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:

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.

UPDATED ON: 2024-08-29 Node.js dropped Windows 7 “support” rigth after [version number 13] .What a load of sh#t. Today i’ll tell you how to overcome this nonsense and run latest LTS version [Node.JS 18.x] without any problems. More newer versions may work also. I’ll leave you some room for experiments. Recently i found excellent already [patched installer of NodeJS 18] First of all you need to download zipped version of software, not msi one.