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Re: Is it too late to do a fresh install of win7?
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2016, 02:58:20 AM »
 

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According to MS,
Windows 7 is in extended support till Jan 2020, and you can still buy it pre-installed till Oct 2016.
So there is still some life in it yet.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet
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Is it too late to do a fresh install of win7?
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2016, 09:45:19 PM »
 

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As some of you may remember, I had some problems with LL hanging at boot up in  Win8.1/LL2.8 i.e. with laptop1 in signature. This occurred either with a GPT formatted SSD (with UEFI) or an MSDOS (MBR) formatted SSD (without UEFI installed). I got the impression from someone on the forum that this problem didn't occur with a win7 or 10 dual-boot.

To test this I would therefore like to set up a win7/LL2.8 dual boot on an SSD. I have the win7 installation disk but are the updates still available? I ask this because the other day I tried a fresh install of win7 and was connected to the internet (300Mb/s) for several hours for initial updating & patching with little success - I thought updates were available until April 2019, as with LL2.8 ...

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2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)  
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work
 

 

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