Windows 7 and Kaby Lake

[ZeroMo]

Hey 
I am building a system for my Parents and they still have windows 7 on their old PC. And they dont want to change to windows 10. 
My problem is the dickmove Microsoft did with stopping support for Win 7 on Kaby lake CPUs. Are the only two solutions to either stick with older hardware like Haswell to be sure windows 7 works at least until 2020 when they kill it ultimatly or convincing my parents to switch to win 10? The Problem is i live like 300-400 kilometers away from my parents and cant just come over to troubleshoot some issue (sadly) so i need a system which has little issues to begin with.

 

Thanks for any advice or suggestions.

 

Zer0Mo

[Uptivuptiz]

So the problem is that you need a new pc for your parents that MUST run Windows 7?

[3rrant]

20 minutes ago, ZeroMo said:

Hey 
I am building a system for my Parents and they still have windows 7 on their old PC. And they dont want to change to windows 10. 
My problem is the dickmove Microsoft did with stopping support for Win 7 on Kaby lake CPUs. Are the only two solutions to either stick with older hardware like Haswell to be sure windows 7 works at least until 2020 when they kill it ultimatly or convincing my parents to switch to win 10? The Problem is i live like 300-400 kilometers away from my parents and cant just come over to troubleshoot some issue (sadly) so i need a system which has little issues to begin with.

 

Thanks for any advice or suggestions.

 

Zer0Mo

You can troubleshoot most of the problems with Team Viewer like softwares since they will be OS related and not hardware.

 

Anyway, it will work on Kaby Lake. You might have the same issues as a new hardware but the OS it's much likely gonna work smooth.

[Kiani]

2 simple solutions:

 

1. Ask them to use Windows 10 on trial bases.

2. Skylake is fast enough,

[ZeroMo]

Ok Thanks Guys

ill go with skylake and let them try windows 10...then they can decide on their own whats more to their liking.
 

and thanks for the tipp with teamviewer. Should make shit easier in the future  

 

much thanks guys.

[ozzynotwood]

Teamviewer: Set up unattended access, just do it, I didn't and ended up having to drive 90 minutes to tick a checkbox.

[MSWindowsinside]

2 hours ago, ozzynotwood said:

Teamviewer: Set up unattended access, just do it, I didn't and ended up having to drive 90 minutes to tick a checkbox.

A tip for if you didn't know yet: Windows 10 includes an app called "quick assist" which doesn't need to be set up or anything. While in quick assist you could also remotely install Teamviewer if needed. 

[ozzynotwood]

1 hour ago, MSWindowsinside said:

A tip for if you didn't know yet: Windows 10 includes an app called "quick assist" which doesn't need to be set up or anything. While in quick assist you could also remotely install Teamviewer if needed. 

Anything that stops me having to drive long distances to resize a window for the elderly is a good tip, thanks!