Is anyone still using Windows 7?

dg1261 said:

Not to be pedantic, but technically it's Ukranian. And it's still there.

Sorry, I didn't find it last time I did a Google search but am finding it now. I had forgoten it was a Ukranian site. So maybe I should have said Russian speaking. OK?

I have subscribed to 0patch ever since MS stopped updating W7. Honestly I don't know what problems may have been avoided therefore what good it has done me, but I CAN say I've had zero problems in the years it has been installed.

MisterEd said:

I had forgoten it was a Ukranian site. So maybe I should have said Russian speaking. OK?

Yes, Russian-speaking makes a different distinction vs. saying it's a Russian site. With the current anti-Russian political climate, it's important to make that distinction lest readers extrapolate that to mean Simplix could be a Putin-controlled malware vector against the West. AFAIK, it is not.

Useful info here I am sure for my Windows 7 systems..

quartz1 said:

Useful info here I am sure for my Windows 7 systems..

Windows 7 is like a good quality dinner set (or an old but well maintained Roller): Look after it and it'll last you for ever

Windows 7 SP1 32-bit is the latest version for my old Intel Pentium 4 socket 478 computer. When I find some free time, I will do a clean install and load it with casual games. It is just fine for my 4 year old boy so he can play without risk ruining my main PC. He can even use it to download stuff for School a couple of years later. They ask them to download and print stuff from the School website.

spapakons said:

Windows 7 SP1 32-bit is the latest version for my old Intel Pentium 4 socket 478 computer. When I find some free time, I will do a clean install and load it with casual games. It is just fine for my 4 year old boy so he can play without risk ruining my main PC. He can even use it to download stuff for School a couple of years later. They ask them to download and print stuff from the School website.

Good for you. Though I fear that your young man might one day come home with a teacher's note recommending the adoption of a more modern Windows system. Stay strong

Let them upgrade the school computers first that are over 10 years old, at least in public schools.

and those school Chromebooks are really crappy with many bans, can access webs only offered by school. nearly useless. their hardware setting had been out-of-date from first day in classroom. such as 2GB RAM, 16GB storage.
I was shocked on it when my kid brought with it home for his home work first time. absolutely a piece of hardware garbage.

spapakons said:

Let them upgrade the school computers first that are over 10 years old, at least in public schools.

teckneeculler said:

Windows 7 is like a good quality dinner set (or an old but well maintained Roller): Look after it and it'll last you for ever

Seriously. My existing laptop was a Fujitsu A531 (i5 2nd gen), I got it in 2012-ish, and it's still going well, although the fan sounds like a plane taking off. (new SSD, new RAM, fan+vents cleaned out fairly regularly with a dob of heat paste)

in Feb 2024 I bought a Lenovo Ideapad 3 i5 11th gen to take some load off of the Fujitsu. I tried many things to get W7 working on the Lenovo, but the UEFI BIOS said no? 6 months of Windows 10 tells me I hate windows 10. I can back that up with a document.

Buying the Fujitsu A557 and the HP Probook 6570b, and installing W7 on them, and seeing everything compared to W10? it's almost like returning to an old friends house...

Win 10 with aero I may be able to live with. I tried a lot of things to get an aero theme on the Lenovo, which didn't work. there's been a few more suggestions in this thread I might try. I mean, seriously. W10 has 2 different control panels (settings and control panel), and 3 different settings interface styles. It's like Microsoft thought "yeah, let's change what all the main settings windows look like....but if you click "advanced options"?....goes back to Win 7 style settings interface. It's like re manufacturing the door of a car, but if you open it, the inner door trim is from the existing model. (yes, which happens, just a random example)