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Windows 7 x64 Extended Support Page

101 points by spacedrone808 1y ago

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postexitus 1y ago
That red mouse pointer on the web page - it's from Amiga Workbench!
- spacedrone808 1y ago
  That's correct.
Springtime 1y ago
I'm kind of surprised that Chromium blocks audio on autoplaying videos except when clicked but allows audio on mouseover interactions (encountered here). Takes me back to early 00s era sites with random surprises (in a good way here since its quirkiness is communicated with the design).
- spacedrone808 1y ago
  there are two audio Easter eggs on the page: Fallout 2 narration if you hover on the header image of the man watching tv from "Brazil" movie and if you hover "Unlisted Retrograde Holdout" text you will hear voice from "Human Traffic"
  - amiga386 1y ago
    Strumming the main menu makes pip-boy sounds too. On Firefox, you have to click on the page at least once before mouseover plays audio
    - spacedrone808 1y ago
      You got me, page also have a sound from UFO X-COM
      - amiga386 1y ago
        So it is. I thought it wwas something else, but it's X-COM / UFO as you said. On https://sounds.spriters-resource.com/ms_dos/xcomufodefensexcomenemyunknownufoenemyunknown/asset/418608/ https://sounds.spriters-resource.com/ms_dos/xcomufodefensexc... it's ui_message.wav
        spacedrone808 1y ago
        Neat site, i've ripped sound by myself.
laweijfmvo 1y ago
i’m sorry, there may be useful information here, but this web page is unusable in its current form
- guizadillas 1y ago
  for real, at least on FLOORP (firefox fork) it is a buggy mess
p1mrx 1y ago
Note, you can click "plain txt file" near the top to read without flickering: https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/doc/win7eol.txt https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/doc/win7eol.txt
- alt227 1y ago
  I love the aesthetic of the site, but the flickering titles are just horrible IMO.
  - spacedrone808 1y ago
    Flicker removed
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago
  I'm still looking for the ISO download link so I can try it on my spare laptop but I am unsuccessful. The website is really confusing.
  - spacedrone808 1y ago
    https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/menu/_windows/ https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/menu/_windows/
    - FirmwareBurner 1y ago
      thank you
shortrounddev2 1y ago
Beautiful website
- spacedrone808 1y ago
  design matches 90s era
  - bitwize 1y ago
    The design is so much cooler than actual 90s websites were. More like the professional titling for a 90s cyberpunk flick like Hackers which was out 30 years ago next month.
    - spacedrone808 1y ago
      I'm doing web projects during my free time. The website is based around Hugo framework, but since Windows 7 support was dropped i continue to maintain it with custom js/scss And yeah, love this movie, despite it is a bit childish these days.
SilverElfin 1y ago
I miss the magical feeling windows releases like XP and 7 gave you. Now it’s an exercise in crossing your fingers and hoping the next update doesn’t use more dark patterns to destroy your privacy and security.
- freeAgent 1y ago
  You don’t even really have a legitimate reason to hope for those things at this point. It’s just a matter of how much worse MS are going to make it.
  - varispeed 1y ago
    The problem is virtually defunct regulators inviting all kind of toxic and exploitative behaviour from big corporations. Sure they _do something_, but it is ineffective and more like windows dressing.
- whalesalad 1y ago
  In 2025, I can only think of two reasons to use Windows as a primary operating system: 1. You develop Windows software, exclusively to be deployed on Windows. 2. You play games that use kernel-level anti-cheat that are incompatible with Linux. I am really really happy with Debian+KDE combo.
  - kstrauser 1y ago
    3. Your employer’s IT team refuses to let you use something else.
    - ronsor 1y ago
      At work or at home? At work, I'd argue the employer is mostly using it. Windows's problems are their problems then.
      - hulitu 1y ago
maleldil 1y ago
Horribly designed page. Why does everything need to blink? Why is the text so poorly rendered? You can accomplish a retro design while retaining some semblance of readability.
- hnlmorg 1y ago
  It’s clearly a personal pet project where they’ve heavily leaned, hard, into some creative ways to present traditional documents. We all complain about dull corporate themes and walled gardens making the web stale. But you can’t have a creative fun web without having the odd site that breaks some readability conventions. Personally, I’d rather see more personal sites like this and fewer stuff on Medium or using boring React/Vue/whatever themes. But each to their own.
  - spacedrone808 1y ago
    I prefer plain js/scss and sometimes pug backed into webpack.
  - ssl-3 1y ago
    I'm here hanging out on HNN. I've never complained about dull, "stale" Web design.
- spacedrone808 1y ago
  Everyone has it's own opinion. And if i tell you that it is just one of four different projects i have? And yeah, do you have any projects to showcase to us?
- spacedrone808 1y ago
  Flicker removed from Win 7 support page.
throwanem 1y ago
You won't be able to use more than compatibility modes if any with hardware newer than about 2015, because the drivers were built to a newer kernel ABI. It's great for legacy gaming, I still maintain an install for that purpose, but the idea of using Windows 7 in 2025 for a legitimately compute-bound workload is rather silly. Good heavens, even your disk IO is likely to run at half or less the speed it could! The aesthetic here slaps, though. The sort of overcooked reheated Geocities fantasy of what I assume an Eastern European teenager would imagine American kids having access to - well, there are two Georgias in the world and I grew up two states over from the other one, and in some ways I think I get it. After all, the rich folks back home lived in their own little world, too. Cobbling together what we could, dreaming of bigger and better...who'd we have believed, telling us then how fondly we would come to look back on those days now?
- spacedrone808 1y ago
  I am on Ryzen 7950X/64Gb[swap in RAM]/1Tb 980 PRO NVME/24Gb3090Ti. Blazing fast. And yeah NVME operations are actually faster than on windows 10.
  - throwanem 1y ago
    Blazing fast where? I may have overlooked some GPU and memory benchmarks.
    - spacedrone808 1y ago
      For example Blender rendering is faster than in windows 10, but slower comparing to Linux.
      - throwanem 1y ago
        I'm surprised, but maybe I shouldn't be. And maybe if I put more work into picking a motherboard for a new Windows 7 build, I could even have working USB-C ports! It can't be as hard as a Hackintosh, probably... Still, it's hard to see Windows excelling at anything but gaming, and if it's possible to get DX12 support on Win 7, I've never been able to find a working explanation of how. Compute loads I already have targets for.
the4anoni 1y ago
5950x, 1050 Ti I am still using Windows 7! (Alongside with latest Linux Mint for actual important stuff). Unfortunately now the quality of software is only going downhill.
- spacedrone808 1y ago
  Nice config. Yeah, software going downhill and not only on windows.
SoKamil 1y ago
It was easier for me to read this .txt version of page. https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/doc/win7eol.txt https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/doc/win7eol.txt
throw7 1y ago
The site disables the scrollbar. I have both "Always show scrollbar" enabled and widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled set to false... disappointing that firefox has poor controls for the user.
- spacedrone808 1y ago
  Website is tested only in Firefox 115 ESR, RedFox 140 and Supermium 132. Sorry that you stumbled upon such issue, mouse scrolling should work, at least. You are also could try smartphone for mobile layout.
  - nosioptar 1y ago
    Scrollbar is on the wrong side. On Firefox, I use layout.scrollbar.side to set it to the left. Not sure if there's even a way to make it match the browser prefs. That said, the scrollbar does look pretty cool.
netsharc 1y ago
I stayed with Windows 7 a looong time, until there was a (IIRC) JPEG2000 bug which was exploitable via the browser, and the "modern" browsers for Windows 7 were all unpatched. But I guess if I studied this page I can figure out if that bug is still dangerous.
nipperkinfeet 1y ago
I'm still using Windows 7 with server patches. There are no bugs, nagware, or unnecessary Microsoft features.
- spacedrone808 1y ago
  Nice one mate

101 points by spacedrone808 1y ago

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postexitus 1y ago

That red mouse pointer on the web page - it's from Amiga Workbench!

spacedrone808 1y ago
That's correct.

Springtime 1y ago

I'm kind of surprised that Chromium blocks audio on autoplaying videos except when clicked but allows audio on mouseover interactions (encountered here). Takes me back to early 00s era sites with random surprises (in a good way here since its quirkiness is communicated with the design).

spacedrone808 1y ago
there are two audio Easter eggs on the page: Fallout 2 narration if you hover on the header image of the man watching tv from "Brazil" movie and if you hover "Unlisted Retrograde Holdout" text you will hear voice from "Human Traffic"
- amiga386 1y ago
  Strumming the main menu makes pip-boy sounds too. On Firefox, you have to click on the page at least once before mouseover plays audio
  - spacedrone808 1y ago
    You got me, page also have a sound from UFO X-COM
    - amiga386 1y ago
      So it is. I thought it wwas something else, but it's X-COM / UFO as you said. On https://sounds.spriters-resource.com/ms_dos/xcomufodefensexcomenemyunknownufoenemyunknown/asset/418608/ https://sounds.spriters-resource.com/ms_dos/xcomufodefensexc... it's ui_message.wav
      - spacedrone808 1y ago
        Neat site, i've ripped sound by myself.

laweijfmvo 1y ago

i’m sorry, there may be useful information here, but this web page is unusable in its current form

guizadillas 1y ago
for real, at least on FLOORP (firefox fork) it is a buggy mess

p1mrx 1y ago

Note, you can click "plain txt file" near the top to read without flickering: https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/doc/win7eol.txt https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/doc/win7eol.txt

alt227 1y ago
I love the aesthetic of the site, but the flickering titles are just horrible IMO.
- spacedrone808 1y ago
  Flicker removed
FirmwareBurner 1y ago
I'm still looking for the ISO download link so I can try it on my spare laptop but I am unsuccessful. The website is really confusing.
- spacedrone808 1y ago
  https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/menu/_windows/ https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/menu/_windows/
  - FirmwareBurner 1y ago
    thank you

shortrounddev2 1y ago

Beautiful website

spacedrone808 1y ago
design matches 90s era
- bitwize 1y ago
  The design is so much cooler than actual 90s websites were. More like the professional titling for a 90s cyberpunk flick like Hackers which was out 30 years ago next month.
  - spacedrone808 1y ago
    I'm doing web projects during my free time. The website is based around Hugo framework, but since Windows 7 support was dropped i continue to maintain it with custom js/scss And yeah, love this movie, despite it is a bit childish these days.

SilverElfin 1y ago

I miss the magical feeling windows releases like XP and 7 gave you. Now it’s an exercise in crossing your fingers and hoping the next update doesn’t use more dark patterns to destroy your privacy and security.

freeAgent 1y ago
You don’t even really have a legitimate reason to hope for those things at this point. It’s just a matter of how much worse MS are going to make it.
- varispeed 1y ago
  The problem is virtually defunct regulators inviting all kind of toxic and exploitative behaviour from big corporations. Sure they _do something_, but it is ineffective and more like windows dressing.
whalesalad 1y ago
In 2025, I can only think of two reasons to use Windows as a primary operating system: 1. You develop Windows software, exclusively to be deployed on Windows. 2. You play games that use kernel-level anti-cheat that are incompatible with Linux. I am really really happy with Debian+KDE combo.
- kstrauser 1y ago
  3. Your employer’s IT team refuses to let you use something else.
  - ronsor 1y ago
    At work or at home? At work, I'd argue the employer is mostly using it. Windows's problems are their problems then.
    - hulitu 1y ago

maleldil 1y ago

Horribly designed page. Why does everything need to blink? Why is the text so poorly rendered? You can accomplish a retro design while retaining some semblance of readability.

hnlmorg 1y ago
It’s clearly a personal pet project where they’ve heavily leaned, hard, into some creative ways to present traditional documents. We all complain about dull corporate themes and walled gardens making the web stale. But you can’t have a creative fun web without having the odd site that breaks some readability conventions. Personally, I’d rather see more personal sites like this and fewer stuff on Medium or using boring React/Vue/whatever themes. But each to their own.
- spacedrone808 1y ago
  I prefer plain js/scss and sometimes pug backed into webpack.
- ssl-3 1y ago
  I'm here hanging out on HNN. I've never complained about dull, "stale" Web design.
spacedrone808 1y ago
Everyone has it's own opinion. And if i tell you that it is just one of four different projects i have? And yeah, do you have any projects to showcase to us?
spacedrone808 1y ago
Flicker removed from Win 7 support page.

throwanem 1y ago

You won't be able to use more than compatibility modes if any with hardware newer than about 2015, because the drivers were built to a newer kernel ABI. It's great for legacy gaming, I still maintain an install for that purpose, but the idea of using Windows 7 in 2025 for a legitimately compute-bound workload is rather silly. Good heavens, even your disk IO is likely to run at half or less the speed it could! The aesthetic here slaps, though. The sort of overcooked reheated Geocities fantasy of what I assume an Eastern European teenager would imagine American kids having access to - well, there are two Georgias in the world and I grew up two states over from the other one, and in some ways I think I get it. After all, the rich folks back home lived in their own little world, too. Cobbling together what we could, dreaming of bigger and better...who'd we have believed, telling us then how fondly we would come to look back on those days now?

spacedrone808 1y ago
I am on Ryzen 7950X/64Gb[swap in RAM]/1Tb 980 PRO NVME/24Gb3090Ti. Blazing fast. And yeah NVME operations are actually faster than on windows 10.
- throwanem 1y ago
  Blazing fast where? I may have overlooked some GPU and memory benchmarks.
  - spacedrone808 1y ago
    For example Blender rendering is faster than in windows 10, but slower comparing to Linux.
    - throwanem 1y ago
      I'm surprised, but maybe I shouldn't be. And maybe if I put more work into picking a motherboard for a new Windows 7 build, I could even have working USB-C ports! It can't be as hard as a Hackintosh, probably... Still, it's hard to see Windows excelling at anything but gaming, and if it's possible to get DX12 support on Win 7, I've never been able to find a working explanation of how. Compute loads I already have targets for.

the4anoni 1y ago

5950x, 1050 Ti I am still using Windows 7! (Alongside with latest Linux Mint for actual important stuff). Unfortunately now the quality of software is only going downhill.

spacedrone808 1y ago
Nice config. Yeah, software going downhill and not only on windows.

SoKamil 1y ago

It was easier for me to read this .txt version of page. https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/doc/win7eol.txt https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/doc/win7eol.txt

throw7 1y ago

The site disables the scrollbar. I have both "Always show scrollbar" enabled and widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled set to false... disappointing that firefox has poor controls for the user.

spacedrone808 1y ago
Website is tested only in Firefox 115 ESR, RedFox 140 and Supermium 132. Sorry that you stumbled upon such issue, mouse scrolling should work, at least. You are also could try smartphone for mobile layout.
- nosioptar 1y ago
  Scrollbar is on the wrong side. On Firefox, I use layout.scrollbar.side to set it to the left. Not sure if there's even a way to make it match the browser prefs. That said, the scrollbar does look pretty cool.

netsharc 1y ago

I stayed with Windows 7 a looong time, until there was a (IIRC) JPEG2000 bug which was exploitable via the browser, and the "modern" browsers for Windows 7 were all unpatched. But I guess if I studied this page I can figure out if that bug is still dangerous.

nipperkinfeet 1y ago

I'm still using Windows 7 with server patches. There are no bugs, nagware, or unnecessary Microsoft features.

spacedrone808 1y ago
Nice one mate