Virgin installation of Win 7 SP1 with the 'convenience update'

[Blindman]

The installation disk installs IE which is so old now that I'm getting website Certificate errors and the customer (bless him) doesn't understand that everything's moved on.

He can ask a question and get information but he can't access trusted sites because IE v2.0 or whatever it is, doesn't have the right SSL. I'm going to try an offline installer so he can at least get a recent browser and I'm hoping that will solve the certificates errors. Can anyone confirm?

Also, can anyone think of any other problems he might encounter because he's on win 7? The machine only does email, pics and docs and I have all the essential drivers but I know something's going to come up, just can't think of what it might be.

Thanks - rev

[Midknyte]

Google Chrome 109 is the last version that supported Win7. That's a pretty old version, so it may still fail some security checks.

If you need a Chrome-based browser, you could try Supermium:
https://github.com/win32ss/supermium

Firefox 115 ESR still works on Win7, but support ends in March 2025.
https://www.ghacks.net/2024/09/09/mo...macos-devices/

Firefox 115 ESR support is extended until at least March 2025.

Why are they still running Win7?

[jdc2000]

If he does not want to pay for Windows 10 (which will be out of support in 2025 also), you could just install a version of Linux. If he only does email, web browsing, pictures and documents, that would work. Firefox, Thunderbird, and LibreOffice should be all he needs.

[Blindman]

Thanks, I would have got the wrong version without that info.

>Why are they still running Win7?
Inbreeding, upbringing, his family tree is a flatline...

[Midknyte]

Note that for Chrome 109, there is a pop-up about future updates.

You can run the following in a command prompt to suppress it:
REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome" /v SuppressUnsupportedOSWarning /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f