Is anyone still using Windows 7?

Thanks,

just did. its latest version. UpdatePack7R2-24.8.15.exe.

siliconbeaver said:

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.

Can you post a link for that?

Just follow this post by michael diemer

michael diemer said:

Download Simplix UpdatePack 7 - MajorGeeks

SkyChimp said:

Can you post a link for that?

I downloaded Simplix, ran it, installed 4 updates and then restarted. As soon as I logged in it ran automatically, installed a couple more updates and restarted again. Then I could not login to my profile, I think the warning message said I was logged in with the default profile or similar. My desktop background and icons were gone, the user folder on the desktop doesn't open. Thankfully I can access my data from C:\Users\username folder. What could go wrong? I am running System Restore to return to the restore point before running Simplix, just in case. Also I didn't like the fact that it started updating without giving me a list of available updates and let me decide what to install.

I will only manually run Windows Update from now on.

Windows 7 was released 2009, 15 yrs ago.
my daily work requests running of scripts of excel-macro and python previously developed on Windows 7.
I was stuck with old computers, such as HP Elite 7800-8300 because their re-installing Windows 7 was easy, W7 key was on the case, until I read this forum.

With SF's knowledgement I learned, my choice extended onto HP 800 G1-G3, later then G4-G6. their re-installation is feasible. newer computer is with more powerful CPU. but their activation is still an issue (newer PC no W7 key). for this sake, I better stay with HP computer.

I have tried and tested Windows 11 many times. the scripts running test time on same computer with Windows 11 was about 50% or 100% slower (18 sec on W7 vs. 28 sec on W11). For my apps, Windows 11 is NOT worth (faster CPU but slower result). it has too much bloatware.
Also, python pyautogui, auto run under administration , , , many techical issues on Windows 11.

As long as my scripts run faster and better on Windows 7, Windows 7 will be my main OS until a new OS can beat Windows 7.

indeed even Windows XP could run my macros and python scripts, but Windows XP doesn't support GPT, nor SSD. running test time is my gauge. hence I have disposed XP.

hazel123 said:

I haven't been on here for a few years, but just curious - is anyone still using Windows 7 and if so, how? Offline or paying for updates?

@spapakons

thats standard for Simplex, its not a one hit and done.The restarts are because of the way MS set up the update process, certain KB's require a reboot/restart to complete BEFORE the next can be installed

the loss of your user profile is not generally associated with a KB install, and as its not loaded then your customised desktop cannot be loaded

see the tutorial section for the fix

Hello, by the way. Apparently this is my first post. I'll put this sentence at the top rather than after, so that my second word on this forum isn't "loathe".

I loathe W10 and I'm not even going to try to touch W11.

I've just bought a Fujitsu A557 and an HP Probook 6570b solely for the purpose of installing W7. The W7 install on the HP has gone smoothly (so far). The Fujitsu A557 is giving me some hiccups and I might post about it soon. the i5-7200U cpu (apparently) isn't officially supported.

If you don't like the new user interface of Windows 10 and 11, there are tools to make it look as close as possible to Windows 7. You can even replace the system icons to look exactly like Windows 7. I have the Windows 7 start button and start menu (Open Shell), I have replaced the system icons with those of Windows 8.1 (Customizer God, Resource Hacker). I have the Windows 10 File Explorer without tabs and the Windows 10 taskbar right-click context menu (Explorer Patcher), the Windows Vista/7 gadgets (8gadgetpack) and the Windows 7 calculator, Paint version and classic Windows 7 games (Winaero utilities).

Hi, thanks for the heads up. When I got this windows 10 laptop in Feb this year (Lenovo Ideapad3 i5 11th gen, first laptop since 2012, a Fujitsu A531 i5 2nd gen to give you an idea of the step), I did quite a lot of searching around. I got the layout of the start menu, classic shell I think it is. But I did a lot of searching for an aero theme and gave up. The closest I got was Stardock Window blinds, and got......fairly duff results.

If you know of a skin that will give aero (like fuzzy-background transparent titlebar and borders, and especially the 3-4 pixel windows borders, rounded edges, I'd be all ears :) One of the issues with stardock (trying to set the colours for dark mode is a nightmare), is that chrome and firefox seem to want to force their own skinning, and "resist" attempts to skin them as aero

One of the things I especially hate about W10, is that you can take the mouse out from the current window about 8 pixels, and somehow, the mouse position still registers on the window. I don't know how W10 is a finished product

I've got background tweaks in place like disabling updates, the volume controller is now vertical, skype spotify and all that cack are stopped

tbh there are other things too. I hate W10's file explorer (quick eg, in the file open dialogue, the file list format is the vertical slider in the top right. in regular explorer, the file list type is now a 3+3+2 panel under an ambiguous menu. why is it different? the slider is better btw. just change for change sakes - the explorer coder obviously didn't tell the file open dialogue coder he was changing the adjustment method)

There is Aero10 which also works in Windows 11.
Aero10 for Windows 10 1903-22H2 by vaporvance on DeviantArt
And Glass8 which also works in Windows 10 and 11

Aero Glass interface on Windows 8.x+ - Experience Native Look

I tried one of them (don't remember which) but I could not configure the transparency to look just like Windows 7. In some applications the transparency made text hard to read if there was another application at the background (my default is the light theme). So I switched it off. I will try it again sometime later.

With Explorer Patcher you can select Windows 7 style File Explorer