[Research] Windows 7 and eMMC drives

[George King]

@Ratte Your mentioned drivers cannot be ported with Extender, as I already told you in PM, there are too much missing imports in newer drivers than 8056. I have already tried adding all PoFx.. functions as blank stubs. This wont work. Until you decompile and rewrite these functions. They have a lot of callbacks and probably not possible to rebuild them without some code leak. 

[fuckuing49ehju]

it would be lifechanging for so many laptops that are going to e-waste. I hope you guys succeed.

[XPerceniol]

They are predicting that after windows 10 end support in October 2025 lots of computers will become just that; e-waste.

[D.Draker]

18 hours ago, XPerceniol said:

They are predicting that after windows 10 end support in October 2025 lots of computers will become just that; e-waste.

Which is very good for the Western economy.

[fuckuing49ehju]

Wished there was a way to natively run windows 7, I love using win7, now i use win8 but this constant metro ui switch makes me go nuts.

[mshultz]

16 hours ago, f***uing49ehju said:

Wished there was a way to natively run windows 7, I love using win7, now i use win8 but this constant metro ui switch makes me go nuts.

Just use Open-Shell:

https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/

It works with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and 11.  I use it on my Windows 10 desktop and my Windows 8.1 notebook.  I also use UBitMenu with Microsoft Office 2010:

https://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages

[fuckuing49ehju]

On 3/5/2024 at 2:26 PM, mshultz said:

Just use Open-Shell:

https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/

It works with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and 11.  I use it on my Windows 10 desktop and my Windows 8.1 notebook.  I also use UBitMenu with Microsoft Office 2010:

https://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages

Yeah I know I use it but it doesn't feel the same. I used win 8 to 7 transformation pack but it f**ks up after applying a update. Modern lightweight Linux distros don't even work efficiently in this laptop. I currently use windows 8 pro, its very good in terms of performance but I hate the design. I tried using Windows 7 using WinToUSB but it's IO performance is really bad. There is no SATA interface on my laptop, everything is soldered. I ordered USB SATA adapter and I will try to solder that USB and put small SSD inside.

I also tried windows 8 developer build 8102 (EEAP). I could get it working with eMMC and install graphics driver after disabling DWM but I couldn't get Wi-Fi to work, only ethernet works. I tried many Windows 7 ISOs including OEM, POSReady, Thin Client and so on and nothing works as expected. I followed a guide that shows eMMC installation on a industrial device that has same configuration as mine, I applied the same processes and it didn't work (I applied KB2732471 and Intel IO drivers also tried backported drivers).

I love the form factor of my laptop and obsessed with Frutiger Aero design and hate this current flat design of 8.x / 10 / 11 , I will try my best to get it working. (Unfortunately, I couldn't find any other 11 inch (that has non soldered ssd) good laptops in my country)

Edited March 11 by fuckuing49ehju