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No actual way your copy of Starter Office survived 2 major OS upgrades with the main functionality still intact.
No actual way your copy of Starter Office survived 2 major OS upgrades with the main functionality still intact.
I know it's an old thread but so what. Recently joined. I have several systems with Win7 Pro that I've maintained, tweaked, repaired, etc, all in daily use for myself and other users since their original builds, despite motherboard repairs/replacements and other hardware redo's. They're included in my private remote service. They are all online for the net and intranet, but some are full-fledged net crawlers including primary emailers (no social media). I also have 10 and 11 all tweaked to increase their efficiencies and privacy. I'll maintain this setup for as long as I'm able being a component level tech for 50 years, retired, and still at it.
Good for you. W7 forever!
I recently upgraded an old Intel Celeron PC from XP to Vista and then to 7. For the discrete nVidia Geforce 440 MX with AGP 8x model I installed the Windows XP driver (XPDM mode) since there is no WDDM driver. DirectDraw acceleration works OK, Direct3D acceleration produces a BSOD, although it worked perfectly in XP. Using MPC-HC I discovered that the DirectX 7 renderer works OK, while the DirectX 9 renderer produces a BSOD (it worked fine in XP). So there is some incompatibility with the DirectX 9 implementation in Windows 7.
Question: I have already disabled DirectDraw and Direct3D acceleration in Display troubleshooting settings, but is there any way to disable only Direct3D acceleration and leave DirectDraw acceleration enabled, so at least the screensaver works? Is there any wrapper to convert DirectX 9 to DirectX 7 so it doesn't crash?
Hi guys, im still using Windows 7 on a few systems. I have it on my latitude e6420 which i purchased recently just to bring back some childhood memories (and to max it out with better RAM, CPU and SSD), and on my HP pavilion p6330f which has a triple boot config (10, 7 and XP). Glad to see other people out there who are still using 7 to this day
For Geforce 440 MX Windows 7 driver
I did google, you can try the two solutions in the link
Drivers for NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X (Windows 7) - Super User
indeed, sevenforums here had the discussion too.
HELP driver for geforce 4 mx 440 agp8x
Windows 7 Was a good friend......but the apps stoped updates in windows 7 so i changed to windows 10 on my main but i still have a old desktop runs win7
Million Thanks! This older driver for Windows XP Media Center Edition supports up to DirectX 8.1 which is implemented properly on Windows 7. DirectX 9 is implemented differently from XP and hence the crashes due to incompatibility. I installed this older driver and started Windows Experience Index which completed without BSOD. Of course the score is 1.0 because of no Aero (to enable Aero you need a score of 2.0 or higher), but who cares! I then tested my screensavers, they all worked! I then loaded MPC-HC and changed the renderer to DirectX 9. It didn't work, there was an error it could not start Direct3D 9 or similar, since the driver supports at to DirectX 8.1 I returned to DirectX 7 renderer and it plays my videos, this time without stuttering because there is some acceleration. Perfect! I could not ask more from such an old card as my Geforce 440 MX with AGP 8x acceleration. I don't want more, I only wanted the same performance as in Windows XP.
Thanks again!
Just out of curiosity, I checked for newest Windows 7 graphics drivers for my nVidia Geforce 1050 Ti. Should I want to dual boot with Windows 11 and Windows 7, for Windows 7 64-bit there are fairly recent drivers. For Windows 7 32-bit the latest drivers are from 2018. Of course with 16GB RAM it doesn't make sense to install 32-bit (unless you use patchpae3 to force Windows 7 32-bit see the whole RAM), but I just wanted to know.