greenhillmaniac Posted April 13, 2017 Author Posted April 13, 2017 Yeah, I heard of the news. Frankly, I'll just keep installing the IE monthly updates, the Malicious Software Removal Tool and the Flash updates, without installing the Security Only updates for now. I'm adopting a @NoelC style approach of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." 1
didadocom Posted April 22, 2017 Posted April 22, 2017 Assembling a Intel Core i7 7700 7th Generation (Kaby Lake) on a Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H motherboard with Windows 7 Professional SP1 x64. After installing about 250 updates a warning comes out that is not compatible and I must switch to an operating system specially designed for the processor... Windows 10 of course! And that will not install "important security updates", total lie, since it does not install anything else, including .NET Framework and Office 2010 updates. Searching for the best approach found: https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/the-whack-a-mole-approach-to-running-windows-7-on-newer-machines/ And zeffy's momentarily solution: https://github.com/zeffy/kb4012218-19 Because I pay and want to use Windows 7 until January 14, 2020 (End of extended support) Not because M$ wants to make more money!
didadocom Posted April 28, 2017 Posted April 28, 2017 (edited) Now also old processors and video GPU are victims to the Microsoft blockade:http://www.infoworld.com/article/3193004/microsoft-windows/windows-7-update-lockout-claims-older-intel-amd-processors.html Edited May 2, 2017 by Tripredacus fixed link
TELVM Posted May 1, 2017 Posted May 1, 2017 On 28/4/2017 at 8:36 PM, didadocom said: ... the Microsoft blockade ... Heh heh, guess that whenever I run Windows 7 on Ryzen that will make me a blockade runner ... ... I like how that sounds.
os2fan2 Posted May 8, 2017 Posted May 8, 2017 I had fun trying to install windows 7 (32 bit) on a skylake cpu. It says it's an "Intel Core i5 Quad 6600K (Skylake) 3.50GHz [R0]". The usb did not work, but i used a ps2 keyboard to install it. Then to get the usb to work, i had to install the driver from the mobo cdrom. But this required a mouse. I browsed the cdrom for a likely suspect and installed that, after that, it worked a treat. I've even got the five gig ramdrive working.
greenhillmaniac Posted May 8, 2017 Author Posted May 8, 2017 18 minutes ago, os2fan2 said: I had fun trying to install windows 7 (32 bit) on a skylake cpu. It says it's an "Intel Core i5 Quad 6600K (Skylake) 3.50GHz [R0]". The usb did not work, but i used a ps2 keyboard to install it. Then to get the usb to work, i had to install the driver from the mobo cdrom. But this required a mouse. I browsed the cdrom for a likely suspect and installed that, after that, it worked a treat. I've even got the five gig ramdrive working. That's a sixth gen Intel CPU. Those aren't affected by the patch blockade.
Tripredacus Posted May 8, 2017 Posted May 8, 2017 3 hours ago, greenhillmaniac said: That's a sixth gen Intel CPU. Those aren't affected by the patch blockade. Not true. All Skylake systems that do not have an OS supplied by one of these 12 OEMs are also under the same situation as the Kaby Lake CPUs. 1
TELVM Posted May 8, 2017 Posted May 8, 2017 KB40914 - Fix for Microsoft Pop up - Unsupported hardware message Also of interest: Quote ... Microsoft stated that they would not be supporting Windows 7 or 8.1 on next-gen Intel, AMD and Qualcomm processors. That is essentially a giant middle finger to anyone who dare not "upgrade" to the steaming pile of garbage known as Windows 10. Especially considering the extended support periods for Windows 7 and 8.1 still have a few years left, and will be ending on January 4, 2020 and January 10, 2023 respectively ... ... Luckily, there are a couple of different ways to kill this CPU check by patching wuaueng.dll ... https://github.com/zeffy/kb4012218-19
cov3rt Posted May 17, 2017 Posted May 17, 2017 i know the thread is mostly on kaby lake but im hoping even cannonlake can work "fine" on windows 7 as that's what i would like to use as my next system possibly. the windows 7 experience scores would be nice to see :).
horatiu Posted June 19, 2017 Posted June 19, 2017 @greenhillmaniac Thanks for this post, helped me install the driver for Intel HD Graphics 620 on my win 7 Lenovo Yoga 910 1
greenhillmaniac Posted June 19, 2017 Author Posted June 19, 2017 On 17/05/2017 at 8:09 PM, cov3rt said: the windows 7 experience scores would be nice to see :). I'm now using Windows 8.1, so the only way to show you the scores would be to run the "winsat /formal" command and paste the resulting XML file. Also, some good news! The fix for Windows Update as mentioned by @TELVM now supports memory patching, which means no OS files are modified and it runs as cleanly as possible. I've tested it on my laptop and it worked! If anybody's interested, here are some drivers for Kaby Lake that I found working for 7/8.1 (used to be 10 exclusive): Intel HD Graphics: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8Y2M7H0nqLUZlNyeUpxWVQzSjQ (these aren't WHQL'd, so you need to disable driver siganture enforcement) Intel Trusted Platform: https://drp.su/en/hwids/ACPI\INT3400?os=windows-8.1-x64# (simply extract the files inside the executable with 7-Zip and you'll have the INF files. You'll need to install the drivers manually through device manager)
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