Modern Apps on Windows 7 | Windows 7 Extended Kernel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ย. 2024
- Finally, a Windows 7 extended kernel that actually adds APIs to the OS!
That means, finally, unchanged Google Chrome, Chromium, and Firefox can run on Windows 7. Kind of surprised it took this long, One-Core-API brought this ability to XP in December.
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VxKex (actually a really cool thing, has been in development since early 2022): github.com/i48...
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As of July 21, 2024, VxKex has disappeared.
If you need up-to-date browsers:
Supermium (Chromium): github.com/win32ss/supermium
r3Dfox (Firefox) : github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox
Note that any one of these downloads may trigger a false positive, however I can confirm that they are safe.
The archive has logged it, so it still exists
Podasz linka do pobrania VxKex ? Ten z opisu nie działa
@@laglife even if I'm on windows 10, this browser works 100x better than chrome. I feel like I'm back on a 2007 program where the goal was to have something stable and powerful.
It disappeared once more
@@NTD59 waybackmachine
Windows 7 Extended Kernel is completely crazy
if only we could implement full windows 10/11 compatibility...
we would all be switching back to 7
If we would also get new driver support then i would also switch
and uefi support
@@bendy3096 Secure boot support was added with the latest 2023 ESU updates, Win 7 can be installed in UEFI mode if you wish, but CSM must be kept on because the default "vga.sys" driver of Windows 7 requires it.
@@Asumi-qg2lh But no NVME driver and the support is unofficial
@@jonnyprogamer i have installed windows 7 on uefi class 3 before, no idea how i did it but i think something called uefiseven
@@Pc_User_Pro There are official universal NvME drivers "updates" from Microsoft for Windows 7, they removed them quickly after Windows 10 launched to make people switch over, but if you search for "NVM Express driver hotfix for Windows 7" you will find the KB available on sites such as Lenovo and HP support.
Windows 7 will stay alive waaay longer than somebody expects :D
Till 20-
2100
i have been waiting SO LONG for this you would not believe just how happy i am right now
A Russian developer is trying to get DirectX 12 and vulkan to run on Windows 7 with his team, and is also trying to fix many system-related bugs to achieve the same performance as the new operating systems :)
Dx12 was already (sort of) backported for Windows 7 by Microsoft with games such as Gears 5, Cyberpunk, COD Cold War, MW2019, and some others running.
Can you show me who this guy is? Btw good luck to him and his project
@@jonnyprogamer i'd like to help you but i've already had this project announced for a while on a discord that i joined by chance since this server has been deleted i didn't save the photos of the games he tested the craziest thing in the story is that he got more performance with his project than the official one based on windows 10 & 11 but in any case it was with Warzone 2. 0 battlefield 2042 teardown with the rtx function forcibly deactivated go and find out how he managed this miracle I think he must have given this file which must be lost on a Russian server the games were tested with an rtx 2080
@@KosterEntertainement I have rtx 2080 ti in SLI, i can tell you that Cod Warzone, MW2019 and Cold War natively supported Windows 7 in DirectX12 mode (called d3d12on7, official by microsoft), so making their latest version run isn't that difficult after bypasing OS check and some other stuff.
Also "vkd3d" (dx12 to vulkan) can be used to make many "win 10 dx12 only games" run on Win 7
@@jonnyprogamer can you please show us this on video :)
@@KosterEntertainement I could yes, im planning to make Video showing Win 7 gaming on new games in 2024, with SLI
i still use Windows 7 and this is great news
It's time to rollback to Windows 7!!!
Yea!
People who didn't even upgraded their Windows 7: 😂why do I?
Yes!
@@granitium I have been using Windows 11 for 2 years now both on my main PC and on the laptop I use for school, Windows 10 IoT LTSC for older PCs that are not supported by Windows 11 even if as soon as Windows 11 LTSC comes out I don't waste a single second to upgrade them to 11 (I got tired of Windows 10 because I always hated it), then I have a 2011 PC that has undergone several upgrades and has Windows 7 for some applications or games that I use
I'm Italian and this comment was translated with Google Translate since I know English and it's ok, but composing fairly complex speeches let's say I should improve
@@aletech1121 ok bro glad to hear you
OMG!!!! Thank you so much for the introduction to this! Have been avoiding the Win10 / 11 spyware-built-in OS for so long. And now we could finally continue to use Win 7 forever.
Steam and rockstar games launcher is working?
@@YüzbaşıMordi Not using Rockstar launcher, but Steam client works fine under 7 even without the Extended Kernel.
I wouldn't say forever just yet, but at least there is some hope! (Y)
@gtx1050tiReoaded Some work, some dont. Most of the games actually just adopt some simple "version check" with Win10 kernel32 functions (like Createfile2), that you could simply alter to CreatefileW to make the game work.
Wow, that impressive!
Thanks for the video!
holy shit they have finally done it
Well, for those of you who use Windows 8.1 : You don‘t need an Extended Kernel to run the latest Firefox. It‘s still compatible with Win8. All you need to do is lower the minimum OS Version with CFF Explorer
Sound interesting (Y)
I have an ASUS laptop from 2012 that runs Windows 7 (it originally had Windows 8.0). When I get a power adapter for it I'll install this and see how the latest Chrome runs on that laptop!
update?
@@miohondawhichismywifegrill662 Still not thinking about finding the power adapter yet. I know it's somewhere in my old stuff but haven't gone digging through there yet
First Vista extended kernel, and now 7!? What a surprise!
Now we need Windows 8.1 Extended kernel BOIS!!!!!
Agreed, windows 8.1 is awesome
Yes I miss vxkex on w8.1 ngl
YEA WE NEED IT
Windows 8.1 is underrated tbh such a good os
@@n2e913 yeah i dont understand why ppl hate windows 8.1 because of the full screen start menu like you can install classic shell (i think it was named like that)
finally the day has come
I now want a windows 7 computer
Windows 7 is the best.
finally everyone can use windows 7 without compatibility limits
I have not testing yet bur Respekt for you.
Pretty insane
Nice video!
Can u run rockstar games launcher on windows 7 with this?
Did you try it?
Aw fuck yeah ill be downloading this right after fixing my computer charger
FINALLY !!!
Let's put this into the Test by Giving Windows Vista (and Late Longhorn) a Very Extended Kernel, then also Giving Windows XP (and Early Longhorn) a Super Extended Kernel
Extended Kernel?
Is that possible?
my pc still ru s windows 7 and i found the hope for it to continue!!1!!1!
editing software?
I have windows 7 and this is the best system
Is Steam compatible with this?
Nice Enderman inspired editing
PERFECT!!!!
Excellent video! I do the same but it doesn't work, should any other step or modification be done?
Make sure your 7 is fully up to date, if it's still not working even in a VM then you might want to file an issue
It turned out to run the latest version, but what's the use of it, if in fact the browser cannot be installed
It takes a lot of patience & experimentation for some browser versions.
why is it the windows 10 titlebar
Chrome (and Firefox) render their own titlebars, and since they're only supported on 10/11, they render a 10/11 styled titlebar. Chrome dropped the ability to revert this in 115 or so, Firefox dropped it in 117
Supermium is a good alternative. It uses the Chromium engine.
who are u ma boy insane video 😮
Forgot to mention: It seems like if you don’t have any updates installed on Windows 7, Firefox 124 would not run even you enabled VxKex for that program.
How to install updates?
you can use windows update or update minitool to do that@@bywang1223
@@bywang1223 Mine is very up to date and doesn't work the same thing
Great video! :D
bro you really saved my life!
this is great, thanks to this I can run intellij idea successfully
can they make a windows 8 extended kernel already
Fuck windows 8
wow i will try my windows 7
i still got microsoft edge on my Windows 7 desktop and i had no issues with my PC
WE GOING BACK TO NOSTALGIA 2009 ON THIS ONE 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣👍👍👍👍👍
yeah fr
but it is empty, nothing can be downloaded
do you possibly have a prebuilt iso?
microsoft has turned windows into a glitchy mobile app and refuses to provide their last good os, windows 7. an extended lifespan. but we can always count on the community!
Firefox the program can't start because kxnt.dll is missing from your computer.
Now Formatting to widnows 7 from windows 11
which programs did you tested and not works? is there any app that dont work?
@@ihvspyn all programs worked well for me and hook company level security updates tho
For me both FireFox and Google Chrome say they stopped working.
wasnt there another extended kernel?
I think it was for Windows Vista
does rhino 8 work on win7 with the kernel?
Where did it go? and does anyone know where a legit clean copy can be Found?
I got a 404 error
i keep forgetting windows 7 isnt supported anymore
Well I've been experimenting with VxKex recently, & so far I'm able to run Chromium 124, but no version higher than that. Haven't tried Google Chrome yet. Can run Firefox 127.02 but keeps crashing every minute or so no matter what I do, but functions great before each crash. Can't install/run version 128. Update: Today Firefox 127.02 updated itself to version 128. Runs well but still crashes.
For firefox, you must open it on safe mode by holding shift button then double click firefox.exe. after that you choose open firefox. Type about:config and type legacy. You'll see the value is false. Change it to true. You'll get error and firefox close immediately. No problem, you just open again and check on about:config and make sure it changed to true. Enjoy !
For chromium 125 or above, there's someone who modifing the vxkex's file so it can works well. Unfortunately, the github account of vxkex is gone and i don't have a backup for it.
Now I won't have to update to the damn Windows 11
1 dislike by me, doesn't working, i try this method but after 2 second the chrome keeps crashing, and i have this message, Google Chrome has stopped working
Make sure you've got all available updates installed, this also happened to me when I was using an un-updated installation. Besides that if you've got older hardware this might not work well
Chrome works fine on my pc without any problems, meanwhile firefox keeps crash several minutes.
@@maulanafikriramadhan6871 same man, I can't get firefox to work, I will try chrome and update you.
@@maulanafikriramadhan6871 Google Chrome just says it stopped working
Does it work With windows 8.1 ? Please respond
no he demonstarted that
No way i can finally downgrade to 7 guess what obs steam discord alot of apps will work on 7 though i doubt they will work without errors this is so great that im not forced to use 10 on my old rig anymore!!!
does this work for windows 8
No
Even with updates off, and no internet connection. firefox 120 to 124 crashes in under 2 minutes. Something in aboutconfig must be disabled maybe.
People who have the installer, please upload it to the cloud and send a link, the file has been deleted.
"msvw10.dll" is missing, help me to fix that.
That file is part of VxKex itself, maybe Windows Defender deleted it or something. Try reinstalling VxKex and disable AVs or add an exception for this specific file.
@@laglife I don't have any antivirus or windows defender I don't know what's happening.
why doesn`t the newer versions of Microsoft edge not work on windows 7? Firefox and Goggle Chrome work
It should work, I just haven't found a way of installing it since the installer will somehow detect "Windows 7" even with the version spoofing enabled
I opened it preinstalled but it won`t load but it is running in the task manager I did enable Vxken@@laglife
Windows 10 to 7?
Insane, but Supermium is all we need... plus it has aero. But I use edge as my main so...
there is an extended kernel made by the same creator as VxKex
It's the same project - the VxKex and "extended kernel"
can it run the latest davinci resolve and obs?
OBS doesn't work, I tried that. I don't know about DaVinci Resolve though
Now, running mathtest on windows.
always hated windows 10 settled from 7 to 11 an now Im going back to 7 :)
Any way to get the window aero working for chrome?
probably not, I use firefox though and it kind of works.
@@sinkzscs I got mine working - I had to change the way the userchrome css handles transparency. They introduced a bug on one of the last versions to officially support 7 but didn't bother fixing it.
0xc0000005 error still. Should i reinstall it if worse case scenario
Make sure your Windows 7 is all the way up to date. Reinstalling would help as well since it’s possible some modification to the OS is interfering
@@laglife it is all the way up to date, but it is not working for me
Is it still not working after 6 months?
do i need to fully update the vm for this to work?
???
No, but if you’re gonna update you may as well just go all the way
Great
Does this mean you could run Steam on Windows 7?
Steam already supposedly works, Valve updated the CEF recently to 109 from 85, and 109 is the latest supported version on 7/8/8.1
Is the Windows 7 extended kernel compatible with Windows 8?
No
@@laglife why?
@@laglife YOU ARE CRAZY?
@@BrunoLeiva873 It just doesn't... I don't know why, the installer crashes when installing on 8.1 and I'd assume it does the same on 8.0
@@laglife You can run Vxkex in Compatibility mode for Windows 7
ngl that tab buttons look sus
Don't worry windows 7 still supported on opera and ms edge browser👍
No they're not
Well i think i dont need to worry about my pc not having the windows 11 system requirements...
Try last steam
wow, i need to downgrade on my 2nd laptop and try this. still have a dual boot with win on my old machine. new one is ubuntu only
Would ms store work
No, the Microsoft Store wouldn't work because it requires Windows 8 or later, and the video demonstrates using the extended kernel on Windows 7 to run modern apps, not the Microsoft Store itself. And also you need APPX package of Microsoft Store to install on Windows 8, 10 or 11, Windows 7 doesn't support APPX.
Can this kernel run Steam? Or is there still time? THX!
i only can say just try by self, but should work
@@karakami I'm downloading W7 PoSReady, I'll try it.
Steam is currently working on Windows 7 without kernel
@@AzeriGigachad But not new versions of Steam
@@loolkkekr Steam client beta still gets update
might use this method for firefox (sorry chrome, but i do no longer wanna use you, been using you for many years)
is it safe to do it on a real computer?
That's what I was asking? Did u install it on ur computer if yes pls reply .
epic
im going to try this out im going to edit this if this works/not works and let you know if this steel works i hope it does I HATE MICROSOFT they forced my mom to update to windows 11 and it was super slow on windows 10 now it cant runs games on windows 11 bc of how much cpu the spywere is takeing edit i got it working AND WOW ITS NO JOKE IT DOES WHAT IT SAYS microsoft should give the devs of this app windows 7 lol
um i just forgot but can this app get you ban on war thunder due to easy anticheat ending windows 7 support soon
woudl be cool if it works on Vista
Theres one for vista already
but supports up to Windows 7 apps while this could do 10
It is like a Vista.
One Core A.P.I. wannabe much???????? Great ❤
Ubisoft connect still not work on win7 even with vxkex
Try fortnite
Many apps will have to rely on it. Batteye, EAC, Epic Games Store, and ofc Fortnite, so it will be really hard to get it fully supported. Probably a third-party launcher like Rift can work, where you can play Chapter 1/2/3 if you had the game version files.
@@WantBadtimethe kernel won’t trick it?
@@MicahDaRhuler Idk, I have not tried it.
Tried it and it doesn't work shit!
Now I know why windows 8.1 was a trash
If installing Fortnite on Windows 7 is possible, I might just downgrade hahah
hell yeah i can finally downgrade my old ass pc
İnstall Microsoft store
For what?
Thats not possible.....
unfortunately, the apps is still designed to work for windows 10, so we can see some windows 10 styled title bar on firefox and chrome, no more aero
At least it works.
Imagine running modern software on an obsolete operating system with outdated security updates
And what's the point of that??? We already have vista and xp that can also run the latest browser, even without installing the extended kernel, you can run supermium (at the same time they are much faster than 7). 7 consumes the same amount of resources as 10. I'm not even talking about the fact that 7 is just a copy of vista (from 6.0 and 6.1, and in fact 0 was changed to 1, all the beauty was cut, without improving performance, and then they called it "faster" and "better" vista). There was practically no work there, because there is already a project for vista. Can you explain to me WHY THIS IS NECESSARY??? Does it make sense to work on something that is based on a "good word", and much worse than its predecessors? I speak as someone who has compared them all. Yes, that's right, more popularity and views, from weak minds who don't understand anything.
Did you come here to complain? If yes then delete your comment and if no answer me the question
And stop testing only browsers! I am more than sure that there will be a lot of errors and shortcomings that will reduce performance. And the author did not say one detail: You will install this at your own risk and apart from a couple of browsers, there probably won't be anything running normally (judging by the video, and looking at kernelex, one core api and extended kernel itself for vista). Until you believe the compatibility of a large number of programs, do not even think about installing it on your PC, and before that put it on the second partition of the disk, in case of incompatibility with the device.
@@gameXplorer089 No, I came to say 3 things: 1. There are better alternatives, and there is almost no difference from 10. 2. I have already said that normal, stable operation is not guaranteed, and the author did NOT SAY this (I am not even talking about the fact that this kernel was released relatively recently and it is simply impossible to install this main OS). 3. It was created SOLELY for informational and demonstration purposes.
@@gameXplorer089 I do not know what you are trying to achieve, but such actions will bring your nerves and mood (perhaps even money) to the grave... Your right to establish this, I was just talking about the possible consequences.
@@mirosok9895 It was just an experiment, no need to make such a fuss. No offense.