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
    2017-04-16T22:22:56+00:00

    That is a popular strategy - just install security updates (the Group B folks)

    I am still running a MOS 6502 over here so I have never seen that KB in real life and now understand it does come up as a security update (but I will never see it).  Maybe somebody will buy me a nice i7 one of these days.

    It could be that there are some security fixes in it or MS has just labeled it like that since they KNOW many folks have adopted the "security updates only" strategy.

    It took MS months to figure out a solution to Windows Update that we (the community) figured out back in August and then they just distilled our findings, solutions and ideas into their own KB.

    Looks like it is time for the community to figure out the best solution to this new problem too - hopefully just uninstalling those 2 updates is a good solution but anybody can come up with other ideas too!

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-04-20T21:45:51+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-05-08T23:48:38+00:00

    To expand on this i have found a workaround today that worked for me. Windows 7 machine with a 7th Gen CPU i7-7700. This fix got rid of that message for me.

    Hopefully it will save someone the hours it took me to finally resolve it. I posted on our website here.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-05-10T06:40:33+00:00

    Yes windows 10 are the worse, most spying OS ever maded. I don't like it too.

    Especially with this new look which started in windows 8.

    If they continue to do OS like this I will switch all of my users to linux desktop.

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