Darth Agnon

This is awesome! I've been using Glass8 and OpenShell on my Win10 installation for ages to make it like Windows 7. Looking forward to using explorer7 in the near future!

Docker Toolbox is compatible with older versions of Windows (Win7, Win8), unlike the newer Docker Desktop (Win10 and up, last I checked). On Windows, it basically does run a Linux VM for all Docker stuff. If you're interested in running Docker on legacy systems, you are also probably interested in offline installation of Docker containers. For that, my notes have the following for offline installation:

I just listed the final versions of Vivaldi, Ungoogled Chromium and Brave that are compatible with Windows 7: https://old.reddit.com/r/windows7/comments/113sf82/final_version_of_vivaldi_browser_for_windows_7/ Basically, Chromium v109 is the last with support for Windows 7 and 8.1, v110 and higher are incompatible. To mirror the information here: Ungoogled Chromium final version for Windows 7: Sourced from chromium.woolyss.com amd64 (64-bit) v109.0.5414.75-r1070088 (Google sync, 11 Jan 2023) [Hibbiki • up-to-date • sync • widevine • all-codecs+ • win64 • Portable • Archive • Installer • Package] v109.0.5414.120-r1070088 (Ungoogled, 25 Jan 2023) [Marmaduke • up-to-date • ungoogled • widevine • all-codecs+ • win64 • Portable • Archive • Installer] x86 (32-bit): 109.0.5414.120 (1070088) (Google sync, 25 Jan 2023) [Hibbiki • sync • widevine • all-codecs+ • win32 • Portable • Archive • Installer • Package] Brave browser final version for Windows 7: Boy, their GitHub releases are a @&%!! mess, and their announcement of Win7/8.1 deprecation doesn't even list the final versions for those operating systems, as has been polite practice for many years (see: all those websites that list "Final version for WinXP"). What an incompetent company. Why is Win7 such a pariah? M$ must have paid someone big bucks. [Brave Stable Release v1.47.186 (Chromium 109.0.5414.119)] (the last Stable Release "with Chromium 109" are iOS only: [Brave Stable Release v1.47.189 (Chromium 109.0.5414.119)] or Android only: [Brave Stable Release v1.47.188 (Chromium 109.0.5414.119)] [Brave Dev v1.48.150 (Chromium 109.0.5414.119)] [Brave Beta v1.48.152 (Chromium 109.0.5414.119)] [Brave Nightly v1.49.62 (Chromium 109.0.5414.119)] (the last version with Chromium 109, [Brave Nightly v1.49.63 (Chromium 109.0.5414.119)], does not have Windows builds) Vivaldi browser final version for Win7 Support deprecation announcement Final snapshot supporting Win7: 10 Jan 2023, v5.7.2901.3 (based off Chromium v108) https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/82732/happy-new-year-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-2901-3 https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/happy-new-year-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-2901-3/ Final stable version supporting Win7: Vivaldi v5.6.2867.62 (based off Chromium v108) https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Vivaldi.5.6.2867.62.x64.exe https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/Vivaldi.5.6.2867.62.exe Edgium (Microsoft Edge Chromium) browser final version for Win7 Edgium Offline Installers are available here, but getting the exact final version for Win7 is difficult, as no-one has been keeping an archive. See here for the offline installer for Edgium-based Webview2 You'll also need a registry edit to remove an annoying "unsupported operating system" warning on Edgium and Google Chrome on the final supported versions (not needed for Ungoogled Chromium or Vivaldi) Electron Current version v22 still supports Win7. v23 (pre-release?) bumps Chromium to v110 (see this pull request and v23.1.0 release notes. According to this thread for VSCodium, around May 2023, Electron will stop accepting patches for v22 and will focus only on v23+, so everything built in Electron will slowly stop working on Win7 (just for an idea of timeframe, most Electron stuff still uses v19.x.x, e.g. Nativefier, VSCodium, etc.). As long as it uses Electron v22.x.x or under, it will still work. TODO: node.js Edgium Edge Webview2 Google Chrome Chromedriver/Selenium

From my notes (untested): Any chance you could test and let us know if this workaround works?

I use Coodesker (https://www.coodesker.com/) instead of Stardock Fences. It seems to be less resource intensive, and doesn't embed itself as deeply into the system, but is still quite beta stage software.

Just realised latest versions of Jami also use Qt 6 (latest versions of Jami beta are available here, and the last Qt 5 version is from 2021ish, I believe - see official notice on the download page, as well as a jump in installer size). Might work with the Qt6 compatibility patches.

OBS 28 is now out of beta. It is built using Qt6 and Win7 is no longer supported. Last Qt5 version that should work on Win7 is v27.2.4

Put it in the program's install location, next to AeroGlassGUI.exe and DWMGlass.dll, or use voidtools Everything to search your PC for the filename "donation.key" and replace the trial one with your legit one.t

I've got a working version for Windows 8.1

I was worried, as the NexusMods documentation for Elden Ring on Win7 was a mess, but I'm guessing it must work well enough, as the Win7 patch is now included in the latest repack by a certain girl in the scene.

Discussion about cracks/piracy is ban-worthy here (and most other places). My rule of thumb: don't use/grow to depend on anything with DRM.

Since we're talking games, has anyone tried Elden Ring on Windows 7? Heard it's really good, but it's allegedly DirectX11 masquerading as DX12 and doesn't run natively on the good operating system. Someone made a Win7 compatibility patch, based off DXVK (and DXVK-Async, and vkd3d-proton, and d3d12ProxyEdrDx11_0)

What with Ubisoft pulling their games from Steam and dropping Win7, are they just asking people to sail the seven seas? No other way to play their games (well, there are few on GOG).

Calibre 6 is now out, based off Qt 6. Windows 8 and 32-bit support has been dropped; has anyone tested on Win7?

Combination of api-ms-win-core-path-hack or NulAsh's fork (Python 3.9) and Qt compatibility hacks might work? Kinda like BlenderCompat

It's Qt-based. I posted earlier about compatibility hacks that could be done for Qt software; might be worth looking into.

I just read that CorelDraw 2022 is allegedly Win10 21H1 or higher only (https://kb.corel.com/en/128878) EDIT: CorelDraw 2021 also only works on Win10, Win11 I haven't tested, so cannot confirm. I use the 2020 release (v22) on my PC, which is the last version to support Windows 7 according to Wikipdia, and I completely missed v2021 and installed v2022 on a friend's computer.

Qt6.3 is incompatible below Windows 10 (source). However, there's a bunch of unofficial compatibility patches starting development in this thread on the Qt forums. What is Qt and why should you care? It is a framework for building a lot of open-source applications (incomplete list on Wikipedia), and QtWebView is a key alternative to bloated Electron. If Qt drops support for sub-Win10, then potentially all the software that depends on it will no longer work below Win10.

PCSX2 has released an alpha Qt build and " for now it's only available on Windows 10 and above, no Linux or Mac executables yet". Given the direction of PCSX2, Ryujinx, Dolphin, I doubt legacy support is a priority. Whether it will still work on Win7 or earlier will depend on whether it's Qt 5 (still works) or Qt6 (dropped support for 7) Qt 6.3-based, no Windows 7 support. (unless someone figures out a fix for Qt6). EDIT: There's an unofficial build by one of the devs that uses Qt 6.2, which is compatible with Win8, and should be compatible with Win7 Keep an eye on any notable Qt projects you care about, as it's likely they will soon drop Win7 support by moving to Qt6. Example: MultiMC Minecraft launcher (though it has legacy reasons for staying on old versions of Qt), UltimMC, PolyMC (both based off MultiMC)

Dolphin (Wii/Gamecube emulator) has allegedly dropped support for Windows 7 and 8 (source). Last working version seems to be v5.0-16236. I haven't tested this, so cannot confirm whether it's true, or just one of those quote-unquote "support dropped" but it still works, like PCSX2, or if newer builds can be "fixed" with one of those compatibility layer DLLs.

What version of Chrome are you using? It's been ages since I've seen trapezoid tabs like that. Curious if you've somehow got them on a recent version of Chrome... (I've got some older versions, 50-something and 70-something that have those tabs, but even the more recent one throws up compatibility warnings from a lot of websites, including GitHub)

Cryptomator v1.5.17 (https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator/releases/tag/1.5.17) is the final version to work on Windows 7/8/8.1/older 10. Cryptomator v1.6.x requires Win10 v1803 minimum; it's FOSS Java software, so modification might be possible. Or use Veracrypt which still works on Win7 (after a bit of a kerfluffle an update or two ago).