R. I. P., Windows 7

[Chiyawa]

As today is the very last day before Windows 7 supports ended, I would like to take this opportunity to wallow in my room and cry over.

 

Anyway, what impact does Windows 7 have in your life? For me, probably good riddance of Windows Vista. But while everyone goes for Windows 7, I took the less path travel, which is to go for Linux (Ubuntu to be exact). I didn't use Windows 7 much in my life.

 

Well, let's get all the good vibes and fill this thread with all the best memories that Windows 7 had brought to us. Let it be a sweet end for a remarkable Operating System.

[Constantin]

2 minutes ago, Chiyawa said:

As today is the very last day before Windows 7 supports ended, I would like to take this opportunity to wallow in my room and cry over.

 

Anyway, what impact does Windows 7 have in your life? For me, probably good riddance of Windows Vista. But while everyone goes for Windows 7, I took the less path travel, which is to go for Linux (Ubuntu to be exact). I didn't use Windows 7 much in my life.

 

Well, let's get all the good vibes and fill this thread with all the best memories that Windows 7 had brought to us. Let it be a sweet end for a remarkable Operating System.

When i first install Windows 7, i was amazed and instantly fall in love.

 

[homeap5]

When I first time saw win7, I thought: rebranded Vista.

[nox_]

Just now, homeap5 said:

When I first time saw win7, I thought: rebranded Vista.

And you were right on the money!

[Constantin]

25 minutes ago, homeap5 said:

When I first time saw win7, I thought: rebranded Vista.

Vista is to spit on the floor

[Sir Asvald]

Press F. Windows 7 was the best OS second to XP.

 

 

[r2724r16]

F

[Sir0Tek]

I never even owned any Windows in service on my personal systems, I was 'just' the serviceman who managed to keep the pcs up and running from friends and family-members first, then their friends and colleagues showed up as well, and so on and so on.

A dead Windows 7 is like the dead WfW3.1x, Win98, XP and the born-dead Vista a good chance for anyone to get out of the vicious circle but I have my doubts that it will happen in significant numbers.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I felt Win 7 was much better and XP (and I loved XP). However, when Gates retired and that maniac Ballmer took over, MS started going downhill. Wnen Ballmer got replaced (which desperately needed to happen) with Nadella (not with him, though), Ms really began to plummet. Much of the nonsense Nadella barfed up for Win 10 started spilling over into Win 7, such as spyware, nagware, and frequent broken updates because MS started using users as unwitting beta testers. Because of that, I lost much of my love for Win 7 and no longer can trust MS at all (I even stopped downloading and installing updates two years ago because of all the grief they gave me) so I no longer care that Win 7 has reached EOL. Any future with MS is just too grim for me.

 

Instead, I'm divorcing MS and switching over to Linux Mint (currently 19.3). I'm already functional on it even though I still have a lot to learn, and haven't connected my Win 7 machine to the internet in around two weeks. I fire it up only to collect data to move over to the Linux machine, a tedious, time consuming process since I'm weeding out data that applies only to Windows.

 

I have similarly completely abandoned Adobe because of their similar decline. The final straw was when they adopted a cloud based, subscription based business model. MS is slowly heading that direction except they have also added advertising to their business model.

[WkdPaul]

3 minutes ago, Sushimus said:

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[SpikeSpiegel]

I totally skip Windows Vista in order to wait to get my gaming desktop.  So I started with Windows 3.1 back in 1990.  Forward that to Windows 95 then around 1997 we got Windows 98 SE.  Then during the 2000's we got good deals from DELL with their DELL Dimension 3000's with Windows XP 32 bit.  Sadly it came with only 256 MB of RAM.  I didn't upgrade the PC until the late 2006.  Where I max out the RAM to 2 GB's and spent my money on those outdated PCI Video Cards just to play a few games.  I started with a PNY Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 Video Card.  Which only had 256 mb of RAM.  Then upgrade to two more GPU's PCI cards.  With BFG Tech 6200 OC and finally a BFG Tech 8400 GS.  By that time my DELL Dimension 3000 kept BSODing.  Due to bad caps.  So I had to wait until 2010.  To get Windows 7 because I wasn't sure if I was going to try to build a gaming PC during the Windows Vista era.  With the entire negative reviews about Windows Vista.  I decided on Windows 7.  I bought fairly good deal with a iBuyPowerPC Gamer Power WA500D3 system.  That came with...

Quick Info

Type

Gaming & Entertainment

Form Factor

Gamma Gaming Tower

Processor

AMD Athlon II x2 250 3.0GHz

Processor Main Features

64 bit Dual Core Processor

Cache Per Processor

2 x 1 MB L2 Cache

Memory

4GB DDR3 1333

Storage

500GB SATA II

Optical Drive

DVD+/-RW Drive

Graphics

Dedicated ATI Radeon HD 5450 Graphics (512MB)

Audio

Sound card - Integrated

Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet

Power Supply

480W

Keyboard

Wireless Keyboard

Mouse

Wireless Mouse

Operating System

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

 

 

I had issues with the PC after around 2012.  Where the original RAM failed and totally failed to post with both sticks of RAM.  I had to RMA the motherboard the https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/GA-M68MT-S2-rev-13#ov 

Because the RAM did something to the motherboard and it refused to post.  Then I got the board back from Gigabyte.  And the old RAM posted and out of no-where after a Windows 7 update.  The motherboard's RAM Socket.  Sparked and it went completely dead again.  So I had to RMA it with 2 days of using it after being RMAed.  During that time without a PC.  I decided to buy new RAM, CPU, and a new GPU.  Because current hardware was getting old and I wasn't sure if I was going to upgrade to Windows 10 when it first came out.  So I got AMD Phenom II x4 945 3.0GHz CPU and Corsair XMS x2 4 GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM and a Radeon 6570 GDDR3 2 GB PCIe x16.   And the motherboard came back and the installed the new hardware.  Then my PC was upgraded again when my Radeon 6570 was RMAed and I got an RMA upgrade to a R7 240 GDDR5 1 GB GPU.  The PC lasted until spring of 2018. 

 

By that time Ryzen was ready out and I wasn't going to rebuild the PC with the same hardware knowing how Windows 7 was going to ending it's support in 2020.  So I upgraded to a Ryzen 5 1600 based system.  And I finally got Windows 10 pro.

 

Now I miss Windows 7.  However I still have one laptop that is a Windows 7 PC.  I won't change it to Linux or Windows 10.  Due to the hardware limitations of being a slow laptop with a single core CPU and DDR2 PC6400 800MHz.  And the price of DDR2 800MHz RAM in China has skyrocketed on Ebay.  So it's going to be an AFK machine for an MMORPG.  Which doesn't require much RAM and CPU.  And Avast officially said they will support Windows 7 for 2 more years.

 

It's sad that Windows 7 had to leave us.  However we can always remember the good times of Windows 7.

 

Windows 7 (Pro's and Con's)

 

Pro's

1.  Gadgets (Love them even if they were a security risk)

2.  UI (Very easy to use and simplified)

3.  Aero (I always love the Aero)

4. Supported my old retro games (Lords of The Realm 2, F.E.A.R, and Age of Empires)

Con's

 

1.   So many security updates

2.  OS was aging too fast when Windows 8/8.1/10 came out  

[Alan G]

I still run my cable TV on Win7 Windows Media Center which is one of the better pieces of software MSFT created.  I'm staying with this gong forward as Win10 does not support the app.