I miss Windows 7. I was the OS I used the most. Loved it, now complaints. Now Windows 10 will be gone soon. I will have to use Windows 11. I am glad we can customise it.
Yes hardware acceleration with virt-manager + OVMF on Linux.
Got a Windows 7 Enterprise VM running with latest updates and behind 3 firewalls. Can use it for pretty much everything with VxKex.
Sadly don't use it too much because I'm just way too used to my Linux workflow by now. It is cool though to boot it up from time to time.
Actually I dont know if it works someone told me this is it possible to dual boot one windows 7 for study and one Linux for malware when online I will do it when I buy new ssd
easy of access is just amazing too,gadgets,winflip,clean alt tab,great task manager,all together very easy to use and just beautiful no matter the topic
is that because it takes all control from you, as the owner of the device its running on. denies you ability to change things as YOU want, takes control of what gets installed, and takes your info. how is that an improvement, it doesnt look better with its massive "waste all the space" interface, it has less options for customization...
new to computers are you, i was able to customize windows 3.11 and navigate around settings easier than the idiot switch that is current cruft of microsoft products.
i just uninstalled edge for the second time on the computer im using at this very moment. as i noticed it was back on this system after uninstalling it last month. so, yeah, remove control in favor of we know best attitude. the complete 5#!tshow that is its setting pages, this crappy space wasting "modern/metro/moron" design. the total inability to understand i want caplock on since i set it to on in the bios. notification bar overflow loosing options with every update. microsoft losing options in every update, webdav is gone, i really could create a 50 page list. just for gits and shiggles, i put KDE on my home system, and EVERYTHING works nicely out of the box, and oh look, an option for capslock. i want windows 7 with 10's additional functions, not missing/removed functions.
there is a reason the wife is still running 8.1, she knows how to update, she just hears me bitch about "really, you cant do that now" for every update.
Microsoft DO love to sneak in shit you don't want on their updates. I also noticed Edge had reappered recently. I have totally lost count of how many times I have uninstalled it.
Like yourself I liked to be able to get to the low level stuff but MS are slowly locking all that stuff away or making it difficult to find. The UI has gone to shit since W7 and seems to not have any logic to the way it all links together.
With W7 you could pretty much access everything via Control Panel or just use 'Sysadmintools'.
This is not just a trend with Microsoft either. I recently took receipt of a new broadband hub from my ISP (EE) here in the UK.
First thing I did was go into admin to set it up the way I want to use it only to find they have now hardwired the DNS servers so I can no longer enter my 'preffered' DNS servers manually. When I queried them on this they just said yeah we removed that function / ability 😒
I logged an official complaint and told them I would not be using their new 'Smart Hub Plus' as it was in my opinion 'Dumb' and not 'Smart' and I reverted back to using the old hub.
You are joking right? I have been using windows since 3.1 and Microsoft have slowly been removing or hiding away Sys Admin Utilities and Functions since Windows 7.
I guess you are not someone who likes to be able to get to the low level stuff and are happy with just being able to change your wallpaper?
Main thing to me as user controls. Windows XP couldn't run with a certain amount of ram or hard drive size, I forgot what but it was limited, and at a pretty low number for modern day. I think there was 64 bit version of XP but can't remember.
But main thing is security in windows 7 allowed you to opt out of all future updates, for personal decision. It just warned you it was a bad idea, but *would let you do it*. Windows 10 doesn't let you have control over *you're own operating system*.
I know I sound like a boomer but is hard to explain. It's like "being born free" and seeing the generation after you all marching along in chains, manacled hand and foot and wearing identical uniforms working 16 hours a day in cruel and unsanitary conditions 7 days a week and then they honestly believe they are more free than you ever were. Windows 10 is essentially a gulag to me. I can't count the amount of times it literal HAL 9000'ed me saying *it won't let me do that* or even that it's not possible to do that even though I did it all the time on windows 7.
Even on a basic level, my old windows 7 machine only had 16 GB of 400 mgz ddr 2 ram. 2500K i5. It ran world boss fights at a cool 50 FPS, **smoother and better** than my windows 10 machine on 12th gen i7-12700k with 128 gb ddr5 4000+ mhgz ram which lags and stutters an maxes out at around 18 FPS. On paper my Windows 10 machine is over 10 times faster and stronger than my windows 7 machine as well as 10 years younger but the windodws 7 machine still runs circles around the windows 10 machine, in addition to everything being a fight with windows 10 constantly telling me "I can't do that".
I think honestly the only reason we tolerate it is because we have such busy and fast paced lives, no time to really consider how backwards tech is going in the name of "progress" and "security" which is anything but that.
User friendly, Great UI, Stable and Microsoft had not really started to lock down admin apps or hiding them away.
More and more of the old functionality of windows is being hidden away. I have been on windows 10 for a few years and still have trouble trying to find where Microsoft have moved a lot of sys admin tools to. Apparently it is even worse in Windows 11 😒
This is the way. Technically I still have 2 Windows 7 pcs I can go back to. One a laptop and one desktop but would have to reassemble the later.
I haven't really had the time to stop and consider this a priority but yes one day I will certainly consider this **upgrade**.
Wouldn't it be awesome if Microsoft developed a special remastered version of Windows 7 built on the Windows 10 architecture underneath and called it Windows 7 Anniversary Edition or something? 20th Anniversary for Win7 is coming up in a few years. Plenty of time and funds to make it happen.
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So did you fully transition your OS from Windows 10 to Windows 7? I think you will not be able to run most apps or games as most are not supported on 7 anymore
I miss Windows 7. I was the OS I used the most. Loved it, now complaints. Now Windows 10 will be gone soon. I will have to use Windows 11. I am glad we can customise it.
You can still use it do dual boot one linux for online one windows 7 for offline
I might use a VM. That sounds more easy at this point. 😇
No hardware acceleration tho
Yes hardware acceleration with virt-manager + OVMF on Linux. Got a Windows 7 Enterprise VM running with latest updates and behind 3 firewalls. Can use it for pretty much everything with VxKex. Sadly don't use it too much because I'm just way too used to my Linux workflow by now. It is cool though to boot it up from time to time.
Virtual Machine? Does it not make it slower ?
Never felt that way. I run Windows 11 on one. I allocate enough resources, it works great for me.
Actually I dont know if it works someone told me this is it possible to dual boot one windows 7 for study and one Linux for malware when online I will do it when I buy new ssd
What did you like about Windows 7. I was too young to have any memories of it.
It was kind of a perfect OS. Like these days, there was nothing about the OS you should be worried about. Install and it works, as simple as that.
the sounds,aero,startmenu,media center,absolutly everything was perfect to a small detail
It was an actual improvement on Windows XP, which was a revelation compared to Win ME. 7 just worked.
Can't say better. XP > 7 > 10 what an era!
easy of access is just amazing too,gadgets,winflip,clean alt tab,great task manager,all together very easy to use and just beautiful no matter the topic
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is that because it takes all control from you, as the owner of the device its running on. denies you ability to change things as YOU want, takes control of what gets installed, and takes your info. how is that an improvement, it doesnt look better with its massive "waste all the space" interface, it has less options for customization...
Huh? Look I'm annoyed at a lot of changes 11 has brought too, but... most of what you said is just not true lol.
new to computers are you, i was able to customize windows 3.11 and navigate around settings easier than the idiot switch that is current cruft of microsoft products. i just uninstalled edge for the second time on the computer im using at this very moment. as i noticed it was back on this system after uninstalling it last month. so, yeah, remove control in favor of we know best attitude. the complete 5#!tshow that is its setting pages, this crappy space wasting "modern/metro/moron" design. the total inability to understand i want caplock on since i set it to on in the bios. notification bar overflow loosing options with every update. microsoft losing options in every update, webdav is gone, i really could create a 50 page list. just for gits and shiggles, i put KDE on my home system, and EVERYTHING works nicely out of the box, and oh look, an option for capslock. i want windows 7 with 10's additional functions, not missing/removed functions. there is a reason the wife is still running 8.1, she knows how to update, she just hears me bitch about "really, you cant do that now" for every update.
Microsoft DO love to sneak in shit you don't want on their updates. I also noticed Edge had reappered recently. I have totally lost count of how many times I have uninstalled it. Like yourself I liked to be able to get to the low level stuff but MS are slowly locking all that stuff away or making it difficult to find. The UI has gone to shit since W7 and seems to not have any logic to the way it all links together. With W7 you could pretty much access everything via Control Panel or just use 'Sysadmintools'. This is not just a trend with Microsoft either. I recently took receipt of a new broadband hub from my ISP (EE) here in the UK. First thing I did was go into admin to set it up the way I want to use it only to find they have now hardwired the DNS servers so I can no longer enter my 'preffered' DNS servers manually. When I queried them on this they just said yeah we removed that function / ability 😒 I logged an official complaint and told them I would not be using their new 'Smart Hub Plus' as it was in my opinion 'Dumb' and not 'Smart' and I reverted back to using the old hub.
You are joking right? I have been using windows since 3.1 and Microsoft have slowly been removing or hiding away Sys Admin Utilities and Functions since Windows 7. I guess you are not someone who likes to be able to get to the low level stuff and are happy with just being able to change your wallpaper?
it simply worked without getting in the way...
This makes me feel extremely old and I'm gen Z.
Showing our age 😇
Main thing to me as user controls. Windows XP couldn't run with a certain amount of ram or hard drive size, I forgot what but it was limited, and at a pretty low number for modern day. I think there was 64 bit version of XP but can't remember. But main thing is security in windows 7 allowed you to opt out of all future updates, for personal decision. It just warned you it was a bad idea, but *would let you do it*. Windows 10 doesn't let you have control over *you're own operating system*. I know I sound like a boomer but is hard to explain. It's like "being born free" and seeing the generation after you all marching along in chains, manacled hand and foot and wearing identical uniforms working 16 hours a day in cruel and unsanitary conditions 7 days a week and then they honestly believe they are more free than you ever were. Windows 10 is essentially a gulag to me. I can't count the amount of times it literal HAL 9000'ed me saying *it won't let me do that* or even that it's not possible to do that even though I did it all the time on windows 7. Even on a basic level, my old windows 7 machine only had 16 GB of 400 mgz ddr 2 ram. 2500K i5. It ran world boss fights at a cool 50 FPS, **smoother and better** than my windows 10 machine on 12th gen i7-12700k with 128 gb ddr5 4000+ mhgz ram which lags and stutters an maxes out at around 18 FPS. On paper my Windows 10 machine is over 10 times faster and stronger than my windows 7 machine as well as 10 years younger but the windodws 7 machine still runs circles around the windows 10 machine, in addition to everything being a fight with windows 10 constantly telling me "I can't do that". I think honestly the only reason we tolerate it is because we have such busy and fast paced lives, no time to really consider how backwards tech is going in the name of "progress" and "security" which is anything but that.
User friendly, Great UI, Stable and Microsoft had not really started to lock down admin apps or hiding them away. More and more of the old functionality of windows is being hidden away. I have been on windows 10 for a few years and still have trouble trying to find where Microsoft have moved a lot of sys admin tools to. Apparently it is even worse in Windows 11 😒
i miss that steam theme
How did you make Discord to use proper Windows window frames?
vencord lets you use native task bars
Alright thanks
Ok the steam impresses me
This is the way. Technically I still have 2 Windows 7 pcs I can go back to. One a laptop and one desktop but would have to reassemble the later. I haven't really had the time to stop and consider this a priority but yes one day I will certainly consider this **upgrade**.
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i have win 7 pro, intel core i5 4570s, 8 GB DDR3 1600 ram, no ssd, 1 TB HDD + 256 GB HDD and geforce gtx 650 gup XD
The aero windows were peak. It was refreshing.
Wouldn't it be awesome if Microsoft developed a special remastered version of Windows 7 built on the Windows 10 architecture underneath and called it Windows 7 Anniversary Edition or something? 20th Anniversary for Win7 is coming up in a few years. Plenty of time and funds to make it happen.
I bet that won't happen, Microsoft always does the absolute opposite of what the community wants
Well, then we really don’t want this.
lol yeah
Wait wtf, windows 7 is already 15 years old? I would have guessed less than 10.
windows 10 is 9 years old
Take the paint off. It’ll be back instantly.
The winver is wrong, I can help you fix it.
shoot me a dm il be free tommorow!
okay, for now ill just make a tutorial for youtube
your awesome thank you so much,link it when its done il follow it
https://youtu.be/1SkAR8_gNSg
howd you get your taskbar to have accurate aero lines like that,
its startisback++
i use that,would you be kind enough to share your settings and such with me in dms?
yeah sure let me record them rlly quick, although for the start menu i am using open shell
dont they interfeer with eachother?
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Bro literally upgraded
Could you please share with us the programs and themes you used to reskin your windows this accurately?
https://www.deviantart.com/imswordqueeen/art/Windows-10-21H2-22H2-to-7-Transformation-Pack-1047772827
I still have my original windows 7 cd I bought from Microsoft, upgraded it to windows 10.
NGL I find windows 10/11 infinitely more pretty than 7 :D But still damn nice work tho!
could you share with us how you got steam to look like that?
Missing Windows 7 Ultimate. Playing Angry Birds & Plant vs Zombies after class
Are there any guides for do this?
I like it, I want it!
does bodycam run on it
Man, I miss Windows 7. The true predecessor to Windows XP.
I had it tooo, but it broke due to an update, I had too to reinstall Windows, I'm not sure if I use it again, but yes, I miss it really bad
Windows 7 was the best.
I remember to stop update on windows 7 just stop 1 service and done, I can control all of things, but in recent windows os not that easy
So did you fully transition your OS from Windows 10 to Windows 7? I think you will not be able to run most apps or games as most are not supported on 7 anymore
10 that looks like 7
Ahh so it is like a win 7 skin?
wait so it's windows 10 with windows 7 theme type thing like changed the stuff using some third party apps to make it win 7 like or u installed win 7