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
    2017-06-28T06:48:57+00:00

    Yes, that solution works, but there is a newer, easier way: https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-05-30T02:23:34+00:00

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-08-29T06:42:19+00:00

    No offence taken ;) And indeed, M$ should fix this! But till then I just trusted the github and open source community that the patch didn't load anything nasty on my PC (it is my personal PC, used for gaming, so not really worried about data on it getting corrupted).

    The chips (in my opinion) don't really need any special code from M$ (as processors are always backward compatible). In the worst case, some new instructions from the new chip are not used to the max (I can live with that for now).

    So yes, it is a bit risky, I don't recommend doing it on a work computer with critical data on it. But for gaming Windows 7 still rules and it doesn't spy you as much as Windows 10.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-08-03T06:20:33+00:00

    You'll find most users who do not hate W10 don't have a clue about OSes and are only casual users.

    You'll find that most users who hate W10 are at least Power Users who have had issues with W10.

    And losing WMC is not a "hang-up".

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  5. 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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