Windows 7 and new PC

[waywyrd]

Hi,

Recently purchased a new tower with latest i5 processor, only to find that Windows 7 updates no longer supported! No mention of this was made on the vendors website, though I hadn't asked for Windows 7 to be installed. Definitely didn't want Windows 10, so came with no OS installed.

Didn't find out until I'd installed Win 7 that the OS was no longer supported by this hardware. Not too big a deal for me because ultimately going for Linux as main OS.

Just wondering if anyone else forced to have Win 10 on their new PC?

Waywyrd.

[anon]

This artificial limitation effectively ends support for those using blacklisted processors, even though Windows 7 wasn't supposed to go EOL until January 2020. Fortunately, it can be patched.

https://github.com/zeffy/kb4012218-19

[waywyrd]

Thanks for the info. Will make a note of it for future use.

[sharaday]

This artificial limitation effectively ends support for those using blacklisted processors, even though Windows 7 wasn't supposed to go EOL until January 2020. Fortunately, it can be patched.

https://github.com/zeffy/kb4012218-19

Oooh, nice find!

[theaecassociates]

Thanks for the information

[anon]

You're welcome :turned:

Note that this only gets rid of the CPU check. If Microsoft starts releasing Windows 7 updates that are incompatible with these processors, there won't be much that can be done. It seems unlikely that they'd do it, though.

[Martinsmith]

Good to know about this.. thanks for sharing the link...

[Chewie]

I jumped to Win10 for my sins but ClassicShell makes it all OK again.
You do have to dig about and uninstall/turn off quite a lot of shitty M$ "features" and "apps" though.

[norival1992]

I didn't accept to upgrade. I do not want to upgrade to win 10. I did not click anything to upgrade. I am happy with Windows 7.

[blubber1875]

Alternatives are:
- linux with wine (for win7)
- vmware on linux (for win 7, no compatibility problems)
- virtualbox on linux ((for win 7, no compatibility problems)

[bolaqcom]

win 8.1 can do?
why hate win 10 ?is it because the update thing

[MacGyverSG1]

I'm sticking to Win7 for the foreseeable future. None of the telemetry updates were installed on my current build. I have no plans to build another computer any time soon. Maybe Windows 10 will be mature enough and tweakable, to use it in the future when I finally need a new PC.

That workaround is very handy. Just hope M$ doesn't disable it.

[jhonsuarez]

Something similar happened to me with my laptop, I tried to install W7 but it did not let me install drivers, I had to place W10 bound.