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In a bittersweet farewell, Windows Embedded POSReady 7, the last surviving iteration of the iconic Windows 7, has officially reached its end of life. This marks a significant milestone in the history of Microsoft's operating systems, coming nearly five years after the mainstream desktop version...

In a landscape of operating systems for PCs, where Windows 10 continues its reign as the dominant player and Windows 7 lingers like your uncle who won't leave the party, Windows 11 is starting to make some notable moves. Despite its relative youth, the OS is experiencing increased adoption...

In a significant shift aimed at modernizing its software, Microsoft has announced that legacy Digital Rights Management (DRM) services will no longer support playback in Windows Media Player, Silverlight, Windows 7, and Windows 8. This move, detailed on a recently updated support page by...

In recent times, Windows 11 has been at the forefront of user customization discussions, and the desire for a more personalized experience has led to some exciting developments. One of the most notable advancements is the ability to reinstate the classic Windows 7 Start menu and taskbar in the...

While Microsoft continues to enhance Windows 11 with features like Copilot, users of older Windows versions such as XP, Windows 7, and Vista can feel left out. Interestingly, there’s a way for these users to experiment with Copilot, albeit not through official Microsoft channels. This article...

I had moved to another area and when I try to remember passwords/access names I get errors from the websites.. I have different sites with different names/sources historically, from XP, WIndows 7, 8.1,10 and now with 11. I suspect that Windows remember passwords/usernames from history. How do...

Hi Since yesterday, some of the websites have been opened on WIFI, but not on LAN. Our users are using Win 7, Win 10 & Win 11. They are trying to open some websites with LAN connection but websites are not opening. When they try to open with WIFI, the websites are working. In the past, both...

Hello, I have some mini-PC problems, it started when Windows 10 kept pushing updates to flood my 32gb hard drives to a mere 100 mb's in my Asus VivoSticks TS10 making them inoperable. I had to keep deleting updates everyday and could not shut down the automatic updates in the policies no matter...

We have a server that shows multiple users at the login screen. An employee who just left didn't pass along any of the passwords needed to log in and we're stuck. If we reset the password for one of the users shown, will it affect data/apps/etc for any of the others? There's a needed program...

Hello folks, I have an old dual boot Windows PC. One OS is Win XP which is on one HDD (has 2 partitions), the other one is Win 7 which is on another HDD (has 2 partitions too). I believe the boot manager was on the Win XP HDD since the dual boot menu was always shown from there. However, the Win...

Long story short: Every installation of Windows i do is swapping stereo channels L/R to R/L ONLY when running 3D applications. This is DEFINATELY a software/windows issue because windows sound test in sound panel or youtube stereo channel test is correct (channels arent swapped). Once i run...

So I've never used a Windows 7 on a Toshiba laptop and I just wiped the system last night and when it got through being wiped it went back to the main screen and when I try to connect to the network it said no connection turn on network adapters and it's a Toshiba satellite with a Windows 7 on...

My Windows 7 backup has been failing consistently for some time. The most relevant event log entry seems to be the following: The event ID is 8194 ----------------- Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error querying for the IVssWriterCallback interface. hr = 0x80070005, Access is...

Hey guyz. Its been 48 hours since the door for windows is locked, I tried dual booting windows 7 for some project purpose... But since then windows have kept me stuck in BIOS and the loading error page since then. IMP NOTE: It won't reset, nor any commands in terminal helps, tried bunch of...

My old labtop with Windows 7 installed does not connect to wifi anymore. The wifi signal is very strong and it is recognised by the system. I removed the wireless adapter (Intel pro wireless 220bg) and dowloaded new drivers from Intel but all without succes! Anybody a suggestion how to handle...

One thing I'd like to do is make the titlebar of every single app I open on my Windows 11 look like the Windows Vista titlebar. On XP, 7, and Vista, apps weren't able to have custom titlebars. Now they are, and it sucks. Anyone know how to change it?

Yeah... Modern hardware w/ Windows 7 doesn't mix well. Only driver I am missing is my well graphics driver. I have a Ryzen 5 with the Radeon vega graphics and it definetly does support WDDM because it runs windows 10 and 11. To be super specific, this is my computer.

I have an old TOSHIBA laptop that hasn't been used in 5 or more years. It came with Windows 7. A HUGE mistake I made was to upgrade to Windows 10, in spite of warnings that the machine really can't handle the upgrade. Boy, the warnings were right. The computer became super-slow, I guess because...

Hello No matter how many times I change the position of the desktop background photos in windows 7 and 10 to center or fit and save them, but it automatically returns to fill mode after 2 seconds??!!😔😔☹️

Read title. I've used CLS but can't find a W7 skin.. help!