Hi there, was wondering if anyone of you also cannot use Postman on Windows 7 anymore

 

It worked fine (I am not sure what version that was) about a month ago, but one day it decided to auto update (ugh how I hate auto updates without my consent) and now it doesn't even start anymore

 

I know postman is based on Electron and Electron since version 26 (there is an unoficcial for for version28 that works on windows7 here: GitHub - win32ss/supermium-electron: Supermium-based Electron ) doesn’t support windows7

Looking at release notes: Release Notes v11 | Postman

there is no mention anywhere about Postman updating underlying electron to a version that is not supported on windows7

So does anyone know what can I do?

If only I would figure out whats the last version that is supported and where to download it or figure out how to run latest electron on Windows 7

Edited October 27, 20241 yr by veso266

Well I was able to figure it out

For some reason it didn't want to start even on Supremium-Electron v28, but after finding the latest working version and replacing resources with newest version, it worked

1. Install Version 10.24.26 from here: https://dl.pstmn.io/download/version/10.24.26/win64
2. Delete resource folder in: %LocalAppdata%\Postman\app-10.24.26
3. Download latest version (in time of writing thats 11.18.0): https://dl.pstmn.io/download/version/11.18.0/win64
4. Extraxt its resources (open with something like 7zip Postman-11.18.0-full.nupkg and go to lib\net45 and copy resources folder back to %LocalAppdata%\Postman\app-10.24.26

PS: You will need to add 127.0.0.1 dl.pstmn.io to hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) to block Postman from auto updating itself and ruining your hard work

Edited October 28, 20241 yr by veso266