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no more windows 7 updates?

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  • LHW99
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    wonder how many people are still running win95?
    Yes, as per Blackbeard, still have 95 (98, 98SE, XP, VISTA) for various programs / boards that can't be updated for legacy control functions. All offline though.
  • Happygreen
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    FWIW, Classic Shell (http://classicshell.net/) gives a Windows 7 appearance to Windows 10. It is free, I use it on 2 x laptops and 1 x desktop, works great.

    Cannot help with obsolete printer though...

    It wasn't the visual appearance that infuriated me in 10, lots of other changes incorporated and stuff I could no longer find in the system.
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  • Happygreen
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    Neil_Jones wrote: »
    Which printer do you have OP? There may be another driver you can feed it to get it working. Sometimes you can just plug them in and Windows knows what to do with it out of the box...

    I searched back then, all I found were virus riddled pretend sources for drivers. Nothing from HP. It's the HP Deskjet F 4580.
    First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win - Gandhi
  • dipsomaniac
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    Happygreen wrote: »
    It wasn't the visual appearance that infuriated me in 10, lots of other changes incorporated and stuff I could no longer find in the system.

    it take everyone a couple of days to adjust to a new os

    you need to enable god mode in win10. i have 2 icons on my desktop - recycle bin & god mode
    "The Holy Writ of Gloucester Rugby Club demands: first, that the forwards shall win the ball; second, that the forwards shall keep the ball; and third, the backs shall buy the beer." - Doug Ibbotson
  • 50Twuncle
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    I actually still run a windows 3.1 pc at work, for legacy equipment.

    Until pretty recently (about 6 years ago) - we still used DOS to run a certain legacy program - and that was a government department !!
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