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If you have tried to install Windows 7 on a Surface Pro, or a UEFI-only device., you may have noticed it hangs on "Starting Windows" or gives error 0xc000000d, or you might have seen the following message: However, this article proves that it isn't impossible to achieve this. This tutorial shows you how to install Windows 7 on a Surface Pro. This tutorial is meant for the Surface Pro 1, but could work on any other UEFI-only device, which it should, but not guaranteed. INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Boot the USB. This ISO uses a Windows 10 PE, but has a Windows 7 install.wim. 2. Open command prompt by pressing "Shift+F10" 3. Type in setup.exe /noreboot 4. Go through setup normally. 5. On the command prompt, type in "diskpart" 6. Type in the following commands: sel dis 0 lis par sel par 1 (where your boot partition is) assign letter w exit 7. Open up Notepad, and click "Open" or "Save As". Enable all files to be viewed. Go to W:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot and copy the BCD file and paste it onto the Windows 7 partition. 8. Go back to diskpart by typing "diskpart" in 9. Type in the following commands: sel dis 0 sel vol w form quick fs=fat32 exit 10. Go back to Notepad, and click "Open" or "Save As". Enable all files to be viewed. Go to the USB drive, then go to the FlashBootPro folder, then copy the "EFI" folder. 11.Go to W:\ and paste the EFI folder. 12. Go to the Windows 7 partition and cut "BCD". 13. Go to W:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot and paste "BCD" on the folder. 14. Reboot. Setup should continue normally. NOTE: For some reason, Windows will NOT boot if any USB devices are connected. Any time you boot into 7, you MUST disconnect them, boot into 7, then connect them again. Wifi is integrated but doesn't work. You will need to purchase a separate USB wireless adapter. Proof of Windows 7 installed on Surface Pro 1:

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Good ! Victory ! I was able to put an upvote to your post in another topic ! Here looks like I'm still blocked.

@mina7601 Btw, I'm partially involved in improving some of the designs made by others for the ViStart start menu designs. I'm also open for feedback regarding that btw.

my replacement hp elite 8300 should be here in the next week so I can get back to using older windows versions

I'm (truly) sorry to hear that. Start now and wash away the burden on those 2 strong shoulders as you are not meant to take on the troubles of the world, only your own little bubble, so maybe meditate or prayer to ask for strength and healing energy. Palms up and look up never look down, only to tie shoes lol. ....

Fix Russia's behaviour on the international arena.

I use minibrowser and i am very happy from it. Dc browser and 360 are my alternatives

How would you define "good life"? Jeez, I don't know what to say. Some heavy burden...probably nothing I would've said would be new or helpful for that matter. Understandable. In the end, they're just words, not miracles. If we could transfer our bubbles far away...I don't know. Hey, anyone else knows Globus? Eh, we can do real-life conversations without concept of "likes". Not like that anyway. Maybe ease up on react buttons (everyone, I mean). It's feeling kinda forced in recent times. I have backup of OS partition for a change, heck even 2 backups, but unsure if it works there or not. And the latest is still older backup and some things were tweaked since. Ugh, life would be simpler with everything @ default. I'll leave it for now. Guess no weather widget for me. I mean it usually works for few hours, but I don't want to use it if it'll keep crashing. I'm slow and despite messing with computers for waaay too long, I still do a bunch of things the Flintstones way. Yabba dabba doo!

I'm counting on taking a vacation this year (my family usually takes a vacation to galveston every year but we had to skip it last year because of everything going on) so I'm ready for one!

I'm bored to death, I think I want a new female and then I think I don't, I tried to choose from the newly made ones and didn't find anything interesting. Also I don't have enough Euros, I think. I need to start a new business, maybe ? Or maybe find a job as a merc again, I dunno. I dunno what I want. Maybe I'm just tired. Maybe I have too much strength, I dunno anything anymore. What I know for sure - I'm going on a vacation and I want to find a place without russians and/or similar ones ! And you ?

Nope

oops missed one! 😄😄😄😄

I have installed Windows 7 on 300-500 series chipsets and Ryzen 1000-5000 processors, I myself have Windows 7 installed on a Ryzen 5950 with X470 chipset. The problems are standard for all new PCs, you need to integrate USB3 drivers, and if installing on NVMe, updates or drivers to support them. Also the installation disk needs to be made of 10 to have USB3 and NVMe support. Problems happen with G series processors, with integrated graphics, some motherboards won't install 7 while integrated graphics are on. I have not yet tried it on AM5 socket systems, although there are screenshots on the Chinese forums with 7 installed on the 600 series chipset and Ryzen 7000.

It's not just UXP they're targeting either. This undoubtedly exterminates Discourse on MyPal 68 too, since FF didn't implement this particular bit of Googledygook until FF 71. (And correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think FF/MyPal 68 will load "legacy" FF extensions like JustOff's; so MyPal 68 is completely out of luck. At least UXP has a workaround.) What a load of, well, you know. As if they can't even make Discourse work unless they use the latest Googledygook! Explains something I've wondered about from html5test.com: Never could understand how UXP managed to support VP9 but not VP8. Turns out, it does support VP8; it just doesn't "think" it supports VP8!

Enjoy and see you tomorrow :)

well I'm off now to watch the lord of the rings with my family see you all later!

Huge gratitude to the MSFN staff (mods and admin) here for keeping our forum safe and staying on top of this as I've also never seen it happen because I go to be early most days.

Nice.

.......... I rely on green tea nowadays and I do love lemon in my black tea with honey. Very happy to hear this!

I'm doing this right now!

Look at it this way, you are a member of another forum that does NOT allow new members to post LINKS. MSFN does not restrict new members from posting LINKS. At the start of the year, MSFN was hit MASSIVELY by NEW MEMBERS posting LINKS for cryptocurrency BS.

Never seen this cryptocurrency spam. Where do I look to see it, at what "correct times"?

I'm positive that you HAVE if you log in often enough and at the correct times of day. The admins/moderators are VERY FAST to DELETE/REMOVE the cryptocurrencty BS so you haven't seen them because the admins/moderators are VERY FAST.

I absolutely agree with you ! Also they could just be following the world sanctions (declared by all normal countries). MSFN is under European (Danish ? Dutch ?) jurisdiction. So MSFN ought to comply with the Euro sanctions (ie - ban everything Russia). It's a very serious matter, since the russkies are not allowed to use any western tech (software/hardware). I have a friend in Germany, he once told, russkie tourists buy drones for their military use, and the German customs is on high alert. Here they can read some pretty useful info, so no good, no good at all. P.S. Sorry can't put a reaction, maybe you already read. https://msfn.org/board/topic/183266-pretty-detox-posts/?do=findComment&comment=1237478

Why the MSFN board still unavailable from Russian IP addresses? MSFN admins, do you understand that it is very inconvenient for me to use a VPN or Tor Browser to access the MSFN board from the territory of the Russian Federation? If there is no serious justification, then please remove the MSFN geo-blocking for Russian IP addresses.

The new Inventory system works now on all Windows versions. The last update available is from March 2002 on Windows NT4.0.

Good to know that there's a solution for Discourse breakage. Thanks.

Regarding the recent discussion about discourse-based forums being BROKEN under UXP-based browsers (NM28/St52/possibly also St55/moebius), I found a related thread in the official PM forums: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=29327 The point in the thread where the recent breakage happened (i.e. implementation of the "??=" operator by Discourse) is this one ; the approach savvy members there took to address the breakage is to use JustOff's Modify-HTTP-Response (legacy) extension below: https://github.com/JustOff/modify-http-response/releases/tag/1.3.8 Once installed, go to "about:addons" and access that extension's options; locate the "Filters" input field; in the initially empty field, paste the code below: [["/global\\.discourse-cdn\\.com|community\\.(frontrowcrew|cartalk)\\.com|forum\\.(manjaro|openwrt)\\.org|forum\\.italia\\.it/",["/browser-detect-/",["/.*/g",""]],["/vendor-/",["/(t\\.discourse\\.hoisted|t\\[e\\]|r)(\\?\\?|\\|\\|)=(\\{\\}|\\[\\])/g","$1$2($1=$3)","n??=[]","n||(n=[])"]],["/discourse-/",["e.draft||=t.draft","e.draft||(e.draft=t.draft)","/(t\\.__registry__\\._typeInjections\\.service|[ne]|f\\[e\\])(\\?\\?|\\|\\|)=(\\[\\]|\\{\\})/g","$1$2($1=$3)"]]]] NB: You'd better use a proper code-editor to copy/paste, to avoid any errors... Then "tick" the "Enable" setting above the "Filters" input field... @msfntor : If you now visit https://community.brave.com/ in your UXP-based browser, (hopefully) the forum will load OK (it does here, with St52): I do hope you're happier now ... The inner-workings of the method is that the extension intercepts the UXP-incompatible JS code sent by Discourse and then transpiles it on-the-fly, based on the Search-and-Replace RegExp filter specified... All credit for the filter code belongs to PM-Forum members Kris_88 and adoxa ... @Art7220 : The procedure I detailed above seems to also work for your "own" Discourse-based forum: https://forums.mst3k.com/

mostly peaceful chinese balloon https://www.bbc.com/news/world-64514120

upstream aware this (#2097) but don't know when will it be implemented.

So Firefox 99 is working also i want promote vista kernelX reddit r/WindowsVistaExKernel

I've previously fixed spotify (it worked after ext kernel reinstallation), but now for example spotify gives me error 409("this app is for premium users only", if you search on google nothing shows) also tried installing spotify v0.9.14.13, and gives me error 409 but this time it says that it might be blocked by firewall (which is not), minecraft is totally offline (even if it's allowed in firewall and connected to internet). But browsers work, please i don't know how to fix this. Now i'm gonna update my ext kernel to see if it fixes anything (if not i'm gonna reinstall it) and i'll report if it fixed it. Edit: updating and reinstalling ext kernel did absolutely nothing Second Edit: Now everything works fine

Guys please help me it's really important, my internet connection only works in browser but not programs, i've tried enabling them in windows firewall and resetting connection, but none of this solved it. What can i do??

No. I tried. It's a tough denuvo-esque version check like node and Office 2019 setup.

This is the original version of Teardown, which uses a Windows 10 exclusive API function, SetProcessDpiAwarenessContext, running on Windows Vista with an upcoming update to user32.dll: Later versions of the game no longer use this function and as such will work normally on Windows 7, 8.x and 99.9% sure, Vista, though I have no proper way of testing DX11 games on Vista due to the age of my GPU. There are also other games known to use this function, so even though the developers of Teardown realized the demand for their games on older platforms, others may take a different attitude and force users onto the latest versions of Windows 10 to use their products. So, this will allow Vista/7/8.1 users to be prepared for such a future event. Since some interest has been shown in donations for my work, I have set up a method for users to contribute financially for this and some of my other works: https://www.patreon.com/win32

All ~1810 functions in Vista's ntdll are exported from ntext and then forwarded to ntdll. Then I added a large code section to house RtlQueryPerformanceCounter and future functions. Only applications that call RtlQueryPerformanceCounter need to use this wrapper ATM. You can go into CFF Explorer -> Import Directory and change the entry for ntdll.dll under the "Module Name" column to ntext.dll. That can also be done with a hex editor, as the only likely reference to ntdll in the application would be in the import/delay load import tables. I just decided to compile it with the SSE2 switch. the best that VC++ offers (though it may not do much for a wrapper DLL, admittedly). Since most Windows 7+ applications probably need SSE2 to begin with, I don't see much harm in this decision.

I tracked down the Perl script that effectively automates the process of making wrapper DLLs, especially for DLLs like ntdll which exports over 1800 functions: http://web.archive.org/web/20070526114542/http://www.craigheffner.com/security/linkout.txt This will prove essential for Vista and any future work for 7. And maybe even more so for 8.x and 10. Though ActivePerl 5.26's installer errored out with this: (0x80004005) the specified application is not a valid application for this OS platform. Indeed, Windows Installer definitely knows it's "running" on 6.1.7601 SP1 based on the error log. I found the executable for the "state tool" and it had a subsystem version of 6.1, so that may have been the reason for the error, so perhaps I will follow BWC and disable the subsystem version testing like he did, after all (which will only work with system32 file replacement). And just use Strawberry Perl anyway; it seems to work far better with Vista. On another note, it appears that a new hack in my ntoskrnl (not released yet) to prevent it from changing CurrentVersion from NT 6.1 to 6.0 in the registry has fixed some OS functionality. When I added CoGetApartmentType to ole32.dll, I could no longer modify Sidebar widgets nor open folders with downloaded files through browsers. But I can do that with my modified ole32 once CurrentVersion is changed permanently. But not everything thinks it's on NT 6.1 yet (like RtlGetVersion), which is still a big problem that no one has solved since it arose in 2005. Windows compatibility mode will not solve it.

I can't believe it's been so long since the most logical desktop UI was released. Windows NT API functions + DOS/win16 compatibility, FAT32 and basic USB support are pretty important as well. I started using Windows 98 long before I started with 95, but when I got my PIII machine, 98 was flaky beyond belief. I asked for opinions and some said that the near constant crashes were due to overheating. Then I went outside the next day. A razor-thin object hit my forehead and cut it. Turned out to be a Windows 95 OSR 2.1 CD-ROM. Used my 98FE OEM CD-ROM to boot it. And it installed with no issues. So those crashes were likely not related to hardware. My only problem was that the system would fail to boot or even be broken completely if the USB supplement was installed. But replacing the S3 Savage4 with a GeForce FX 5700 LE fixed it. I'm still quite satisfied with Windows 95, After Dark 10th anniversary edition, Office 2000 Professional and RetroZilla 2.2 (until MSFN broke in it earlier this morning due to apparent change in encryption. nice coincidence. ). I never, ever swap with 128 MB of RAM! I'd love to go back 15 or 20 years so I could run 95/98 as a main OS dual booting with Windows 2000 and not have to worry about compatibility issues. Seriously, since I dumped the Savage4, win95 has never given a BSoD or even inexplicable crashes of system executables (98SE did that to me often).

Don't worry about it dude. You can create a video if you like.

https://mega.nz/file/510F0D5C#IA6TYIdyzURFlAZfGsU4XX1Q3cCyi70rfGEYe4KQlC8 OK, this one was simply taking the reg entry from Windows 10 (and removing the MUI references) since I still need to establish how the hex translates to time change date/times but it works.

Welcome to the MSFN! The boxes prove that bigger is better.

Microsoft is known for its MiStakes, the biggest one of course being Windows 10, and I think accidentally revealing a premier support (now renamed Unified Support) update is certainly up there. Microsoft's Security Update ISOs from 2010 to 2013 had several Windows 2000 updates that obviously weren't meant to be publically released; unfortunately this method of update distribution ended in July 2016. Since it was released in July 2019 and is a non-security update, it probably falls into the same category as the Windows 2000 updates and wasn't meant for public release. The Unified Support sales number is 1-800-426-9400. Not sure how useful it will be though. Other than that, I found a reference to per-incident support (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4341255) but you need a M$ account to access it. For that, I guess you could say "my chain of supermarkets in Casablanca has the wrong time on their POSReady machines" and see what they could do for you, though I don't see anyone buying that.

Server 2008 is the obvious choice being closer to XP. All this update does is update tzres.dll (Time Zone Resources), but that file doesn't exist in XP. What I see in 2000/XP is tzchange.dll and tzchange.exe, which can be used to modify time zones, and OS updates seem to use this tool to modify them as well (9x uses timezone.dll and timezone.exe). We should compare with XP timezone updates. If done correctly, we will have a Server 2008 update backported to XP, 2000 and 9x! (XP's DST update was backported to 9x) Thing is that these omniglot NT6 updates are confusing. Anyone know of a tool to properly extract them on my NT5 machine? Forget some of that noise, actually. All we need to do is write an INF specifying the timezone changes (as listed in the support article), I believe, in the same format as an official XP timezone update. No need to go into 2008 updates. OK, so the changes can be summed up as: Brazil no longer has DST, affects E. South America Standard Time and Central Brazilian Standard Time Morocco Standard Time fixed, changed from UTC +02 to UTC +01 Now how to express that in hex... The reg entries that would need to be changed would be in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones, specifically Central Brazilian Standard Time and E. South America Standard Time. Under each is a "Dynamic DST" key with listings of DST dates (in hex) from 2004 to 2040, which means presumably Windows XP will stop changing from ST to DT after 2040. I think we can just delete the Dynamic DST entry for Central Brazillian and E. SA time because Saskatchewan time has no DST and no such entry, and simply modify the main key for Morocco Standard Time (which is somehow, still UTC 0 on my XP).

OK, some things have changed for the better. Unless you're using Windows 2000. Teams in 360 Extreme Explorer 11.0.2251.0 does work on XP x64, and probably NT 5.1 as well, but fails on Windows 2000. Only some minor cosmetic glitches seem to occur. Stuff like conferencing cannot be tested as I don't have a webcam handy. My laptop actually can't run XP due to issues with the inbox drivers, so it looks I'm going to have to put Server 2003 to use M$ Teams. At least no VMs are necessary. UPDATE: turns out that the situation with win2k is fixable. I think I just need to get mozglue.dll (and chrome_elf.dll?) to call XP's crypto files much like my fix for Office 2007.

When is flat everything to die? Modern user interfaces have a serious lack of soul.

I tried installing proplus, and it failed citing the failure of the "Office Software Protection Platform" service to install, then start. However, through a debugger I was able to get this to run:

All of @roytam1's browsers work with the extended kernel, as do most XP-compatible software titles, and a few smaller utilities for Windows 7 and up (Throttlestop, Acrobat Reader DC off the top of my head). The universal Boingo WLAN client supports more EAP methods than the XP SP2 native client. If you don't do DX10+ gaming or need modern MTP support, Windows 2000 still goes very far.

I see those win10 lookalikes and raise you Q4OS + XPQ4. https://q4os.org/index.html https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/ In Live CD form dumped onto a USB on a ThinkPad T60 it's not much less snappier than server 2003 on the TP's SSD.