The Cozy Win7 Thread

[Nosteru]

Hello Again Fellow Community!

This Thread is about Win7. You can free talk anything about that OS.
Be technical issues you need help, the future and past of the OS, some fun story you want to share, your opinion about it, your advice, useful apps and such.

This is the place for everyone interrested or against Win7.

Just please be polite and try to respect eachother.

To Moderators: On this forum OFF-Topic comments are allowed for polite and healthy discussion.

Thanks
Eru

[lailaamell]

Początkowo opublikowane przez bidulless:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Ontrix_Kitsune:

You're just being mean for absolutely no reason. I sincerely hope the moderators are awake today.

hello
sur; so interresting and i hope you used "shaming and naming" because you can put whatever you want under theses words xd
Despite that, thx for the link of the guide

Now let's go back to something more serious and interesting for our readers...
https://www.ghacks.net/2024/12/05/windows-11-microsoft-sticks-to-system-requirements-despite-sluggish-conversion/
Funnny to see that server and iot sku are not subject to tmp 2.0 mandatory thing..... i wonder why ..

like ms is welcome to kill their company no one will accept tpm bull crap either way

[bidulless]

hello

this time it's something more funny but it will need time to read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook
i guess we will be able to do the same with our windows 7 xd

and nostalgia, nostalgia
https://kaiec.github.io/EstyJS/

https://herman.bearblog.dev/forced-to-upgrade/
"I just can't shake this feeling that I've been forced to upgrade to something worse."

[Nikonos]

Początkowo opublikowane przez bidulless:

"I just can't shake this feeling that I've been forced to upgrade to something worse."

Keep shaking Herman. You're right of course, but many will tell you this is only logical and better, and you are being stupid.
And- more importantly- they are smart and have a solution for you, Herman.

[Master.Constructor]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Nikonos:

Początkowo opublikowane przez bidulless:

"I just can't shake this feeling that I've been forced to upgrade to something worse."

Keep shaking Herman. You're right of course, but many will tell you this is only logical and better, and you are being stupid.
And- more importantly- they are smart and have a solution for you, Herman.

This is what it feels like (to me) being one of the few, million, Win7 users. I keep waiting for the real benefits and the real value to arrive that will make sense to me to upgrade. MS has been releasing many updates but I when I look at what's become of Windows I see very little upgrade. Am I missing something besides drivers / DX12 and Dark Mode?

[Master.Constructor]

Początkowo opublikowane przez bidulless:

hello

this time it's something more funny but it will need time to read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook
i guess we will be able to do the same with our windows 7 xd

and nostalgia, nostalgia
https://kaiec.github.io/EstyJS/

https://herman.bearblog.dev/forced-to-upgrade/
"I just can't shake this feeling that I've been forced to upgrade to something worse."

Thank you so much for these links. This is wonderful, quality, content. :)

[CygGame]

I never got to experience windows 7 at home with gaming and all that.

I did use it at work for quite a while and the layout and workflow is great.

I hate the 10/11 start menu and search function.

Isn't the biggest reason for needing to ditch 7 as the daily driver the security updates?

[Master.Constructor]

Początkowo opublikowane przez CygGame:

I never got to experience windows 7 at home with gaming and all that.
I did use it at work for quite a while and the layout and workflow is great.
I hate the 10/11 start menu and search function.
Isn't the biggest reason for needing to ditch 7 as the daily driver the security updates?

It all depends on your use case. In my case (and many of my friends / family), we have been using Win7 for ~15 years or so and have gotten used to it's issues and quirks. We don't necessarily need to use the latest software or games and most of what we do is still supported on Win7.

Security updates have been available up until 2024.10.10. November was the first month that the monthly security update was not readily available. The reason was due to browser functioning issues.

Win7 can still run Steam and modern browsers (Firefox / Chrome) in the form of r3dfox & Supermium and others. Until the day that Windows 7 ceases to be usable, secure and valuable, I expect most of "us" will continue to use it daily.

[Ontrix_Kitsune]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Master.Constructor:

This is what it feels like (to me) being one of the few, million, Win7 users.

It's much lower than that. Definitely less than a million people still use Windows 7.

[CygGame]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Master.Constructor:

Początkowo opublikowane przez CygGame:

I never got to experience windows 7 at home with gaming and all that.
I did use it at work for quite a while and the layout and workflow is great.
I hate the 10/11 start menu and search function.
Isn't the biggest reason for needing to ditch 7 as the daily driver the security updates?

It all depends on your use case. In my case (and many of my friends / family), we have been using Win7 for ~15 years or so and have gotten used to it's issues and quirks. We don't necessarily need to use the latest software or games and most of what we do is still supported on Win7.

Security updates have been available up until 2024.10.10. November was the first month that the monthly security update was not readily available. The reason was due to browser functioning issues.

Win7 can still run Steam and modern browsers (Firefox / Chrome) in the form of r3dfox & Supermium and others. Until the day that Windows 7 ceases to be usable, secure and valuable, I expect most of "us" will continue to use it daily.

Cool, makes sense.

I browsed for copies on ebay to have in case I ever go the urge to explore it, however all these sellers are trying to sell copies for brand new prices for this old OS. Hard pass for me.

if the OS drops down to around 20 USD i might pick it up.

[Nosteru]

The Market Share of Win7 is 2,47% but I dont know how many ppl this mean also I guess this included embedded systems maybe not just average home use.
https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide

[CygGame]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Nosteru:

The Market Share of Win7 is 2,47% but I dont know how many ppl this mean also I guess this included embedded systems maybe not average home use.
https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide

lol windows xp has a higher market share than windows 8.0

windows 8.0 was such a hot pile of garbage.

[Nosteru]

Początkowo opublikowane przez CygGame:

lol windows xp has a higher market share than windows 8.0

windows 8.0 was such a hot pile of garbage.

I realy dont know what they thinked at MS with touchscreen UI OS for average desktop use.

[Master.Constructor]

Początkowo opublikowane przez CygGame:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Nosteru:

The Market Share of Win7 is 2,47% but I dont know how many ppl this mean also I guess this included embedded systems maybe not average home use.
https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide

lol windows xp has a higher market share than windows 8.0

windows 8.0 was such a hot pile of garbage.

This is actually true. I was selling Windows 8 during it's release and it was ... awkward.

[Ontrix_Kitsune]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Crashed:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Master.Constructor:

It all depends on your use case. In my case (and many of my friends / family), we have been using Win7 for ~15 years or so and have gotten used to it's issues and quirks. We don't necessarily need to use the latest software or games and most of what we do is still supported on Win7.

Security updates have been available up until 2024.10.10. November was the first month that the monthly security update was not readily available. The reason was due to browser functioning issues.

Win7 can still run Steam and modern browsers (Firefox / Chrome) in the form of r3dfox & Supermium and others. Until the day that Windows 7 ceases to be usable, secure and valuable, I expect most of "us" will continue to use it daily.

Aren't you installing those updates illegally because they were never intended for Windows Client SKUs? The Client ESU updates also were behind licensing, and I'm pretty sure so are those Server updates you are repurposing.

They are. They're still advertising, promoting, and spamming the steam forums with all of this garbage about UpdatePack7. It's quite illegal. I've tried reporting every single comment that they write about it both for advertising (steam forum rules violations), spam (posting it in multiple different forum threads, also a violation) and illegal software practices (a third violation). The steam moderators don't care. They just let them run rampant around the forums routinely breaking multiple steam forum rules and they get away with it.

[Master.Constructor]

Początkowo opublikowane przez CygGame:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Master.Constructor:

It all depends on your use case. In my case (and many of my friends / family), we have been using Win7 for ~15 years or so and have gotten used to it's issues and quirks. We don't necessarily need to use the latest software or games and most of what we do is still supported on Win7.

Security updates have been available up until 2024.10.10. November was the first month that the monthly security update was not readily available. The reason was due to browser functioning issues.

Win7 can still run Steam and modern browsers (Firefox / Chrome) in the form of r3dfox & Supermium and others. Until the day that Windows 7 ceases to be usable, secure and valuable, I expect most of "us" will continue to use it daily.

Cool, makes sense.

I browsed for copies on ebay to have in case I ever go the urge to explore it, however all these sellers are trying to sell copies for brand new prices for this old OS. Hard pass for me.

if the OS drops down to around 20 USD i might pick it up.

You can download the ISO fairly easily, just make sure it's a SP1 release.