Is anyone still using Windows 7?
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Got an iPhone 16 Pro a month or ? ago and only now have noticed that it does no longer reliably connect to my W7 Pro PC. I mean, if I plug it in with a USB cable it will beep and "Trust this computer?" and appear in Explorer as a Portable Device, but then after a minute or so it just Disconnects and is no longer available to me. It seems it might have worked with iOS 18.0 and possibly not with the .1 or the .1.1 update. Anyone here experienced the same?
It's not a W7 deal-breaker for me but I'm disappointed that now Apple's drivers seem to have left us behind also.
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Apple does such tricks to discourage use using Windows and use MacOS. Depending on your hardware you can dual-boot Windows and MacOS (aka Hackintosh) but each newer version of MacOS is increasingly difficult to hack and make it install on "regular" PC hardware. More details here:
Installation | InsanelyMac
Much better option: Dual boot Windows 7 and 11
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...Much better option: Dual boot Windows 7 and 11
Thanks but do you know that W11 works i.e. recognizes Apple iPhones as portable devices? I thought Apple had only one set of Windows drivers...
You're reminding me that Wife has a W10 gizmo I should try, duh.
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Have you tried?
I read many posts on Hackintosh.
no sure if any hardware requirement/limit (I can use one of HP 800 G3 to G6). besides MacOS, any software can chose to use? (Office, mail, Discord, , ,)
I don't like Windows 11 much (24H2 gets freezing up often). it's time to consider alternative as Windows 7 is going dim.
Apple does such tricks to discourage use using Windows and use MacOS. Depending on your hardware you can dual-boot Windows and MacOS (aka Hackintosh) but each newer version of MacOS is increasingly difficult to hack and make it install on "regular" PC hardware. More details here:
Installation | InsanelyMac
Much better option: Dual boot Windows 7 and 11
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...Windows 7 is going dim.
I have my days when I think I have to "upgrade" to W10 or W11 but it makes me sorta sick to my stomach TBH. I'm more inclined to change completely to e.g. the MacOS platform but I'm REALLY stuck on Quicken (Windows app far superior to Mac version) and another program called FileCenter that has no Mac alternative.
I know I can always dual-boot or Parallels or some such but then there are issues with my external hardware.
Life is supposed to get easier as one ages, not harder!
EDIT: OK so now I've tried my iPhone in a W10 computer and it's recognized immediately and sticks-around. So there's one point in favor of updating my W7 to W10 (and/or beyond) assuming I can even still do that w/o having to buy W10.
Last edited by maxseven; 26 Nov 2024 at 16:27.
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If you decide to use MacOS, you can install Wine to run Windows applications. Not sure if it runs Quicken. You can install Linux on a virtual machine, install Wine and see how well it works with Quicken or whatever else. Although I would rather stick with Windows XP than run MacOS or Linux. I have used them for the experience, but I would not make either my main OS. They are too limited in terms of hardware and software support and I value compatibility more than anything else.
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free upgrade activation win7>win10 has ended. If you installed win10 before it ended, the activation will be stored on ms servers.
win10 will be put out to grass in Oct 2025.
My System Two got probably one of (if not the) very last free activation on September 28th 2023. The was a brief window of opportunity between MS turning off the free upgrade path and turning off activation by changing the installed key to a Win7 key. I manage to sneak in through that gap.
While Windows 10 will be 'put out to grass' the activation will live on. There was no change to the the digital licence for Windows 11, so the same digital licence will activate either W10 or W11. I'm back to running W7 on my System Two now, but as a test it has had W11 installed and it activated.
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My old Vista machine 
, cracking little devil, rather short on resources, has been upgraded to 7/10/11, upgraded it back to W7, so i've no activation problems.... im running W7 on it now
>>in my opinion<< MS has moved backwards
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There's no reason (as of right now) that W10 can't be used for many years to come, just as W7 is still perfectly usable today, years after M$ took it off life support.
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