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?

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.