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

[AntiGrieferGames]

Also Tales of Grace F Remastered Does work on Windows 7 if someone knows how to workaround that, since this is based in unity 2022.
"bu.. but, today releases games dont work in 2025 on windows 7" that is not true! Even Holocure latest update does work if you obtain from itch.io.

[AntiGrieferGames]

Pinball Spire also works fine on Windows 7 when getting from GOG. There are still some games that still works on windows 7.

[AntiGrieferGames]

Първоначално публикувано от andreasaspenberg575:

aurora dusk: steam age looks like an interesting game. i would have purchased it if i could but, my bank have blocked steam. though it is on the gog dream list. i already voted for it but, it would help if you also did.

Have you tried to use gift cards on steam? This is the only solution i can help if you still have this issue.

[AyaSensei067]

Firefox 115.22.0esr is out for Windows 7 and 8.1 users!

[Ontrix_Kitsune]

Първоначално публикувано от AyaSensei067:

Firefox 115.22.0esr is out for Windows 7 and 8.1 users!

Of course it is. Mozilla said they would support it through fall 2025 and it's not fall 2025 yet. Windows 7 Getting a new version of firefox now isn't newsworthy: It's expected.

[bidulless]

hello

windows
https://github.com/microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-scripts/blob/master/scripts/RemoveDefaultApps.ps1
a debloat script made my mikeysoft itself, funny no ? xd
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/kb5055622-windows-11-insider-beta-build-26120-3671-24h2-april-3.34873/
note that using uudump you can build an iso whose incorporate all this stuff

linux
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[e-mail]/
linux 6.15 released
https://tails.net/news/version_6.14.1/index.en.html
Tails is a portable operating system that protects your privacy and helps you avoid censorship.now on 6.14.1

amigaos
https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/news
New Update 3 for AmigaOS 3.2 Available for Download

tools
https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy (win7+-vxkex/linux/mac)
dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols updated to v2.18 (seems now goland does not support w7 anymore..)
note : imo do not use it (w7 user) because no need to let a tool constantly running on your os with dll injection so better stick to 2.15 ...
https://github.com/oerg866/win98-quickinstall (win7+/lnux/mac)
This is a framework that is intended for creating and preparing Windows 98 installation ISO images in a way that is optimized for extremely quick installation, similar to nLite, but with a completely different method and context.
https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate (w10+/linux/mac)
A special build of curl that can impersonate the four major browsers: Chrome, Edge, Safari & Firefox
https://github.com/thevxn/dish (win7+-vxkex/linux)
A lightweight monitoring service that efficiently checks socket connections and can be configured remotely
https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka (w10+/linux/mac)
Czkawka is a simple, fast and free app to remove unnecessary files from your computer.(note that some are working on w7+vxkex)

'ai'
https://ssrc-static.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/OpenAI-Training-Violations-OReillyBooks_Sruly-OReilly-Strauss_SSRC_04012025.pdf
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/researchers-suggest-openai-trained-ai-models-on-paywalled-oreilly-books/
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai
deepseek repo

gameindustry
https://github.com/luskaner/ageLANServer (w7+vxkex/linux/mac)
Age LAN Server is a web server that allows you to play multiplayer LAN game modes without having an internet connection to the game server ensuring the game LAN functionality is still available even if the official server is in maintenance or is eventually shutdown
https://github.com/louis-e/arnis (w10+/linux/mac)
This open source project written in Rust generates any chosen location from the real world in Minecraft Java Edition with a high level of detail

privacy
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/judge-rejects-governments-attempt-dismiss-eff-lawsuit-against-opm-doge-and-musk

security
https://cyberalerts.io/vulnerabilities
New Threat and Vulnerability Intelligence Database

[A&A]

Първоначално публикувано от bidulless:

hello

windows
https://github.com/microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-scripts/blob/master/scripts/RemoveDefaultApps.ps1
a debloat script made my mikeysoft itself, funny no ? xd

lol, the last week I made for myself a script that has the same goal.

Anyway, I see this one removes packages that in a clean install should not exist in the first place.

[bidulless]

Първоначално публикувано от A&A:

Първоначално публикувано от bidulless:

hello

windows
https://github.com/microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-scripts/blob/master/scripts/RemoveDefaultApps.ps1
a debloat script made my mikeysoft itself, funny no ? xd

lol, the last week I made for myself a script that has the same goal.

Anyway, I see this one removes packages that in a clean install should not exist in the first place.

hello
aye ,) i also discovered myself many packages i was not aware of xd
and there is also many pws interresting script here too
i wasn't not too bad ,)
https://i.postimg.cc/Dw59C0Qb/Capture.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/bwCzZ3BM/Capture.jpg
but keep in mind that debloating is only one face of the job that need to be done ...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-windows-11-endpoints
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-windows-1809-endpoints ( outdated ... )

[Nosteru]

Beware of some malicious comment you might find on your profile.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3457800190

In my case it was always set it on "friends only".

[GigaCars]

Първоначално публикувано от Nosteru:

Beware of some malicious comment you might find on your profile.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3457800190

In my case it was always set it on "friends only".

they seem to just be desperate now(the hijackers i mean)

[bidulless]

Първоначално публикувано от Nosteru:

Beware of some malicious comment you might find on your profile.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3457800190

In my case it was always set it on "friends only".

hello

nice find, ;)
unfortunately for my case i have nothing to read it ( no smartphone ) xd
aye you can do that with other tools, but honestly this is not something i would do , expecially from a steam profile

[Mozetronick]

Първоначално публикувано от Nosteru:

Beware of some malicious comment you might find on your profile.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3457800190

In my case it was always set it on "friends only".

I just tried googling the site "dqhongyi.leaper.ltd" and I came across dozens of reports about the contained Trojan on the final link. So the rumors weren't lying.

[bidulless]

hello
just curious :
how many of you windows 7 users have a datastore.edb located inside this folder
C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore

[andreasaspenberg575]

i do not have it at the very least. there is no files within my virtualstore folder, only folders and that is program files (x86)\dosbox.0.74. there is nothing inside it however.

[bidulless]

Първоначално публикувано от andreasaspenberg575:

i do not have it at the very least. there is no files within my virtualstore folder, only folders and that is program files (x86)\dosbox.0.74. there is nothing inside it however.

hello

thx @andreasaspenberg575 , because this file is 1.5go xd
and it has been created in 2022 ... when the original datastore.edb is somewhere else with around the same weight but both files are differents ... not the same sha-1 and those in this folder does not have reccord inside past 2022 ( around 15 tables inside ...)
original place for this is
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore