and more of their shop.


And it is beyond pathetic how outsiders are so happy that other people's game library is taken hostage and run ahead to throw salt into the wounds. :-(

[MonkehMaster]

Początkowo opublikowane przez smallcat:

Might circumvent some of the sys reqs of Windows 11 with the options - /product server . Unfortunately on too old rigs apparently it cannot help (Maybe still needs TPM 1.2 ). i tried on i3 2350M and the laptop hung . Yep , it was Tiny 11 . I was very curious whether it would work .

nope you can bypass all win 11 requirements, i have laptops as old as dual cores, dual cpu, that run win 11.

[Crashed]

Początkowo opublikowane przez MonkehMaster:

Początkowo opublikowane przez smallcat:

Might circumvent some of the sys reqs of Windows 11 with the options - /product server . Unfortunately on too old rigs apparently it cannot help (Maybe still needs TPM 1.2 ). i tried on i3 2350M and the laptop hung . Yep , it was Tiny 11 . I was very curious whether it would work .

nope you can bypass all win 11 requirements, i have laptops as old as dual cores, dual cpu, that run win 11.

It appears pre-2013 processors however may fail to boot the latest Canary builds, but still that's pretty old by today's standards.

[MonkehMaster]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Crashed:

Początkowo opublikowane przez MonkehMaster:

nope you can bypass all win 11 requirements, i have laptops as old as dual cores, dual cpu, that run win 11.

It appears pre-2013 processors however may fail to boot the latest Canary builds, but still that's pretty old by today's standards.

i havent tried any older (pre- 2013) ones myself, but i imagine its not difficult to get them running, heck i had zero issue with the ones i did try, aside from having to reset to default the "power plans" as whatever the issue is, causes the plans to be messed up and makes the cpu usage run at 100% 24/7.

[Crawl]

Początkowo opublikowane przez pasa:

Come on, man, don't join the morons singing the tune and spresing the BS. Valve had all the choice and have it and it's a trivial thing to issue a thin launcher-only client. What is requested for almost a decade. They cover by the chromium which was never needed to the essential features, for the spam. And they deliberately chose to ♥♥♥♥ on their aware clients while struggling to push more and more of their shop.


And it is beyond pathetic how outsiders are so happy that other people's game library is taken hostage and run ahead to throw salt into the wounds. :-(

It's not a trivial thing. Someone has to create and maintain that client. It likely wouldn't be compatible with their servers which they would want to keep updated for security reasons so now you need additional hardware/software on the back end so that out of date client will function and which has be to maintained by someone. All of that for about 1% (and shrinking) of their user base which lets face it aren't spending tons of cash on Steam buying new releases and such. I assure you Valve has crunched the numbers and Windows 7 users aren't worth keeping as customers, if you were there would have been no need to ask for a client it would have been done already.

[plat]

Początkowo opublikowane przez pasa:

Początkowo opublikowane przez plat:

Get mad at- and sue Google and Microsoft. Valve had little choice in the matter and prolonged availability past a reasonable time, in my opinion.

Come on, man, don't join the morons singing the tune and spresing the BS. And it is beyond pathetic how outsiders are so happy that other people's game library is taken hostage and run ahead to throw salt into the wounds. :-(

First, not a "man" so let's program the shuttered mind out of that hole. Secondly, are you implying Valve has some kind of "vendetta" or something against a tiny subset of users? You're joking, right? It looks like Valve hung on as long as it decently could before setting an ending date. There is nothing personal about this, it's simply good business sense.

Would you cling to something that had no hope of being maintained in a working condition? Maybe YOU would in your words but the majority would not.

This is the absolute last I'm going to speak about it, so if you're gearing up for some kind of bullying flaming argument based on vapor and hot air, kindly take your stuff elsewhere. Thanks so much.

[IcedLance]

Does anyone have any experience updating Windows 7 to 10 without losing all the data?
Can it be done?
I would HATE to backup and restore all the data and all the installed software.

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

no ones library is being held hostage, (well only by the user themselves if they choose not to upgrade)

your library is fine to be used on supported OS

so stop holding YOUR library hostage and upgrade like a sane human

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

Początkowo opublikowane przez IcedLance:

Does anyone have any experience updating Windows 7 to 10 without losing all the data?
Can it be done?
I would HATE to backup and restore all the data and all the installed software.

yes backup your personal data to external drive, wipe all ssd/hdd's in ur pc and do clean install of win10, then put the external drive in and copy your backup over

[MonkehMaster]

Początkowo opublikowane przez IcedLance:

Does anyone have any experience updating Windows 7 to 10 without losing all the data?
Can it be done?
I would HATE to backup and restore all the data and all the installed software.

back up everything you want to keep, its better safe than sorry.

grab rufus, a decent sized usb flash drive (8GB or higher) and win 10 iso from microsoft website.

run rufus, make the win 10 iso bootable on said flash drive.

disable your internet to the pc, plug the usb flash drive in and run the installation upgrade option.

choose to keep your programs, data, ect.. and let it install.

done, you are now "upgraded" keeping everything intact.

assuming you have a key, im not sure it will convert over to win 10 anymore, but i guess you can try.

at best you may want to check for driver updates, windows updates and run all your programs to be sure they work, or if they need to be reinstalled (likely at least 1 or 2 that have issue after OS migration).

or like mentioned by another, you could go for a fresh install, but i personally only suggest that to people who dont maintain their pc and thus have problems/issues with its performance and likely other issues, even ones that arent noticed.

also to note, win 10 will be losing support from microsoft by 2025.

[IcedLance]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}:

yes backup your personal data to external drive, wipe all ssd/hdd's in ur pc and do clean install

Thank you, that was utterly unhelpful. You are unhelpful. Your presence is unncessary.

[Guydodge]

Początkowo opublikowane przez pasa:

Początkowo opublikowane przez plat:

Get mad at- and sue Google and Microsoft. Valve had little choice in the matter and prolonged availability past a reasonable time, in my opinion.

Come on, man, don't join the morons singing the tune and spresing the BS. Valve had all the choice and have it and it's a trivial thing to issue a thin launcher-only client. What is requested for almost a decade. They cover by the chromium which was never needed to the essential features, for the spam. And they deliberately chose to ♥♥♥♥ on their aware clients while struggling to push more and more of their shop.


And it is beyond pathetic how outsiders are so happy that other people's game library is taken hostage and run ahead to throw salt into the wounds. :-(

nobody is taking anyone hostage they are letting it go nothing lasts forever and that
is even truer in the pc//OS world more so than anything else.if he chooses to let his library go thats on him for being stubborn.he also has the Linux option.but i guess its easier to complain.