I've got several laptops which have physically lasted much longer than I expected. I am long past when I expected to need a new one, but well, here I am. The newer laptops have 'self-updated' to Windows 10 and I've made my peace with that. My oldest laptop, a Toshiba Satellite, I left at Windows 7 because it was a bit older and slower and I didn't think it could survive with the far more sophisticated needs of Windows 10.

I just went out to a coffee shop with internet and got this old thing working quite nicely. I even loaded an anti-virus software onto it and it says its clean. But Microsoft does not support the system anymore. I am not inclined to pay Microsoft for their corporate 'aftercare' support package.


Are any of you still rocking with Windows 7? Any workarounds?

My default workaround if Win7 crashes with no phoenix rising from the ashes would be to install a form of Linux. But for now if it ain't broke I don't wanna fixit!