Bypass Windows 7 Extended Security Updates Eligibility

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by abbodi1406, Nov 17, 2019.

  1. penkoffpentest

    penkoffpentest MDL Novice

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  2. Skunk1966

    Skunk1966 MDL Member

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    uninstall Acrobat completely and reinstall will fix it
     
  3. new369one

    new369one MDL Novice

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    Yes with all folders and appdata folders and so on!

    edit: and clean your registration (folder) per regedit.exe
     
  4. penkoffpentest

    penkoffpentest MDL Novice

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    I had indeed done that, but to no avail. Fortunately, Revo Uninstaller managed to clean everything and allow for a reinstall. Thanks anyway guys
     
  5. rhreznor

    rhreznor MDL Member

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    I may need a thread. I have a SSD to replace the failing HDD that one 7 is on. The 7 I asked about here I junked it. Back to the failing 7. Cloned it to the SSD and boom. Grub repair
    The SSD was formatted and no partition. The cloned 7 has had Lumix. Have to get it out then we discuss how to get the updates to work
     
  6. alzcoew397

    alzcoew397 MDL Senior Member

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    still cant understand...you add 4/5/6 years of support on your KB and at the same time you announced the end of support.....i hope MS gonna make the surprise even in the last minute....
     
  7. Cab0oze

    Cab0oze MDL Novice

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    Yeah, I pretty much just came here to say the same thing. Big thanks to abbodi1406 and all who contributed to keeping Win7 alive for so many of us.
    I'm on the fence in terms of what my next step should be. Any thoughts on here as to whether a 0Patch Pro license is worth while?
     
  8. Shortyportuguese

    Shortyportuguese MDL Senior Member

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    WES7 is still in support till October, and POSREADY 7 till October 2024... So...
     
  9. new369one

    new369one MDL Novice

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    In german abwarten (bide).
     
  10. FuzzleSnuz

    FuzzleSnuz MDL Junior Member

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    I've been using 0patch free for the last 2 months on two of my PCs and I just bought the pro license a couple days ago. I have had a positive experience with it so far. The program itself is relatively nonintrusive, though it may significantly add to your computer's boot time for large and/or slow disks. This is because it scans every single file on your disk for patchable modules on some boots, but not all boots.

    If you buy the pro license and you also use the ESU bypass, do not be surprised to see that 0patch is applying just 1 or 2 or even 0 patches to your system! This is due to the very reasonable release engineering of 0patch, where ACROS has decided on only 4 baseline versions of Win 7 to support. This reduces the amount of human effort required by them, so they only need to write, test, and offer support for their patches for 4 versions of Win 7, instead of for 36 versions of Win 7 (12 months x 3 years).

    These are the 4 baselines:
    • You have KB4534310 (Jan 14 2020) installed and never took a single ESU update (i.e. most consumer Win 7 devices)
    • You have the final update of ESU Year 1 update installed (KB4598279, Jan 2021) and never took any Year 2 or later updates
    • You have the final update of ESU Year 2 update installed (KB5009610, Jan 2022) and never took any Year 3 or later updates
    • You have the final update of ESU Year 3 update installed (KB???????, Jan 2023) and never took any Year 4 or later updates
    0patch (Pro) will only have a significant effect on your system only if your computer EXACTLY matches any of those 4 situations. In all other situations, 0patch will only apply 1 or 0 or just a small handful of patches your computer. This is the case for my PC and yours as well if you have KB5021291 installed (December 2022 monthly rollup). So, even though I have the Pro version which unlocks access to all their NT 6.1 patches, I still just have 1 patch applied, because my computer does not precisely match any of the 4 baselines. Please don't give them hate for this; it's a very reasonable thing to do. For those of us using the bypass and staying current with all the ESU updates, we will only see a benefit from 0patch if the Jan 2023 rollup is the last ESU update we are able to install.

    Lastly, it is important to note that, so far, 0patch has been largely equivalent to the ESU updates. There is a lot of overlap in what both solutions do for your PC. The number of applicable 0patches available for your PC may still be small post Jan 2023 if you have every update from all 3 years of ESU installed. It may take a few months for things to diverge and the patch count to grow.

    You can read more about all of this on their support site and blog.
     
  11. FuzzleSnuz

    FuzzleSnuz MDL Junior Member

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    #6713 FuzzleSnuz, Jan 5, 2023
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    Sure, this is a thing, but what about Azure? Since the very dawn of ESU Microsoft has always advertised a Year 4 of ESU for Server 2008 R2 instances running on their Azure platform. I'd wager there is more parity between 7 and 2008 R2 compared to 7 and WES7 or POS7. I'd rather tap into those updates. It's what abbodi's Vista ESU bypass does - installs the Server 2008 updates on a Vista client.

    The biggest problem would be if these updates are only released internally and are not available through WSUS or the catalog website. We'd have to get access to a Server 2008 R2 Azure instance and rip the files from it.

    (please do not merge this as a double post; it is a fundamentally different topic from my previous post)
     
  12. BernieBildman

    BernieBildman MDL Junior Member

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    Browsers Opera, Chrome, Edge and Firefox are discontinuing support of their browsers running under Win 7 after January 2023 (although Firefox MAY extend support).

    I'm curious as to the reaction/insight of users here about this.

    Thanks
     
  13. Cab0oze

    Cab0oze MDL Novice

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    Given the small amount of time/effort it takes for them to maintain it (given how many people still use 7), I wish they'd continue to support it - at least firefox, since that's what I use. If they do end support, I imagine some fork will continue to maintain support though so I'm not super concerned in the short term. Time will tell.
     
  14. Najoua

    Najoua MDL Novice

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    you mean Until 2024 on firefox esr 114 ESR on Windows 7 and 8.1 like they did on Firefox esr 52.9.0 to extend it until 2018 on Windows XP and Vista
     
  15. Skunk1966

    Skunk1966 MDL Member

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    this topic is about the ESU BYpass NOT about browser support!
    Keep it clean please!!!
     
  16. BernieBildman

    BernieBildman MDL Junior Member

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    Sorry about that, really. Could you tell me if there is a forum/topic here where this might be discussed?? Thanks
     
  17. Chuterix

    Chuterix MDL Senior Member

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    For @BernieBildman and others:
    To prevent clutter of this BypassESU thread with browser support, I have created a new thread for the discussion of browser support on Windows 7:
    https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/browser-support-for-windows-7.86383/
    Please discuss your thoughts about browser support here.

    P.S. Admins/Mods: I'm not sure if you can move these posts to the new thread while keeping my first post at the top of the thread. Because I created the thread after this issue has been persisting for a while.
     
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