Win 7 Question

Wow! Twenty-five thousand dollars! Good luck.

$25 K??!! Why the heck so much unless you have some exotic hardware. You can buy a good computer for $2K or much less, and transfer the files and software to the new box from the old one. I resisted Win10 for a long time but finally gave in and find that it runs just about anything Win7 does. There are some exceptions, generally old games and with enough persistence you can get those running. One of your local computer shops can handle the whole thing for you.

But for Win7 you can keep on running it until the computer dies, no security updates so get a good antivirus if you go online at all.

agesilaus wrote:


But for Win7 you can keep on running it until the computer dies, no security updates so get a good antivirus if you go online at all.

This is my plan

Run Win 7 in VirtualBox on Win 10. Works very well.

Our tower was really getting long in the tooth and since no more support for 7 we just bought a new tower. Bought the maintenance plan for $200 and got a totally refurbished laptop. Cost about $700...

navigator2346 wrote:
My computer is running Win7 and I have some software and hardware that is Win7 only. All I am getting told is the only option is to upgrade hardware and software to the tune of about $25K!

I know about no security upgrades. etc but there has to be something else that can be done so I can continue with Win7. The computer has to be connected to the internet for some functions.

Any ideas> What about running it behind a VPN?

i can run old software in win10 in compatibility mode. would that work for you?

What are you trying to run?

$25k is awfully high price...so either you have very specialized needs or you don't understand what you need and someone is abusing your lack of knowledge.

navigator2346 wrote:
My computer is running Win7 and I have some software and hardware that is Win7 only. All I am getting told is the only option is to upgrade hardware and software to the tune of about $25K!

I know about no security upgrades. etc but there has to be something else that can be done so I can continue with Win7. The computer has to be connected to the internet for some functions.

Any ideas> What about running it behind a VPN?

i can run old software in win10 in compatibility mode. would that work for you?

valhalla360 wrote:
What are you trying to run?

$25k is awfully high price...so either you have very specialized needs or you don't understand what you need and someone is abusing your lack of knowledge.

The computer controls a security system data base and logs entry and exit of the users. Problem is the old controllers and software are not compatible with Win 10. It would require me to replace all the controllers update the software causing the large price tag.

I don't know if a 10 computer running in compatibility mode would work or not.

rk911 wrote:

navigator2346 wrote:
My computer is running Win7 and I have some software and hardware that is Win7 only. All I am getting told is the only option is to upgrade hardware and software to the tune of about $25K!

I know about no security upgrades. etc but there has to be something else that can be done so I can continue with Win7. The computer has to be connected to the internet for some functions.

Any ideas> What about running it behind a VPN?

i can run old software in win10 in compatibility mode. would that work for you?

Compatibility mode does not "always" work, not to mention some software installers will puke at Win10 due to the wrong version of Internet Exploder (and YES, I HAVE personally experienced that with Adobe Photoshop Elements).

And yes, I HAVE made even old fashion DOS programs run on XP, Win7 but I can assure you, Win10 is a different creature and most likely the only way to make them run is using a Virtual Machine (VM)..

VM may be the best bet for the OPs situation, basically Win10 is the "Host" operating system and the Win7 is a "Guest" of the Host in a Virtual environment.

OP will want Win10 PRO or Enterprise Pro depending on the license in order to be able to use MS VMs..

Guest OS is isolated unless you specifically grant permissions to Internet and USB ports for that VM and IF your VM gets a virus, it is contained within the VM and you can simply delete and replace with a backup copy of the VM..

Your PC MUST have enough RAM for the Host and Guest operating systems to function correctly, I would say min of 8gb of RAM for Host and 8GB RAM for each Guest VM they wish to use at the same time..

Quad core processor would be a good place to start although you can get away with a dual core your VM speed may suffer some.