Is anyone still using Windows 7?
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Thanks SIW2, I'll look for those. So, pretty much any 300 series should be OK?
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Yes as far as I know all the intel 300 series consumer motherboards work fine. If it comes with a wifi card that might not have win7 drivers ( e.g. ac9560) but they can be changed with a cheap card that does support win7 for about a fiver.
Canonkong : replace the WiFi card with 8260/8265AC,RTL8822CE,Killer 1535 which can work on win7.
If you don't use wifi it is irrelevant.
Last edited by SIW2; 13 Sep 2024 at 01:11.
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It you extract from he wireless driver in a folder, you could try manually force it in Device Manager. It might work and only the installer being incompatible with Windows 7.
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No. Some of the z390 come with wifi cards that cannot work with win7. It is not a problem. If wireless is not needed, disable it in bios. If it is needed replace the card.
Depends what you want. The advantage of b365 over the h310
6 usb3 ports gen1 ( instead of just 4 on h310 )
6 sata 3 ( instead of just 4 on h310 )
4 ram slots ( instead of just 2 on h310)
pcie 3.0 x4 m2 ( instead of pcie 3.0 x2 on h310 so twice the speed )
pcie 3.0 x4 port for an extra nvme with a cheap adapter or any other peripheral ( not present on h310)
pcie 3.0 x1 port ( instead of pcie 2.0 x1 on h310 so twice the speed)
some of the b360 have couple of usb3 gen 2 type A slots on the back panel
Last edited by SIW2; 10 Sep 2024 at 22:00.
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I use windows 7 professional anyways i do not care about ending support. i still use it.
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I hate 11 more so that 10. It's like they decided to hide anything useful. The settings menu seems incomplete and like everything else it's hard to get to. With both that and 10 the settings menu doesn't seem logical to me. For example recommended apps or documents under start menu (at least in 11), to change that you'd think that it would be under start menu settings. Nope. It's under personalization. It's a mess.
Last edited by townsbg; 09 Oct 2024 at 15:54.
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I hate 11 more so that 10. It's like they decided to hide anything useful. The settings menu seems incomplete and like everything else it's hard to get to. With both that and 10 the settings menu doesn't seem logical to me. For example recommended apps or documents under start menu (at least in 11), to change that you'd think that it would be under start menu settings. Nope. It's under personalization. It's a mess.
Yes, it just continue to get worse. It's like somebody decided, Hey, let's destroy Windows 7 and create a truly awful operating system. Well, mission accomplished.
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You can use Winaero Tweaker and other Winaero utilities to restore some "legacy" functionality in Control Panel in Windows 10 and 11.
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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?
I use Windows 7 because themes and free Microsoft Office.
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Follow the link then mouse over the graphic to see that W7's market share(grey) in July 2024 is 3.04%. I've no idea what this percentage equates to in user numbers but I'd guess at 50m to 60m. IMHO, this figure would be WAY higher if most W10 and W11 users hadn't been forced out of W7 by Microsoft. Windows operating system market share by version 2017-2024 | Statista
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I use Windows 7 because themes and free Microsoft Office.
Office Starter 2010? I have that too, very useful.
That was only available on OEM Windows 7 that came with Office 2010 pre-installed by the OEM. On first opening MS Office you had the option of purchasing Office or using the free Office Starter (Excel and Word with a few restrictions - no macros for example).
I had Office Starter 2010 on a W7 laptop, it survived the upgrade to Windows 10 in 2015 and, after migrating the installed OS to a new machine, the upgrade to Windows 11.
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