Driver download

[harrycovert]

I bought a HP desk jet 2700e printer which said on the box that it was compatable with WIN 7 but I can`t download a driver.The HP sites says that they don`t support WIN 7. Any suggestions?

[randlemarcus]

Please stop using an operating system that went "no, really, we mean it this time" End of Life with no security updates in January.

[Funk]

randlemarcus said:

Please stop using an operating system that went "no, really, we mean it this time" End of Life with no security updates in January.

Agreed; the upgrade to Win10 was free as well so not really any excuse for being on an OS so far out of date.

Apparently the 7 > 10 upgrade servers still work: https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-you-can-st...

[Mandat]

I still have win 7 on one of my computers in the office, specifically because the accounting software that I use is not compatible with win 10.

Sometimes there are legitimate reasons why people can't / don't want to upgrade.

[Mandat]

harrycovert said:

I bought a HP desk jet 2700e printer which said on the box that it was compatable with WIN 7 but I can`t download a driver.The HP sites says that they don`t support WIN 7. Any suggestions?

Is this any good?

https://support.hp.com/gb-en/drivers/selfservice/h...

[FourWheelDrift]

A MMX, SSE and SSE2 compatible CPU is required for upgrading beyond Windows 7. So to go to 8, 10 or 11. I had a Dell laptop that came with 7 and it wouldn't upgrade so that got sold.

[Chimune]

Mandat said:

I still have win 7 on one of my computers in the office, specifically because the accounting software that I use is not compatible with win 10.

Sometimes there are legitimate reasons why people can't / don't want to upgrade.

Not wanting to spend money isnt a legitimate reason.

What you appear to have, is your most critical data stored in an unsupported app running on an unsupported pc.

Hope no-ones livelihoods depend on that data being trusted, available and secure.

[Mr Pointy]

Chimune said:

Mandat said:

I still have win 7 on one of my computers in the office, specifically because the accounting software that I use is not compatible with win 10.

Sometimes there are legitimate reasons why people can't / don't want to upgrade.

Not wanting to spend money isnt a legitimate reason.

What you appear to have, is your most critical data stored in an unsupported app running on an unsupported pc.

Hope no-ones livelihoods depend on that data being trusted, available and secure.

Well, there's a post elsewhere on PH today that say much of the Network Rail signalling system relies on Windows NT. Got a view on that?

[Brainpox]

https://support.hp.com/gb-en/drivers/selfservice/h...

There's a Win7 driver listed here

ETA: derp, missed the comment that already posted this

[Chimune]

Mr Pointy said:

Chimune said:

Mandat said:

I still have win 7 on one of my computers in the office, specifically because the accounting software that I use is not compatible with win 10.

Sometimes there are legitimate reasons why people can't / don't want to upgrade.

Not wanting to spend money isnt a legitimate reason.

What you appear to have, is your most critical data stored in an unsupported app running on an unsupported pc.

Hope no-ones livelihoods depend on that data being trusted, available and secure.

Well, there's a post elsewhere on PH today that say much of the Network Rail signalling system relies on Windows NT. Got a view on that?

Well only that I presume the 227 page doc listing the iso standards, controls and documentation used in NR (published on thier web site), is more comprehensive than Mandats risk mitigation strategy.

[harrycovert]

Mandat said:

Is this any good?

https://support.hp.com/gb-en/drivers/selfservice/h...

Thank you Mandat .That did the job

[donkmeister]

Chimune said:

Mandat said:

I still have win 7 on one of my computers in the office, specifically because the accounting software that I use is not compatible with win 10.

Sometimes there are legitimate reasons why people can't / don't want to upgrade.

Not wanting to spend money isnt a legitimate reason.

What you appear to have, is your most critical data stored in an unsupported app running on an unsupported pc.

Hope no-ones livelihoods depend on that data being trusted, available and secure.

Hold on while I just climb up onto my hobby horse...

Right. Using Win7 is quite extreme but often old/unsupported software is used precisely because livelihoods are dependent on it. I've struggled to explain this concept before when friends are demanding to know why a work phone or computer isn't on the latest OS - yes the update has gone through a degree of testing at Apple/Microsoft/Google, but the reason we have software updates is precisely because they fked up at the previous release. They'll have fked up this release too, that's guaranteed.

It's often more effective to mitigate the flaws in old software rather than deploy new software that's been insufficiently tested by people who haven't got a clue, being whipped by people who don't care, to meet a pre-determined deployment date ("better the devil you know than the devil you don't") and zero-day sploits are almost always more of a problem for the most prevalent versions ("security through obscurity"). There's also the danger of deprecated features that are necessary for your needs (for example Windows 10 is what pushed me away from the WHS/WMC environment and into FreeBSD/Plex - hardly business critical but it's a good example of perfectly decent features being removed, necessitating a much more significant change to the overall system. Fine for me, that sort of thing is a hobby).

Linux distros usually have the "stable" version as well as the new version, because for many it's more important to have something that works than to have the latest version number.