[Installing Windows 7 on a 10th Gen Comet Lake Laptop]

6 hours ago, Artisary said:

Hi everyone!

So recently I was tired of Wintrash 10 on my system, and wanted to use Windows 7. However I didn't know that Windows 7 would even work on this laptop, and sure enough it didn't. Here are some steps I tried:
(Credit to some fine folks at the r/Windows7 reddit for helping me till here)

1. Used a complete up-to-date ISO with NVMe, USB Drivers built in
2. Used UEFISeven to try to get Windows 7 booting (failed, have attached a few videos showing what happened)

I'm not sure what is stopping me from getting Windows 7 running on my laptop, I've seen multiple people getting it running on Comet/Rocket lake or even Alder lake systems!

As for the drivers:
I don't care about most of them. I have a dGPU so it that works I'll be just as fine, I don't expect the built-in UHD 630 GPU to work. As for WiFI, it'd be nice to have it but I doubt that the new AX201 chips would even work in Windows 7, the last OS they work is 2015 LTSB, and I did try Win 8.1 but it didn't work.

If anyone could help me get Windows 7 on my laptop, I'd really appreciate it, thanks!

My specs:
Intel Core i7-10870H
GeForce GTX 1650 Ti (Notebook/Mobile GPU)
16 GB DDR4-2933 MHz memory
256 GB NVMe + 1 TB HDD
Intel WiFi 6 AX201 (Again, don't expect any modded drivers)

Some images showing my problem after using UEFISeven:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Au5nqkprJeoQ0BGQ2WpfeBoHz-nK
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Au5nqkprJeoQ0BJjMA_eGDVsF198
After this happens, and I try to boot, it reboots after it stucks on "Starting Windows" and goes into the UEFI or sometimes goes to "Windows is loading files" even though I don't have the install medium installed.

Thanks in Advance!

I see someone doing it on a pc not a laptop...

[Installing Windows 7 on a 10th Gen Comet Lake Laptop]

2 hours ago, Artisary said:

Hi everyone!

So recently I was tired of Wintrash 10 on my system, and wanted to use Windows 7. However I didn't know that Windows 7 would even work on this laptop, and sure enough it didn't. Here are some steps I tried:
(Credit to some fine folks at the r/Windows7 reddit for helping me till here)

1. Used a complete up-to-date ISO with NVMe, USB Drivers built in
2. Used UEFISeven to try to get Windows 7 booting (failed, have attached a few videos showing what happened)

I'm not sure what is stopping me from getting Windows 7 running on my laptop, I've seen multiple people getting it running on Comet/Rocket lake or even Alder lake systems!

As for the drivers:
I don't care about most of them. I have a dGPU so it that works I'll be just as fine, I don't expect the built-in UHD 630 GPU to work. As for WiFI, it'd be nice to have it but I doubt that the new AX201 chips would even work in Windows 7, the last OS they work is 2015 LTSB, and I did try Win 8.1 but it didn't work.

If anyone could help me get Windows 7 on my laptop, I'd really appreciate it, thanks!

My specs:
Intel Core i7-10870H
GeForce GTX 1650 Ti (Notebook/Mobile GPU)
16 GB DDR4-2933 MHz memory
256 GB NVMe + 1 TB HDD
Intel WiFi 6 AX201 (Again, don't expect any modded drivers)

Some images showing my problem after using UEFISeven:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Au5nqkprJeoQ0BGQ2WpfeBoHz-nK
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Au5nqkprJeoQ0BJjMA_eGDVsF198
After this happens, and I try to boot, it reboots after it stucks on "Starting Windows" and goes into the UEFI or sometimes goes to "Windows is loading files" even though I don't have the install medium installed.

Thanks in Advance!

Y'know there is Windows 10 that is not trash..

[Windows 8 Extended Kernel]

3 hours ago, mina7601 said:

In my opinion, I think Windows 7 and 8 need an extended kernel. I don't think Windows 8.1 needs one, which like you said, can have the latest versions of some software with workarounds/modifications.

Windows 8.1 kinda need them...

it's just less than a year the EOL would come...

and Windows 8.1  it's not a major success and app dev could discontinued app right away..

[Windows 8 Extended Kernel]

Hey Im a new user on MSFN forum...

After seeing effort for older windows...

I want a Windows 8 Extended Kernel..

I'm not a coder but seeing you guys made Vista Extended Kernel...

It's not a demand but really cool to see it happened...