Windows 7 x64 Extended Support Page

https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/post/windows-7-power-256-threads-192-gb-ram

by spacedrone808 • 11 months ago

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trackerninja.codeberg.page

postexitus• 11 months ago

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

spacedrone80820• 11 months ago

That's correct.

Springtime• 11 months 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).

spacedrone80820• 11 months 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"

amiga3862• 11 months 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

laweijfmvo• 11 months ago

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

guizadillas• 11 months ago

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

p1mrx• 11 months ago

Note, you can click "plain txt file" near the top to read without flickering:

https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/doc/win7eol.txt

alt227• 11 months ago

I love the aesthetic of the site, but the flickering titles are just horrible IMO.

spacedrone80820• 11 months ago

Flicker removed

FirmwareBurner2• 11 months 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.

spacedrone80820• 11 months ago

https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/menu/_windows/

shortrounddev2• 11 months ago

Beautiful website

spacedrone80820• 11 months ago

design matches 90s era

bitwize• 11 months 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.

SilverElfin2• 11 months 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• 11 months 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• 11 months 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• 11 months 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• 11 months ago

3. Your employer’s IT team refuses to let you use something else.

spacedrone80820• 11 months ago

I am having Windows 7 not only at home, but at work also and successfully doing web apps and sites.

matsemann• 11 months ago

3. You just prefer how it works after being used to it for decades.

Had a Mac through work for a couple of years, so it's not for lack of trying. Also had Ubuntu as main boot for a while.

They are kinda destroying much of what I like, though. As if the Windows designers at MS are all using Macs as their daily driver and want to make it the same. I had to hold off upgrading to Win11 for a while due to the stupid new task bar couldn't ungroup windows. Why continuously hurt power users?

SilverElfin2• 11 months ago

To be honest, I’ve tried to find tutorials for using Linux daily and have come up short. It seems too intimidating or maybe like it will require a lot of fiddling unless you’re a software engineer.

estimator72922• 11 months ago

I ran into a problem at my new job where TI's typically garbage software doesn't work on Linux, not even inside a windows VM with the USB device passed through.

Though it's hard to tell if it doesn't work because of the VM or if it's just simply broken garbage.

hnlmorg5• 11 months ago

Honestly, I can’t say I ever had that magical feeling.

In the 90s, it was more a case of “let’s see how much more system resource this new OS will consume when idle”. And the 00s was that and “let’s see how much more stupid this OS treats me”.

By the time 7 came and MS started taking resource consumption seriously, I’d already given up on Windows completely and had been using desktop Linux full time for several years.

I do have a Windows 10 floating about for gaming. But it’s really more of a chore to use than a joy. Albeit only because I seldom boot into Windows so I have to plan ahead to compensate for the two hours of system and application updates needed before Minecraft (Bedrock edition) will even start. A chore that’s hard to explain to my kids who, understandably, expect things to “just work”.

uz3snolc3t6fnrq2• 11 months ago

any particular reason you're on bedrock instead of java? don't you get both versions when you buy the game? i bought mine when java was the only version and i think they gave me bedrock for free when that came out. or is it because of the lack of crossplay? just curious

alphager• 11 months ago

You don't remember the controversies with XP and XPAntiSpy?

estimator72922• 11 months ago

I remember staying up late on a school night to grab a beta iso for windows 7 because they were (supposed to) limit how many people could download it. That was the last time I ever got excited about a Microsoft product

maleldil• 11 months 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.

hnlmorg5• 11 months 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.

spacedrone80820• 11 months ago

I prefer plain js/scss and sometimes pug backed into webpack.

ssl-3• 11 months ago

I'm here hanging out on HNN. I've never complained about dull, "stale" Web design.

spacedrone80820• 11 months 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?

spacedrone80820• 11 months ago

Flicker removed from Win 7 support page.

throwanem3• 11 months 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?

spacedrone80820• 11 months 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.

throwanem3• 11 months ago

Blazing fast where? I may have overlooked some GPU and memory benchmarks.

the4anoni• 11 months 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.

spacedrone80820• 11 months ago

Nice config. Yeah, software going downhill and not only on windows.

SoKamil• 11 months ago

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

throw7• 11 months 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.

spacedrone80820• 11 months 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• 11 months 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• 11 months 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• 11 months ago

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

spacedrone80820• 11 months ago

Nice one mate

Windows 7 x64 Extended Support Page

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