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

[Ontrix_Kitsune]

I don't ever install any of the "Security" driver updates from Nvidia. There's no reason as they don't do anything. Just go back to the last "full release" driver instead.

[bidulless]

hello
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-blocks-free-windows-11-24h2-system-requirements-bypass-app-as-potential-malware/
rofl xd

[bidulless]

hello
seems i forget to post this , may be you will find something for your taste

tools
https://nginx.org/
nginx is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server
it's time to upgrade to ngx to v1.27.4 as it close a cve about tls (w10+ and linux )
https://developer.chrome.com/release-notes/133
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/chromium_browser_vs_google_chrome.md
chrome and chromium has been updated to v133 and cef will be soon updated ( w10+)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/135.0/releasenotes/
firefox is now on v135 and all others ESR branch has also been updated ( various+ )
https://curl.se/
command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs has been updated to 8.12.0 (winxp+, linux, mac,amigaos,etc long list of os)
https://github.com/DiscordMessenger/dm
Discord Messenger for Windows (w2000+)
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/tag/2.4.0
one of the best video player updated to 2.4.0 (w7+)
https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer/
ONLYOFFICE has been update to 8.3 with many improvments (w7+,linux)
https://www.palemoon.org/
pale moon is now 33.6 (win7+ , linux , mac )
https://80.lv/articles/blender-4-4-officially-entered-beta/
https://github.com/blender/blender
Blender 4.4 Officially Entered Beta (w10+,linux)
https://github.com/electron/electron/tags
electron is now updated to v36.0.0 (w10+)

linux
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/releases/tag/v24.10.0
Linux operating system targeting embedded devices has been updated to v24.10.0 (w7+,linux,mac,amigaos,etc)
https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/7/9
bad news ....
https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/tags
whine is now on 10.1
https://tails.net/
tails has been updated to 6.12 (w10+,linux,mac)

windows
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-releases-windows-11-beta-build-226354880-with-fixes-and-paint-updates/
ps ; a beta of a beta ???
https://www.askwoody.com/2025/ms-defcon-1-controlling-features-24h2-pushed-hard/
https://borncity.com/win/2025/02/08/windows-11-24h2-oct-nov-2024-patches-prevent-update-installation/

security
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/massive-brute-force-attack-uses-28-million-ips-to-target-vpn-devices/
https://www.hkcert.org/security-bulletin

gameindustry
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/paradox-acquires-haemimont-games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRVRioN4GwA
What Kind of Math Should Game Developers Know?
https://iquilezles.org/articles/
many interresting articles for gamedev here

privacy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/uks-demands-apple-break-encryption-emergency-us-all
wtf ...

[r.linder]

Distro hopped to Bazzite to see what it's all about, it's the closest thing to SteamOS at the moment

Also just upgraded to an i9-12900K and DDR5-7000 CL32 from 10th gen with DDR4-3200 CL16

[BionicSeaSerpent]

Originally posted by r.linder:

Distro hopped to Bazzite to see what it's all about, it's the closest thing to SteamOS at the moment

Also just upgraded to an i9-12900K and DDR5-7000 CL32 from 10th gen with DDR4-3200 CL16

we'll get an official ISO shortly. valve did announce that it would be coming soon as a beta a few weeks ago.

[Nosteru]

An interresting concept of survivor bullet heaven.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3339780/Desktop_Survivors_98/
Cool retro feeling.

[AyaSensei067]

So I am going to be dual booting Windows 7 and 11, the reason for this is because Roblox ended support for Windows 7.

However, Windows 11 will be installed on my 5400 RPM HDD due to very low shrink space from my SSD despite having 80 GB of free space, We'll see how it goes. It probably won't be fast but not too slow either.

Whenever I need to play Roblox, I'll restart my computer and then choose Windows 11 as my operating system.

Don't worry, I'll still be using Windows 7.

[Lixire]

Originally posted by AyaSensei067:

So I am going to be dual booting Windows 7 and 11, the reason for this is because Roblox ended support for Windows 7.

However, Windows 11 will be installed on my 5400 RPM HDD due to very low shrink space from my SSD despite having 80 GB of free space, We'll see how it goes. It probably won't be fast but not too slow either.

Whenever I need to play Roblox, I'll restart my computer and then choose Windows 11 as my operating system.

Don't worry, I'll still be using Windows 7.

Hmm I will be real with ya... using 11 or any OS for that matter on that HDD will be absolutely miserable
The read/write speed aren't the reason why but rather the terribly low latency of HDDs

You might as well grab a small 120-250GB SATA SSD and just throw 11 on it. idk for how much they sell for in your region.

[A&A]

FreeBSD is so broken right now that I can't set up it normally... It is P.A.I.N
-Performance Anomalies In Nightmares: The RAM and CPU usage are on a roller coaster.
- Permission And Integrity Nullified: Somehow, even though I have the correct permissions, I can't install or access the folders to run/install Steam, either with Wine or Linuxulator.
- Painful Abrupt Interruptions (Notorious Crashes): Switching from the DE to the virtual terminal results in a crash, even with the newest drm-kmod.

I guess will go and check another BSD. : /
Or go back to linux.

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

I'm finally free after a 6 month ban.... anyway. There was discussion of people obtaining the Windows 10 ISO in here recently. It turns out you can still download the official ISO direct from Microsoft's website and servers but you have to spoof the browser. This guide only works for chrome though.. but here's a link to it: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/how-to-download-the-windows-10-2004-iso-from-microsoft/

Once you have this downloaded you don't need the media creation tool. You can just use Rufus to put it on a USB flash drive and boot it. Despite what the URL Says, the microsoft website will automatically offer only the latest version. I just tried it and it offers Windows 10 2023 update (Version 22H2).

[bidulless]

Originally posted by 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊:

I'm finally free after a 6 month ban.... anyway. There was discussion of people obtaining the Windows 10 ISO in here recently. It turns out you can still download the official ISO direct from Microsoft's website and servers but you have to spoof the browser. This guide only works for chrome though.. but here's a link to it: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/how-to-download-the-windows-10-2004-iso-from-microsoft/

Once you have this downloaded you don't need the media creation tool. You can just use Rufus to put it on a USB flash drive and boot it. Despite what the URL Says, the microsoft website will automatically offer only the latest version. I just tried it and it offers Windows 10 2023 update (Version 22H2).

hello
and it was a pleasure xd
but you're a bit late on the subject

[bidulless]

Originally posted by A&A:

FreeBSD is so broken right now that I can't set up it normally... It is P.A.I.N
-Performance Anomalies In Nightmares: The RAM and CPU usage are on a roller coaster.
- Permission And Integrity Nullified: Somehow, even though I have the correct permissions, I can't install or access the folders to run/install Steam, either with Wine or Linuxulator.
- Painful Abrupt Interruptions (Notorious Crashes): Switching from the DE to the virtual terminal results in a crash, even with the newest drm-kmod.

I guess will go and check another BSD. : /
Or go back to linux.

hello
on vm on real comp ?

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

Originally posted by bidulless:

hello
and it was a pleasure xd
but you're a bit late on the subject

As I said: I was just "released" today. I thought the information would be useful to some so I tried to share it to be nice to others.

[bidulless]

Originally posted by 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊:

Originally posted by bidulless:

hello
and it was a pleasure xd
but you're a bit late on the subject

As I said: I was just "released" today. I thought the information would be useful to some so I tried to share it to be nice to others.

hello
i guess we talked about many times into this thread but yeah, one more time can't be bad xd
welcome back so

[Quint]

Originally posted by 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊:

I'm finally free after a 6 month ban.... anyway. There was discussion of people obtaining the Windows 10 ISO in here recently. It turns out you can still download the official ISO direct from Microsoft's website and servers but you have to spoof the browser. This guide only works for chrome though.. but here's a link to it: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/how-to-download-the-windows-10-2004-iso-from-microsoft/

Once you have this downloaded you don't need the media creation tool. You can just use Rufus to put it on a USB flash drive and boot it. Despite what the URL Says, the microsoft website will automatically offer only the latest version. I just tried it and it offers Windows 10 2023 update (Version 22H2).

Microsoft's websites are so stupid. Every single one of them are utter garbage. Try going back in a tab. You can't because there are 5 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ redirect links for no reason. Including minecraft.net.
Like, why can one get to the ISO download through spoofing? Not like they are two different versions. Maybe to discourage people from modifying the ISO with Rufus?Idk.