Beyond Windows 7

Megahertz07 said:

On the link MS releases SP2 for Windows 7 you will find all the offline updates

Thanks for the link...and for your work in keeping the thread current.

F22 Simpilot said:

Anything beyond Kaby Lake and it won't work. The motherboard manufacturers only have Win 10 drivers.

If you use Kaby Lake then updates won't work without a hack from Github.

Is there any advantage to using Kaby Lake & hack over going with Skylake or older?

My new Coffee Lake cpu laptop has 6 cores, compared to my older Haswell 4cores and is almost twice as fast in Cinebench15, so yes there is a reason to go with newer cpu. I bite the bullet and learned how to fix most of the major flaws in Win10, so actually it's not that bad and for everything else is Linux. My Win7 computers should run fine with or without MS support for at least few more years as well, so I'm not too worried, since by then PC will become irrelevant, being replaced by phone. As a matter of fact my phone can do about 60% of things my PC can already and some things PC can't at all.

You can stop all that with a hardware-based firewall like a nettop and Pfsense. That's my plan when I do go Win 10. I will be blocking all of MS's ASNs. If I need MS I'll use my VPN. I'll also watch the SNMP port and make sure the OS isn't communicating with other IPs it shouldn't.

No updates, but as it stands now, I don't use them. I do have about 4 for certain things, but that's it.

SIW2 said:

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It is possible to use win7 with coffee lake, it requires a separate graphics card. But only a tiny number of people need 6 or 8 cores.

The motherboards for a Coffee Lake CPU are 300 series and I've looked and the MOBO manufacturer only supplies Win 10 drivers. So whether those work in 7 I don't know.

For me personally, I require damn good single threading capability for Flight Simulator FSX. FSX is only single threaded and to make matters worse CPU orientated. The highest CPU I could do without going Xeon is the i7 7700K. My board is only a 200 series board so Coffee Lake is out. And I just built this computer two years ago. No way I'm replacing this perfectly good working board. And there's no way in hell's half acre I'm going Win 10 yet. Maybe in seven to ten years I will. LOL