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

[bidulless]

hello

windows
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2025-Q2/press-release-webcast
mikeysoft company Revenue
https://www.askwoody.com/2025/ms-defcon-4-microsoft-begins-a-strong-push-for-24h2/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-24h2
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases
wsl a windows linux subsystem v2.4.9 is now available (w10p+)

linux
https://kaosx.us/
KaOS is an independent, built from-scratch Linux distribution, focused on Qt and KDE released v 25.1

tools
https://opnsense.org/
opnsence firewall tools released v25.1
https://mirror.wdc1.us.leaseweb.net/opnsense/releases/25.1/ ( linux tool)
it can be use under windows trought a vm and some change on your network adaptater card like pfsence ,may be a docker distro is allready available under recent windows (w10+ ) or just use a vm for w7
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[Mabi]

Microsoft continues to sabotage Windows 10 and 11, it is better to propose to have the source code of 7 delivered.

[Thermal Lance]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Mabi:

Microsoft continues to sabotage Windows 10 and 11, it is better to propose to have the source code of 7 delivered.

Good luck with that.

[A&A]

Windows' place is in the virtual machine tbh

[Lixire]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Mabi:

Microsoft continues to sabotage Windows 10 and 11, it is better to propose to have the source code of 7 delivered.

Yeah.. Good luck with that as this one will never happen. They did freak out when the WinXP source code was leaked as it can be a nightmare for security (even for those on the much newer OSes) and also different partners that do have a copyright license on their borrowed code.

[Thermal Lance]

Friendly advice for future Linux users.

If you plan on playing a game like Silent Hunter 3. Just go buy UBoat instead.

Almost went clinically insane trying to mod SH3 on Linux. lmao

I ended up succeeding, But, I'm not sure that amount of effort will be worth it for everyone.

[bidulless]

hello
just may be curious , but let's talk about your way of playing games would you ?
like are you using mods the first time you play a game ? and why ? or are you adding mods after you finished a first playtrought ?
for my case, i rarelly use mods , except some rare exception like some game i've finished and wanted to add some features like :
https://store.steampowered.com/app/200710/Torchlight_II/
and the mods available here on the workshop
https://steamcommunity.com/app/200710/workshop/

and usually i rarelly , if not never, add some 'graphical' mods but i can understand that people like to use some of them

in fact , despite i've published some of them here in form of news , i rarelly use them ... mostly i used some , for the case of torchlight after a full playtrought.

[Thermal Lance]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von bidulless:

hello
just may be curious , but let's talk about your way of playing games would you ?
like are you using mods the first time you play a game ? and why ? or are you adding mods after you finished a first playtrought ?
for my case, i rarelly use mods , except some rare exception like some game i've finished and wanted to add some features like :

Because Silent Hunter 3 is a good game. But, it becomes godlike with GWX and 1920x1080 UI.

Also, I own SH3 since it has been released.

Edit: I usually play vanilla first, unless there is some REAL go-to mod. Sometimes the community out-do the devs.

[Nosteru]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von bidulless:

hello
just may be curious , but let's talk about your way of playing games would you ?
like are you using mods the first time you play a game ? and why ? or are you adding mods after you finished a first playtrought ?

For me it depend on game. Sometimes I use mods after I get bored, sometimes I add midtime some useful QoL. Mods not always change a game, but add basic good QoLs or visual enhance to the game. Basicaly you can turn a game more to your likeing. :)

I also can go extreme like in World of Warcraft where I used around 100 addons (mod), true I played WoW for extreme unhealthy long time (for 15 years with around 3 year played time).

[Lixire]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von bidulless:

hello
just may be curious , but let's talk about your way of playing games would you ?
like are you using mods the first time you play a game ? and why ? or are you adding mods after you finished a first playtrought ?
for my case, i rarelly use mods , except some rare exception like some game i've finished and wanted to add some features like :
https://store.steampowered.com/app/200710/Torchlight_II/
and the mods available here on the workshop
https://steamcommunity.com/app/200710/workshop/

and usually i rarelly , if not never, add some 'graphical' mods but i can understand that people like to use some of them

First playthrough - mods that fix only basic functionality like missing 21:9 support
Second and onwards that's where I feel more comfortable with mods. seeing how I could make the experience for myself better

[bidulless]

hello
interresting answers for all of you atm.
it seems we have differents point of view about mods and what to expect for them :
- qol
- content added
- graphical update more or less like @Lixire pointed
- fixing bugs
but beware about bugs fixing, because it not mandatory will happen in your first playtrought ...
anyway all your answers are interresting
i guess the game in which i used the most mods was quake , because i used so many mods that i do not have any fingers on both hands to count them and sadly i just remember some of them ( do not age ) xd
reaction quake, twcreeper ( the best ctf i ever played in all my current life ),....

[Nosteru]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von bidulless:

hello
interresting answers for all of you atm.
it seems we have differents point of view about mods and what to expect for them :
- qol
- content added
- graphical update more or less like @Lixire pointed
- fixing bugs
but beware about bugs fixing, because it not mandatory will happen in your first playtrought ...
anyway all your answers are interresting
i guess the game in which i used the most mods was quake , because i used so many mods that i do not have any fingers on both hands to count them and sadly i just remember some of them ( do not age ) xd

Once I grabbed Quake II again when I find out that ppl made alot of graphical enhance and for fun I tested some. Was a mixed experience playing the old game with more modern effects and textures.

Also I often use SweetFX/ReShade esspecialy in older games to made them more sharp, vibrant/colorful and SMAA or even HDR.

About QoL Mods: not once I noticed that Devs often made a game QoL based on some popular Mod. In other times Devs dont need to worry to add a QoL for a game because there is a mod for that so they can focus on bugfixing and content. Overall games and Devs benefit alot from mods.

[A&A]

I rarely mod games, and if it's going to be the first playthrough, I don't mod at all unless the game requires a fix or I can use DXVK (well, it is not really a mod) for better experience.

reshade is universal mod that allows you to add post procesing techniques in the games which I do sometimes.

It depends on the game

[bidulless]

hello
today something funny and it will explain you why you need to dig news yourself and not just be happy reading web site xd
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/retailer-newegg-sold-out-of-nvidia-geforce-rtx-50-series-gpus-within-minutes
the thruth is that from what i understand , neweg had 5 5080s and 3 5090s ....would have been a lot different if more would have been sold, surely but who really knows , only Nostradamus xd


security
https://borncity.com/win/2025/02/01/teamviewer-client-vulnerability-cve-2025-0065/
beware teamviewer users, it's time to update asap may be
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/law-enforcement-takes-down-two-largest-cybercrime-forums-in-world
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/fbi-dutch-police-disrupt-manipulaters-phishing-gang/

windows
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-offers-registry-workaround-for-broken-outlook-2016-search/
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-offers-workaround-for-outlook-bug-that-makes-clicking-scrolling-mails-a-challenge/
a bug has been discovered into the forced new outlook update , and mikeysoft is providing a "temporary" fix till a real one.

tools
https://github.com/tnodir/fort/releases/tag/v3.15.9
new release of this nice free and opensource firewall but sadly still no 'asktoconnect' feature .. ( win tool 7+ )
https://www.scribus.net/downloads/
Scribus is the Go-To Libre Desktop Publishing Application has been updated to v1.7.0(win tool 7+, mac, linux )
https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server
https://www.freeradius.org/
freeradius,high performance and highly configurable multi-protocol policy server, has been updated to v3.2.7 ( linux tool )

privacy
https://www.yahoo.com/news/amazon-secretly-tracked-consumers-cellphones-194559040.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/executive-order-state-department-sideswipes-freedom-tools-threatens-censorship

gameindustry
https://elite.bbcelite.com/
Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Apple II and NES
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-4-beta-2/
godot release v 4.4 beta 2

divers
https://www.nablaman.com/relay/about.php
a computer almost entirely out of relays, interresting to read. People have so much imagination for doing funny and working things

most of the time i prefer to see the bottle half full rather than half empty xd

[A&A]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von bidulless:

hello
today something funny and it will explain you why you need to dig news yourself and not just be happy reading web site xd
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/retailer-newegg-sold-out-of-nvidia-geforce-rtx-50-series-gpus-within-minutes
the thruth is that from what i understand , neweg had 5 5080s and 3 5090s ....would have been a lot different if more would have been sold, surely but who really knows , only Nostradamus xd

Artificially creating a shortage of video cards. Classic.
Oh well, RTX5090 costs 3-4K euro by a retailer.