We need Windows 7 compatibility please

> I downgraded back to 7

Windows 7 is NOT a downgrade! Windows 10 is the downgrade! Windows 10 is a travesty of an operating system. It is hideously ugly. Plus, I take privacy seriously, and Windows 10 has done away with privacy. So there's no way in hell I would touch that hellish operating system.

It's very sad that after 26 years of using their software, Adobe has now abandoned me, and all Windows 7 users.

I mean, this isn't just like when we switched from Windows 95 to Windows 98 - or from XP to Windows 7. In those cases, there was a clear need for a newer, better operating system, and the newer version had been massively improved. Each release also looked much more attractive. However, the switch to Windows 10 is a HUGE step backwards! Windows 7 is a great operating system, perfectly suited to modern requirements. Windows 10 offers no improvements, looks ugly, makes everything worse, and destroys privacy. Why would anyone want it? Not me!

For now, I'll continue to use old versions of Adobe software, and keep praying that maybe one day Adobe will support Linux. If Adobe supported Linux, I would be happy to make the switch. But design is my life, so right now I'm stuck with Windows 7.

When I built this current machine in 2017, I originally planned to use Win7, but I'm really glad I went with w10 at that point. All the programs I've used over the years to make Win7 like XP and the Win10 like Win7 so it is like XP are all out there. First thing to use is Classic Start Menu and go from there. Win 10 is much nicer and reliable then Win7 was. I still have one machine with w7 and PP2017.

My impression is that operating systems ( OS) over the years changed along with hardware and programs. Sorta like leapfrog game.

8 bit, 16, 32, 64 etc.

I use an old quark express program ( probably 32 bit ) 'as administrator' on win 10 ( which I also hate like you but it is manifestly due to SAS junk ) and Quark works OK when I run it that way on 10.

It's nice to talk to a dinosaur like you !

🙂

I loved the ability to make macros on the 'desktop' of Win3.11. Create a short text file to say : "Open Excel, update the Totals range, select Totals as the Printing Range, print 3 copies." That OS is LONG dead. I've missed that capability ever since.

I loved XP after I figured out how to work the custom modifications I wanted. LONG dead.

Win7 weren't bad ... it just was. Wasn't as easy to modify as XP.

Win10 ... personally, I can't tell any working difference whatever. I did use the personalization controls so my OS 'looks' like Win7, and past that, it works perfectly. And is an identical experience to Win7.

Which will never, ever be supported for any new software ever.

Neil

Nevermind, I got it!

Dead product

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4057281/windows-7-support-ended-on-january-14-2020

Short answer: nope.