Eddie Phizika

Any idea on how android emulators do with the extended kernel? i cannot use my machine to know it right now. I'm talking about something like bluestacks for light android apps.

Thank you for being charitable and concise in your remarks. I think you were essentially focusing on how microsoft is against old machines in general. This is a point i absolutely believe as well they want to do. they really want to cash cow people and companies out.

Sorry, i understand this is a win11 forum, but why exactly this has to do with using or not old computers in a more general sense? I believe most security issues in kernel exploits are quite overrated because there are ways to partially mitigate them. Desktop windows is becoming as ever as different in other aspects from the system which may turn this harder within time. I know there is a compatibility question with newer programs and program versions or native android applications, but aren't they quite manageable? I'm on windows 7 and i can see significant alternatives in my use. Sorry again i just don't see win10 and win11 even stable enough or performance-wise reliability safe for most production environments. Not to mention most companies are extremely tied to old hardware and are likely not changing if Windows NT is a requirement for their systems or software.

Excuse me? I'm not saying people should prioritize HTTP. I'm saying it's not an asserted guarantee that you will be in security troubles if you visit a http website if you do efforts to estimate its safety.

I would really love to understand where do people base their claims that accepting http, visiting certificate issue-ridden websites for a little while, using older operating systems, automatically risk you to a huge financial loss-private life damage-data loss-ransomware or whatever because well, it is said so. It seems to me like one of many dogmas and ideological tendencies inside computer science which are questionable, unilaterally imposed by companies in their half-cartels, and mostly to deal with simpler users and people who do not have a technical support in their homes to manage their machines or networks, or as a masquerading reason for obscure intentions. I can cite the idea of google to kill cookies.

No actual problem happening, security issues are MASSIVELY overblown by the same people who think TPM can save you from kernel attacks stealing your data uncrypted and firewalled older Windows NT is unsafe compared to SELinux +/or a full sandboxed blink-centered operating system or real time protection exploit protection miraculous defenses in "windows" 10/11, so here we go for (my dream) + 10-15 years of nt 6.0 (in my desktop) and 6.1 (in my laptop) and let obtrusive faithful rejoice in their massively paranoid ideological-dogmatic preaching

It's likely the vega 8 windows 7 custom drivers which are available on the web will not work. There are BSODs in Ryzen if i'm not wrong (i heard that at least) as well due to something i don't understand.

Why exactly is it a security prerrogative dogma to be followed that anything running must be virtualized or sandboxed? Even the OS is advocated to be like that by some. It seems completely miraculous and unbelievable from a system architectural point of view. I will not mention the dubious doubt of firefox (from old to new) application containerization capabilities, which is a very chrome-biased and hotly contested idea.

Backporting the stuff inside the system to do this would be far too hard for even the best we have serving the community today.

It was useful for me to run a win8.1+ application on my windows 7 laptop. It seems like a very promising project.

Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool (kvrt.exe) fails to run with win7superfix, minorversion, majorversion and buildnumber set in osver.ini. it asks for KB4474419, which is installed. is there anything to be tried?

Interesting, so if my country government takes full power someday and decide to use the police to prosecute and kill me and other antagonists, they will be able to do it in a more streamlined way if they adopt this draconian ID, instead of political enemy lists which are not as manageable as IDs for average policemen.

I've switched to an athlon 64 like cpu and older desktop PC and decided to try vista with the extended kernel. It is simply the best OS i've ever used on a computer with the ext kernel along it. Thanks win32. This makes me able to have a powerful computer and OS with programs to use all day and work without having to pay a lot on repairs on my expensive laptop. The kernel extensions makes sane computing (winvista, the opposite of win10 and 11) affordable

It's quite impossible to do it in my country. Computers are left turned off in stores with no permission to turn them on. Most people buy by the web, but the issue in the keyboard mic and other parts usually appears a year or so after, where warranty simply is not covered by Lenovo without paying. It simply happens because of windows 10 updates breaking drivers. Lenovo admitted the issue but is not really interesting in doing anything. in fact, they have the backing to do so because people simply buy without any research the cheapest computer they can or do not understand they don't need to use the latest windows to make the laptop work. I use one on win7 and no issues whatsoever.

Budget laptops (lenovo s145) are having their keyboards and mics half-bricked because of windows 10 incompatibilities with drivers, with thousands of buyers in poor countries losing their money without warranty or returning their laptops if they are still warranted, with even lenovo admiting the critical failures, while older windows 10 and windows 7 work normally and FASTER than win10 and linux cpu and gpu wise (i suppose vista is like that as well if you load ahci and usb3 drivers)

I like seamonkey more than any firefox old or new fork simply because mozilla suite was better than FF, but youtube music does not work out of the box (it's not remarkably hard to do) and i strongly doubt they will keep compatibility with Win7 in the future.

Guys i'm deeply sorry to talk about this here, but it seems that their recently launched third party AVX2 build is not far from equal to performance in machines which support this extension to newer browsers. I'm using it daily now and it's such faster it made me drop firefox photon forks. I think it raises the necessity of a build which is based on their latest engine (there are things which simply don't work in current forks, at least when we talk about windows forks) and compatible with all windows that support avx and avx2, and linux. It REALLY makes a massive difference in daily usage. It is still the most private browser as of now along with its forks, and arguably one of the most secure. I don't want to give support to any side, but i think its important to emphasize the significance of this to those who run fast machines with windows 7 and vista (the scope of this forum and considering if our dear vista friends in faster machines manage to have avx, avx2, avx-512 and amx on vista in the future). The GCC compiler and advanced vector extensions optimizations REALLY improve javascript performance dramatically.

I've never seen a plausible argument for this other than "compatibility". Which is quite subjective BTW, as there are many programs that work unoficially as normal in older OSes (an example of it is whatsapp on Windows 7) EDIT: People were speaking about old phones and liking them. I'm into smartphones but older. I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo with chinese batteries (the safe ones). It serves me better than current smartphones that look like a brick, it runs android 11, plan to add 12, and it costed nothing.

Hello dear developer. I have a question if you won't bother, as a windows 7 user. Do you think waterfox G4 works reliably in Vista with the extended kernel? Thank you and sorry if the question was stupid.

Steam is literally freezing my machine on start with classic theme enabled. No idea if 16 bit color or any mode. Discord is buggy and slow outside aero. I'm very worried about the future. Will maybe need to dual boot windows 10 only for games and extra stuff.

I've saw (sorry for directly pointing my finger) a post on the windows 8 forum where various people explicitly tried to say windows 7 is slower, something with doesn't makes sense to me, as most of the windows NT kernel and system are definitely growing in size and code and so many extra things like data collection and these things. For a matter of comparision, i will be showing some geekbench 4 tests. The first one shows the Radeon Vega 8 from the ryzen 5 3500u 4000 to 5000 points ahead of vega 10 ryzen 7 3800u laptops, while 2000 to 3000 points behind the dedicated board Geforce 1050TI sh The second one shows the ryzen 5 3500u beating ryzen 7 3800u windows laptops laptops in single and multi core performance. Some linux laptops with ryzen 7 3800u get the single thread win but they still lose, likely because the linux kernel and linux distros today are much bigger and heavier than windows 7. Just to explain: I cannot post all screenshots. I would suggest to search for ryzen 7 3800u results or early-mid 2010s computers (which most here use when we talk about newer windows versions) and make comparisons. my ryzen laptop above

I feel IceApe latest version even faster on Win7 Ultimate amd64 Ryzen 5 3500u 6gb of RAM. Thanks Roytam! I hope there are new possibilities in web compatibility in the future in UXP in general, so certain usecases are fit and i'm able to not use edge in some few moments. But i'm very satisfied with the suite. Again, my thanks and warm compliments for your skills and disciplined efforts for the community.

Is anyone aware on how things may be in future e-core only (ARM Cortex A53-A55 dual-cluster-like) chips? I would be really interested on those in long term future as a ryzen replacement, high power computers do not turn on on my house due to electrical issues,.

I'm seeing dramatic improvements in power usage within more and more uptime. Windows 7 can likely improve things up, as long as GPU drivers are available.