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Classic 7 is Windows 10 LTSC cosplaying as Windows 7

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Uncanny rebuild resurrects the 2009 desktop, complete with support, updates, and licensing questions

For those who miss what Windows looked like in 2009, Classic 7 is a heavily modified version of Windows 10 IoT LTSC, reworked to make it look as much as possible like Windows 7, while still being in support and receiving updates.

This has beenaccomplished thanks to a large compilation of skins, themes, add-ons,tweaks, and so on – some of which are real components from olderversions of Windows, adapted and modified to run on Windows 10.

We were not sure whether to cover Classic 7, because while it is impressive and fun, we are not at all sure it is legitimate to use. But we can see a target audience.

This isn't just a layer of makeup; it's more like a face transplant.It includes some real binaries from Windows 7, and indeed earlierversions, adapted and grafted...

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