The recent [significant surge phenomenon] in Windows 7’s popularity seems to be directly linked to following key factors: the termination of mainstream support for Windows 10 [which has driven users away from upgrading further] the widespread dissatisfaction many users have expressed regarding Windows 11 [a substantial number of users are clearly opting against Windows 11 due to its intrusive telemetry services and vague interface innovations] As a result, these users have flocked back to Windows 7, viewing on it as a stable, time-tested alternative free from constant irksome updates and excessive data collection practices.

I am not a frequent user of windows explorer, since i am using [Far Manger] as a complete replacement with way broader functionality. But recently i’ve stumbled upon very unusual feature of file explorer and i bet that most of you don’t even know about such thing. Do you know that you have an option to launch executables with assigned parameters, pretending that you are already in the command line?

UPDATED ON: 2025-09-15 So, why official end of life or the recent [extension of the lifecycle] until February/March 2026 of [ESR build] does not really change anything to Windows 7 addicts? The answer is pretty simple > because we have loads of options to choose from. Firefox-based flavour > [ 1 ] ||| [ 2 ] ||| [ 3 ] Tor Firefox-based flavour > [ 1 ] ||| [ 2 ] Chrome-based flavour > [ 1 ] ||| [ 2 ] ||| [ 3 ] See?

UPDATED ON: 2025-09-12 You know that it is already became some kind of sport for me or maybe a “bad practice” obsession. But i just can’t stop doin’ it, anyway, let’s get on with another dirty-hack. The most recent version i found was v22.250 [2024] and i was able to breath life into Vegas 22 no matter what. This guide will be a little less intensive comparing to [LibreOffice investigations] .

UPDATED ON: 2025-09-05 Frankly speaking, initially I considered droping a blip note that looks like this one: [LibreOffice 25.8 Is No Longer Welcoming Windows 7 Users] but then I thought, “What the heck? Why don’t i opt to create something genuinely beneficial for the Windows 7 community instead of “competing” with the dumb vibe pseudo “coders” at my workplace”. To my knowledge it is the first attempt to do such things on the entire Internet.

Today i’m not planning any fancy stuff, just a plain USB drive ejector at your disposal. Script ejects all connected flash drives. If drive is in use or some software is locking flash drive it won’t be ejected [obviously]. @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set "drivelist=%temp%\usb_drives_list.txt" del "%drivelist%" >nul 2>nul for /f "skip=1 tokens=1" %%D in ('wmic logicaldisk where "drivetype=2" get deviceid') do ( if exist "%%D\" ( echo %%D>>"%drivelist%" ) ) if not exist "%drivelist%" ( echo No flash drives found!

Most of Windows 7 users are already familiar with the excellent [VXKex] kernel extension. It allows us to execute loads of artificially “incompatible” applications on time-tested Windows 7 operating system. Frankly speaking, the development of the original version is not so extensive these days. So, i have to provide a more recent fork, called [VXKex Next] , which is currently in very active development. [QUICK DL LINK] That’s all for today’s blip note.

When doing webdev tasks, I often run into situations where browsers start to glitch due to a stuck cache. Page elements do not being update properly and reload [F5] or even magic [CTRL+F5] does not work at all. Here are two simple batch scripts to hard reset the system cache for Firefox and Chrome based browsers. @echo off taskkill /IM chrome.exe /F >nul 2>&1 || echo Chrome is not running timeout /t 2 /nobreak >nul rmdir /s /q "C:\Users\YOUR-PROFILE-NAME\AppData\Local\Supermium\User Data\Default\Code Cache" rmdir /s /q "C:\Users\YOUR-PROFILE-NAME\AppData\Local\Supermium\User Data\Default\Cache" start "" "%ProgramFiles%\Supermium\chrome.

This script collects all MP4 video files located in D:\Videos [including subfolders], that where created or modified today and copies them to all connected flash drives. 3,4,5 flash drives? Software doesn’t care about the number of connected sticks. Before copying it creates two lists in the Temp system folder: matching files and available flash drives. When the copy is complete, it beeps through the speakers via standard WAV and displays the GUI report window.

I use OBS on a daily basis to grab tracker music off the screen, so i am interested in keeping it up-to-date for as long as possible. Previously i [already covered] topic on how to run unsupported version of OBS in Windows 7 environment. But it is already 2025 for God’s sake, and we need some refreshment for sure. Essential information to make this note happen has been spotted on the [Eclipse forums] .

If we’re talking about quick deployments XAMPP is certainly a good thing, but if we want to have complete manual control over things happening under the hood for a more solid and comprehensive approach custom technology bundler is a not so good thing to do. So, in this blip note i will tell you how to glue Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL technologies together. Assuming that PHP 8.4 is installed to:

UPDATED ON: 2025-04-17 Project to test JS/PHP queries in real life tasks. The “Submit Your Vote” button becomes active only after you select one of the options and enter a unique number of more than 5 digits (not letters). TECHNOLOGY STACK FRONTEND SIDE HTML markup: PUG Pure JavaScript/SCSS Node.js 23.7 [hacked] Webpack 5.98 VS Code 1.93 [hacked] BACKEND SIDE XAMPP [for making PHP 8.2 work on Windows 7] APACHE [embedded version] PostgreSQL 14 PGAdmin 6.

UPDATED ON: 2025-04-14 Testing out waters with database technologies and custom written web-based applications. This project includes the following tech: Webpack as a module bundler to compile the whole project PUG as a modern, modular replacement for classic HTML SCSS for graphics rendering and animation [btw, no images were used] JavaScript for POST/GET queries to the PHP backend PHP to retrieve needed data from database Apache for hosting server-side logic IMPLEMENTED FUNCTIONALITY

UPDATED ON: 2025-08-10 Friday has been landed. We are on the edge. The bridge day. The transformation into a blobby-hill-slacker in horizontal reclining posture has begun. I am mentally exhausted from work, self-study and my environment and would like to do something that I am not tired of. Luckily it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything Windows 7-related on these pages. So it is a perfect time to do materialize such desires.

Supporting Windows 7 almost every day for numerous years i have to admit that operating system is getting harder and harder to support, but it is definitely possible and we still don’t have the right to consider it as an obsolete environment. To install latest Electron framework: npm install electron --save-dev If you work in a corporate environment with tightened security, such as a government structure or banking institution, you will almost certainly end up with this error:

PostgreSQL Windows 7 support is a piece of dog sh#t. That is why you almost always have a loads of quirks on the table here and there. Beware that i’ve described Postgre installer in a soft words, it deserves way more. Original installer skips almost all things which should be done by a proper one: it won’t initialize your database it won’t kickstart windows service it won’t setup system environment with correct variables it f#cks up user roles it throws loads of errors in your face like Problem running post-install step.

The most recent version of Hugo framework [v0.144.0.2] was hacked to run in Windows 7 environment. You can obtain it [here] . Now you can enjoy beyond official support. Thanks goes out to ANightly!

Recently on [my Discord channel] ANightly dropped [a very interesting Windows 7 link] , related to software patched to work in Windows 7 environment. I will surely add it to appropriate sections of my website: [Windows 7 modern software] and [Windows 7 lifecycle support] .

When installing latest drivers for Nvidia videocards in Windows 7 you may encounter error code 52 in the device manager ending up with non-working device. To fix annoying problem in a simple way follow these steps: Download latest driver [v475.14] [Jul 09, 2024] and decompress software by means of [7-zip] Open extracted folder, locate the Display.Driver folder and delete nvlddmkm.sy_ file inside Download [hacked version] ||| [Mega mirror] , and place nvlddmkm.

Previously, I already wrote [some posts] about transformations and that was dedicated to Windows 7. With Windows 7 compatibility getting worse by the day, some users have already been forced to at least switch to Windows 10 to keep up with progress. For those of you who can’t stand the atrocious native look of Windows 10, here’s the [Reunion 7] , which is based on Windows 10 LTSC and emulates 99% of the Windows 7 style.

First things first, here is a list of important applications that can help you neutralize unwanted traces of external storage. [USBDeview] ► Manually remove traces from USB sticks and other external devices [USBOblivion] ► Automatic cleaner that removes every possible trace of inserted external storage [Shellbag Analyzer] ► Remove shellbag keys that contain information about your personal activities like: folder names, paths to folders [including deleted ones]. It is also a good idea to look in the registry to make sure that all traces have been completely removed.

Today we are going to make a deep dive into advanced file management and automation. There are several scenarios for copying files from external storage that are described here. ► COPY SPECIFIC FILE TYPES FROM MULTIPLE FOLDERS ON ANY EXTERNAL DRIVE TO THE LOCAL HARD DRIVE This script will copy ALL JPG FILES from folders TEST1 and TEST2, which are located on any flash-drive to folder 1234 located on local drive C.

Warning! You are about to enter highly theoretical zone. This small article is a result of a late night chat with ChatGPT about theoretical and practical limits of performance achievable using conventional lithography, so consider it a first collaborative effort of myself and AI. Also i will try to extrapolate this topic to Windows 7 environment. If you’re a user of an old operating system, that doesn’t mean you don’t want to have a good system performance.

Most of you have favorite PC audio player of their own, in my case it is [Foobar2000] . In Android 6 times there was a wonderful software called [Foobar 2000 Controller] . It was made to control audio player remotely from your smartphone in a convenient way. For some reason i recall it today and decided to record installing process for future use. Guys from [Hydrogen Audio] forum helped me out in some questions and pointed me to the right direction.

UPDATED ON: 2024-11-14 I just realized that there is no security tests in browser area, only performance related benchmarks. Today we shall fix that small gap with the help of [BrowserAudit] service. ► BROWSER SCORES BROWSER OK+ WARN! CRIT! SKIP- R3dFox 132 286 145 0 0 Firefox ESR 115.17 289 142 0 0 Supermium 124* 289 142 0 0 Palemon 33.4 302 129 0 0 Seamonkey 2.53.19 295 136 0 0 Mull 132** 359 32 0 40 IceRaven 132** 363 28 0 40 *Supermium v126 is not tested due its instability and slow GUI interactions **Android-based browsers

I used to think that the 18.x version was [the last to run on Windows 7] . And now I am glad to tell you that enthusiast hackers from Russia made quite a neat and generous thing to backport NodeJS 22 to Windows 7 environment. Such occurrence was super useful since i was already running into some limitations with [NodeJS 18] and was thinking about moving my project to the Linux environment.

WE ALL WANTED THAT, DIDN’T WE? [Tor Browser 14.X] based upon Firefox 128 ESR is finally hacked to work in Windows 7. Thanks flies out to valorous [Blaukovitch] !!!! Here is a safe [Mega.nz mirror] to preserve history as usual. Also you might be interesed in [original site] and [Github page] of the developer.

No illusions here, because it is a pretty transparent question and you don’t have to be an overwhelmingly smart person to understand it. Here is a handy list of straight facts about why Linux will always be your secondary operating system and not your primary one: as of 2024 we have over 600 [!!!] distributions of Linux, just look at [distrowatch] Why do we need them all? plethora of desktop environments > 50 [if we count only major ones it will be close to 20] As if three variations were not enough?

UPDATED ON: 2024-10-16 If someone doesn’t like this kind of information, I will remove it immediately on first request without any questions. Since we have crossed the EOL line of Windows 7 POS support, I think no one will mind if I post the list of current activators for the Windows 7 operating system. As far as I know, we have four options to choose from: [DAZ loader] ► 108% working solution to activate distributions based upon classic MBR partition [KMS by Ratiborus] ► rearming software, which can activate GPT-based Pro and Enterprise editions [KMS rearm script] ► rearming scipt, which can activate GPT-based Pro and Enterprise editions [RemoveWAT] ► legacy GPT compatible activator [not maintained anymore] Also list of activators can be found on [this page] .