Windows 7 annoying "Unsupported Hardware" pop ups

Anonymous
2017-04-12T08:22:47+00:00

I, just like most users hate Windows 10 for so many issues and bugs. It has usability issues and so many problems that Windows support team chooses ignore despite multiple complaints. Microsoft knows this very well but they keep hush about all this. Now to add to it, Windows 7 (the best OS so far) keeps giving a warning that my Intel Core i7 (7700k) processor is not supported.

I'm sorry but Windows 10 is officially the **** and buggiest product I've ever used. And I'm never going to switch to it until every problem has been fixed. Please do something about these annoying "unsupported processor" pop ups. If this is not resolved soon I'm going to write an entire blog about this and I'm sure there are many users who feel the same. Now this is not a small issue and I suggest to take this at the highest priority.

Every user should be allowed to use whatever version of Windows that suits their needs and is comfortable to use.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-03-11T22:56:36+00:00

    This works for me:

    https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc

    Download the latest version of wufuc and install. All good.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-03-11T22:57:19+00:00

    This works for me:

    https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc

    Download the latest version of wufuc and install. All good.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-03-12T18:50:16+00:00

    You bet, that would be a definite possibility, but do you think an organization like MS cares in the first place, Back in the days of dos when you  use things like peek poke and other commands that would let you run hardware directly, greatest thing on the earth, they took that capability  away from us. I asked a tech that worked for them why and he said "Officially  we dont want you getting into things that you can do  that would damage or destroy your computer, Unofficially, we dont want you  to  have the capability  to  easily look at the way we do things and come with competitive solutions." That  is and has  been  their management's view of us,m  the users, all  along. I  wish  there  was  a way that we could  all get together and tell them  "Get your  act together and treat us right or your history, and just everyone shut them  off for  a week  and let them see what we think.   It's sad when you look at a company like they are and see the opportunities they have to  really help society world wide  and they squander it with the stuff they put out. If they thought about it their updates to  new systems would not require  you to take on a whole  new learning curve for a new OS,  ie look  at linux. You have god  knows how many different flavors of the OS but all of them use 95% the  same commands,  It  is worked on by 100  times more people around the world  than work  as MS and they dont all  work on the same OD flavor of Linux  but when they update the OS to  a new version, there is very little you have to  learn on the new system. MS has the technology, the expertise and the ability with out  having the problem of a lot of people working in different parts of the world on different flavors of Windows, to put  a really outstanding, and do  updates without destroying things.  Linux updates very  very rarely cause problems,  MS almost always does in one way or another.  People make good money off linux in support  and business software and it is growing very fast. MS products, like windows 10  just plain  suck because their  updates cause problems, they dont tell you or give you a choice, they just sneak things in  on you, their software reports back to  them  on what you are doing, without  your permission in some cases.  It's just sad to  see so much possibility  flushed down the toilet, which at this point is where windows 10  belongs in my opinion, its  not to bad if you do  run of the mill  everyday  low level  user stuff, built when you experiment a lot, its a really bad system.              As far a finding most people like windows 10, I  dont know who your asking but the majority people I talk to  are geeks and experimenters and I  have yet to  hear of any that haven't gone back to  win7 if the software they want to  run will  let them. Like I said for the average person windows 10 is "alright" but even their they have complaints as far as the ones I talked to.  SOme do Like it, hell, I like the idea of it, but its a pain in the ass to work with.  Some of the stuff they do  in their setup  and parameter changing is 10  times hared to get around in and some methods have been removed that are fairly needed. Why? I really am not against windows 10, I  am against making changes for the sake of making changes, for instance moving an item from a know location to  an unknown location but the function works the same, that is just stupid. They really  really need to  stop  and look at changing their policy  to  putting the user first and getting off whatever it is that they are on that causes them to  think they have to change everything around ever 5 or 10  years just of  let people know they are doing something.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-03-15T18:57:22+00:00

    You can actually just disable updates through the Services.msc console, and then use a 3rd party tool to manually update the system once a month, you will need to re-enable the update service to manually install the updates, but that is the way we do it here.. I too hate windows 10, and until they fix the bugs, and the major personal security hole, i will run 7, and when that's gone, i will run Linux.. Oh well nice to know you Microsoft.. 

    Software you will need: 

    1. DVD burner, (Internal or external) 
    2. Sleeve of DVD-R disks
    3. A way to Burn DVD-R disk (Windows internal burner?) 

    Download http://download.wsusoffline.net/wsusoffline1111.zip

    Install it.. 

    Run it, and it will download the latest updates from Microsoft's site.. 

    You can then burn them to a DVD and install them when you want.. 

    This absolutely works to keep up to date, and not have microsoft force you to update to spyware.. 

    Side note: https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc/releases/tag/v0.7.1.81

    That works too...

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-03-23T16:59:00+00:00

    I am installing OEM 8.1 and after the second round of updates I get the unsupported hardware message with a RYZEN processor.

    However, I have neither KB4015549 nor KB4012218.

    I haven't been able to find anything specific to 8.1 for this problem. Like here, the only solutions have been for 7. What date were those 7 updates pushed so I can focus my search on my update list?

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