Is anyone still using Windows 7?

siliconbeaver said:

Indeed I have tried hard Windows 11 several times. sometimes, I even insisted a couple of months (forced myself to use it, saying, I had to learn it, I had to learn it, , ,). but eventually I gave up. move back to Windows 7.

Windows 7/11, both are OS.
Windows 7 is an OS for computer. IMO, it's last version for computer.
Windows 11 is an OS for mobile device. Windows 11/23H2 is the latest version for mobile device.

in tradition, computer user is skillful on keyboard usage, hot-key, combo-key, , , while, on Windows 11, most these features are truncated. you will need at least one more keystroke to do the same thing.
Windows 11 user may be skillful on touch-screen.

If on Windows 7 you hit key 1000 times a day. that means on Windows 11, will request 2000 keystrokes. that hurts my fingers.

(for example, to access "rename", on windows 7, one right-click mouse, then hit "Up" key. On windows 11, you will need hit "Up" key, then "enter", then select "rename".
to get PC "properties", to get "SendTo", , , will be similar , , ,)

Windows 11 has higher security setup. excel-macro, python pyautogui, , , many apps must run under "admin". that halts many auto-run scripts written previously on Windows 7.
complained to Microsoft about this. no reply/no solution. it's main reason that I wouldn't move to Windows 11.

support of Windows 7 has ended. no update/patches on Discord, FF, Edge, , , on Windows 7. that list will go longer as time goes. Windows 7 user is being cornered. we just need an OS for computer, don't want to "borrow" the OS of mobile device. while, Microsoft wouldn't listen to us.

I wonder if there is a way to untruncate those keystroke policies in Windows 11 in the future. Since Windows 11 is borrowing from a mobile device system, I wish there was a way we could jailbreak it and just make it run like an OS

Oh, thank heaven for 7 but not 11, or 10, or 8.1, or 8!

kuko7 said:

not exactly... Updates for Windows Server 2008 R2 are still ongoing until 2026 and since both share the same kernel, updates are fully compatible and you can apply it to your win7 system .
Also there are forks of Firefox and Chromium on github so you can still use the modern browser with latest features and security fixes.

I have much to learn. I had no idea you could update Windows 7 because of Windows Server 2008 r2. How do we look up those updates?

Download Simplix UpdatePack 7 - MajorGeeks

well, one option is to use Simplix UpdatePack7R2. It would be the easiest option to apply all updates in few simple clicks. Another option is to apply Bypass ESU v12 so your system would pretend to be Server 2008 r2, so Windows update offer you all updates for server and you can just apply it...

SkyChimp said:

I have much to learn. I had no idea you could update Windows 7 because of Windows Server 2008 r2. How do we look up those updates?

I didn't know this either. Can anyone here vouch for the Simplix updater being trouble-free? My last Windows updates (beyond the Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Malicious Software Removal items) were done April 2022.

Any obvious benefits/improvements from such?

The benefit is a more secure system. No Windows updating system is trouble free, for that you need Linux. But Simplix does work very well. with your current update config you should have little trouble with it.

Simplix has been down since 7/10/2024.

In my recent Win7 clean-install, I had to go Simplix last year's update. better than nothing. while hope it's up soon.

Did you try the link I posted above? I just tried it and it started downloading.