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Patch (hack) unblocks Windows Update in Win7 & 8.1
A developer and reverse engineer by the name of “Zeffy” seems to have found a way around Microsoft's ban on updates for old versions of Windows on shiny new Ryzen and Kaby Lake CPUs.
Microsoft flagged its new policy early last year, telling the users that Windows 10 will be the only supported Windows platform on Intel’s upcoming 7th Gen Intel Core (Kaby Lake) based CPUs. The policy effected bady to the business oriented users who had a good reason to run old Windows on new PCs.
Microsoft eventually changed the policy so that people who are running Windows 7 or 8.x will still get security updates until those OSes reach end-of-life, but won't get other fixes. Zeffy, who on his GitHub page describes the policy as just Microsoft's way of telling everyone who'd rather keep using Windows 7 or 8.1 on their Intel Kaby Lake or AMD Ryzen systems and not be eligible for future updates other than security bug fixes. His solution targets the new CPU-detection bits that Windows has added to help Windows Update know when not to ship new code.
His GitHub page explains it all in detail.
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#5422543 Posted on: 04/20/2017 09:18 AM
What ever is written by man shall be broken by man. Hats of to that developer.
What ever is written by man shall be broken by man. Hats of to that developer.
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#5422584 Posted on: 04/20/2017 11:23 AM
Haven't payed for a copy of windows since 98 (except the version on my new laptop) and have never had issues with updates, so this isn't anything new at all.
Haven't payed for a copy of windows since 98 (except the version on my new laptop) and have never had issues with updates, so this isn't anything new at all.
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#5422591 Posted on: 04/20/2017 11:40 AM
That sense of brand loyalty... being dissolved from the rotten core and out.
A world without decent competition is not fun at all once something like this practice starts to rub you the wrong way.
When Vulkan becomes more widespread at least Linux will become a more serious contender for many of us.
That sense of brand loyalty... being dissolved from the rotten core and out.
A world without decent competition is not fun at all once something like this practice starts to rub you the wrong way.
When Vulkan becomes more widespread at least Linux will become a more serious contender for many of us.
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#5422600 Posted on: 04/20/2017 11:56 AM
Fixed that for you.
Good thing somebody took his time to do that, a great service to the community!
IF Vulkan becomes more widespread at least Linux will become a more serious contender for many of us.
Fixed that for you.
Good thing somebody took his time to do that, a great service to the community!
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Just wait until evil-corp will release a patch that will intentionally lock up computers with newer processors, worse if all patches will have this feature...