How to disable the ' Win 7' warning on Edge?

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Not only have microsoft discontinued the updates on Edge for Win 7 (BTW
I couldn't give a fig) there is now a warning every time I start the
Edge browser.

Is there a way I can disable this annoying message for good - not just
for the session? (The Message says something like "Microsoft Edge no
longer supports Win 7. Please update to the next version of Windows."

Thanks for any pointers.

[Paul]

Post by occam
Not only have microsoft discontinued the updates on Edge for Win 7 (BTW
I couldn't give a fig) there is now a warning every time I start the
Edge browser.
Is there a way I can disable this annoying message for good - not just
for the session? (The Message says something like "Microsoft Edge no
longer supports Win 7. Please update to the next version of Windows."
Thanks for any pointers.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/removing-the-ms-edge-message-in-windows-7/6540d4d8-9e76-4377-8c5c-5f3f84a17d34

If you want to remove the warning banner for all Windows users:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft
SuppressUnsupportedOSWarning DWORD32 1

If you want to remove the warning banner for only current user:

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft
SuppressUnsupportedOSWarning DWORD32 1

To do the same for Google Chrome

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome
SuppressUnsupportedOSWarning DWORD32 1

( https://www.askvg.com/disable-or-remove-unsupported-os-warning-in-chrome-and-edge-on-windows-7-and-8-1/ )

Paul

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Post by Paul

Post by occam
Not only have microsoft discontinued the updates on Edge for Win 7 (BTW
I couldn't give a fig) there is now a warning every time I start the
Edge browser.
Is there a way I can disable this annoying message for good - not just
for the session? (The Message says something like "Microsoft Edge no
longer supports Win 7. Please update to the next version of Windows."
Thanks for any pointers.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/removing-the-ms-edge-message-in-windows-7/6540d4d8-9e76-4377-8c5c-5f3f84a17d34
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft
SuppressUnsupportedOSWarning DWORD32 1
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft
SuppressUnsupportedOSWarning DWORD32 1
To do the same for Google Chrome
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome
SuppressUnsupportedOSWarning DWORD32 1
( https://www.askvg.com/disable-or-remove-unsupported-os-warning-in-chrome-and-edge-on-windows-7-and-8-1/ )
Paul

Hmm, not too keen on fiddling with the registry values. I may have a go
at it if I pluck up enough courage.

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Post by occam

Post by Paul

Post by occam
Not only have microsoft discontinued the updates on Edge for Win 7 (BTW
I couldn't give a fig) there is now a warning every time I start the
Edge browser.
Is there a way I can disable this annoying message for good - not just
for the session? (The Message says something like "Microsoft Edge no
longer supports Win 7. Please update to the next version of Windows."

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Post by occam

Post by Paul
( https://www.askvg.com/disable-or-remove-unsupported-os-warning-in-chrome-and-edge-on-windows-7-and-8-1/ )
Paul

Hmm, not too keen on fiddling with the registry values. I may have a go
at it if I pluck up enough courage.

That is a great find Paul, and thank you for that!

For the less experienced user, the link above also has a downloadable
.reg file that does the work for you. I downloaded it and took a look
and it is OK. Also contains the restore banner .reg file if you want to
go back to looking at it. I can email it to the Win 7 users I know would
love to have those annoying banners disappear.

[JJ]

Post by sticks

Post by occam

Post by Paul

Post by occam
Not only have microsoft discontinued the updates on Edge for Win 7 (BTW
I couldn't give a fig) there is now a warning every time I start the
Edge browser.
Is there a way I can disable this annoying message for good - not just
for the session? (The Message says something like "Microsoft Edge no
longer supports Win 7. Please update to the next version of Windows."

---snip---

Post by occam

Post by Paul
( https://www.askvg.com/disable-or-remove-unsupported-os-warning-in-chrome-and-edge-on-windows-7-and-8-1/ )
Paul

Hmm, not too keen on fiddling with the registry values. I may have a go
at it if I pluck up enough courage.

That is a great find Paul, and thank you for that!
For the less experienced user, the link above also has a downloadable
..reg file that does the work for you. I downloaded it and took a look
and it is OK. Also contains the restore banner .reg file if you want to
go back to looking at it. I can email it to the Win 7 users I know would
love to have those annoying banners disappear.

Use the group policy template file to edit the setting via Group Policy.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/business/download?form=MA13FJ

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Post by sticks

Post by occam

Post by occam
Not only have microsoft discontinued the updates on Edge for Win 7 (BTW
I couldn't give a fig) there is now a warning every time I start the
Edge browser.
Is there a way I can disable this annoying message for good - not just
for the session? (The Message says something like "Microsoft Edge no
longer supports Win 7. Please update to the next version of Windows."

---snip---

Post by occam

      ( 
https://www.askvg.com/disable-or-remove-unsupported-os-warning-in-chrome-and-edge-on-windows-7-and-8-1/  )
   Paul

Hmm, not too keen on fiddling with the registry values. I may have a go
at it if I pluck up enough courage.

That is a great find Paul, and thank you for that!

Yes, thank you to both. I did the registry edit, and the warning is gone
<thumbs up!>

Post by sticks
For the less experienced user, the link above also has a downloadable
.reg file that does the work for you.  I downloaded it and took a look
and it is OK.  Also contains the restore banner .reg file if you want to
go back to looking at it. I can email it to the Win 7 users I know would
love to have those annoying banners disappear.

[Michael Trew]

Post by occam
Not only have microsoft discontinued the updates on Edge for Win 7 (BTW
I couldn't give a fig) there is now a warning every time I start the
Edge browser.
Is there a way I can disable this annoying message for good - not just
for the session? (The Message says something like "Microsoft Edge no
longer supports Win 7. Please update to the next version of Windows."
Thanks for any pointers.

This won't be the most helpful response, but I would advise switching to
a better browser. I use Firefox.

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Post by Michael Trew

Post by occam
Not only have microsoft discontinued the updates on Edge for Win 7 (BTW
I couldn't give a fig) there is now a warning every time I start the
Edge browser.
Is there a way I can disable this annoying message for good - not just
for the session? (The Message says something like "Microsoft Edge no
longer supports Win 7. Please update to the next version of Windows."
Thanks for any pointers.

This won't be the most helpful response, but I would advise switching to
a better browser.  I use Firefox.

Several people I know use Chrome, almost nobody uses Edge. Of course,
they are also the kind of people who don't know what a browser is when
you ask them, but that's another story. I will suggest they use
Firefox, but not as strongly as I used to in the Internet Explorer days.

Heck, even my wife uses chrome. I ask her why and evidently it has
something to do with being able to use her google account. I don't have
one, so I'm not sure what the advantages are, but can think of a few as
to why I don't want to be logged into google when browsing.

In the Explorer days, I remember a few sites I could not properly access
using Firefox. Today, I can't recall this happening in a long time.
When I show web pages on my computer to people and explain how you can
customize Firefox in so many ways so they are not full of all the crap
they look at, they like it. Yet, few are willing to put any effort into
changing their ways. I mostly let them suffer on if they aren't willing
to do anything.

[Michael Trew]

Post by Michael Trew
This won't be the most helpful response, but I would advise switching
to a better browser. I use Firefox.

Several people I know use Chrome, almost nobody uses Edge. Of course,
they are also the kind of people who don't know what a browser is when
you ask them, but that's another story. I will suggest they use Firefox,
but not as strongly as I used to in the Internet Explorer days.
Heck, even my wife uses chrome. I ask her why and evidently it has
something to do with being able to use her google account. I don't have
one, so I'm not sure what the advantages are, but can think of a few as
to why I don't want to be logged into google when browsing.
In the Explorer days, I remember a few sites I could not properly access
using Firefox. Today, I can't recall this happening in a long time. When
I show web pages on my computer to people and explain how you can
customize Firefox in so many ways so they are not full of all the crap
they look at, they like it. Yet, few are willing to put any effort into
changing their ways. I mostly let them suffer on if they aren't willing
to do anything.

I won't do anything Google on sheer principal. To be fair, years ago, I
was an IE person. I held onto IE6 until the bitter end... Maybe
2010/2011 or so, when it became very difficult to use on modern sites.

[Paul]

Post by Michael Trew
This won't be the most helpful response, but I would advise switching
to a better browser.  I use Firefox.

Several people I know use Chrome, almost nobody uses Edge. Of course,
they are also the kind of people who don't know what a browser is when
you ask them, but that's another story. I will suggest they use Firefox,
but not as strongly as I used to in the Internet Explorer days.
Heck, even my wife uses chrome. I ask her why and evidently it has
something to do with being able to use her google account. I don't have
one, so I'm not sure what the advantages are, but can think of a few as
to why I don't want to be logged into google when browsing.
In the Explorer days, I remember a few sites I could not properly access
using Firefox. Today, I can't recall this happening in a long time. When
I show web pages on my computer to people and explain how you can
customize Firefox in so many ways so they are not full of all the crap
they look at, they like it. Yet, few are willing to put any effort into
changing their ways. I mostly let them suffer on if they aren't willing
to do anything.

I won't do anything Google on sheer principal.  To be fair, years ago, I was an IE person.  I held onto IE6 until the bitter end...  Maybe 2010/2011 or so, when it became very difficult to use on modern sites.

Whatever you do, don't use IE now, as Microsoft will break
your copy for you. Do a backup, before you open IE.

Paul

[Michael Trew]

Post by Michael Trew
I won't do anything Google on sheer principal. To be fair, years
ago, I was an IE person. I held onto IE6 until the bitter end...
Maybe 2010/2011 or so, when it became very difficult to use on
modern sites.

Whatever you do, don't use IE now, as Microsoft will break your copy
for you. Do a backup, before you open IE.
Paul

What do you mean by that? Does this apply to IE 11 on Win 7?

[Paul]

I won't do anything Google on sheer principal.  To be fair, years
ago, I was an IE person.  I held onto IE6 until the bitter end...
Maybe 2010/2011 or so, when it became very difficult to use on
modern sites.

Whatever you do, don't use IE now, as Microsoft will break your copy
for you. Do a backup, before you open IE.
Paul

What do you mean by that?  Does this apply to IE 11 on Win 7?

Absolutely.

Watch what happens when you open IE11 on Win7. Poof. Ssssss. Smoke.

Now, open IE11 again. What do you see ? Now, it's broken as soon
as you open it, and no attack from Microsoft is necessary, the
second time.

This could be implemented by "picking up a certain home page".
That might be how they broke mine. It could be, the home page
loaded an ActiveX item.

Just be careful, OK ?

I'm not going to spend time, working out how the attack works.
But I can tell you to do a backup first :-)

Paul

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Post by Michael Trew

Post by occam
Not only have microsoft discontinued the updates on Edge for Win 7 (BTW
I couldn't give a fig) there is now a warning every time I start the
Edge browser.
Is there a way I can disable this annoying message for good - not just
for the session? (The Message says something like "Microsoft Edge no
longer supports Win 7. Please update to the next version of Windows."
Thanks for any pointers.

This won't be the most helpful response, but I would advise switching to
a better browser.  I use Firefox.

As do I, as my primary browser. Edge is a fall-back. If you manage to
make the 'DeepL translator' addon work in Firefox as it does in Edge,
please let me know.

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Post by occam

Post by Michael Trew

Post by occam
Not only have microsoft discontinued the updates on Edge for Win 7 (BTW
I couldn't give a fig) there is now a warning every time I start the
Edge browser.
Is there a way I can disable this annoying message for good - not just
for the session? (The Message says something like "Microsoft Edge no
longer supports Win 7. Please update to the next version of Windows."
Thanks for any pointers.

This won't be the most helpful response, but I would advise switching to
a better browser.  I use Firefox.

As do I, as my primary browser. Edge is a fall-back. If you manage to
make the 'DeepL translator' addon work in Firefox as it does in Edge,
please let me know.

Perhaps you should do a new download and reinstall.
I'm using Firefox v. 117.0.1 64 bit
I highlight what I want translated and hit control+C+C and it pops up
and translates perfectly. Also works in Betterbird (version 102.15.0.
64 bit) just fine

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Post by sticks

Post by occam

Post by Michael Trew

Post by occam
Not only have microsoft discontinued the updates on Edge for Win 7 (BTW
I couldn't give a fig) there is now a warning every time I start the
Edge browser.
Is there a way I can disable this annoying message for good - not just
for the session? (The Message says something like "Microsoft Edge no
longer supports Win 7. Please update to the next version of Windows."
Thanks for any pointers.

This won't be the most helpful response, but I would advise switching to
a better browser.  I use Firefox.

As do I, as my primary browser. Edge is a fall-back. If you manage to
make the 'DeepL translator' addon work in Firefox as it does in Edge,
please let me know.

Perhaps you should do a new download and reinstall.
I'm using Firefox v. 117.0.1 64 bit
I highlight what I want translated and hit control+C+C and it pops up
and translates perfectly.  Also works in Betterbird (version 102.15.0.
64 bit) just fine

I seemed to have forgotten where I'm at. This is a Windows 7 discussion
and the machine I use is Windows 10. Still might want to do a reinstall
to let it reintegrate, but I don't have a 7 machine here to check it out
on at the moment. Sorry for the confusion.

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Post by sticks

Post by occam

Post by Michael Trew

Post by occam
Not only have microsoft discontinued the updates on Edge for Win 7 (BTW
I couldn't give a fig) there is now a warning every time I start the
Edge browser.
Is there a way I can disable this annoying message for good - not just
for the session? (The Message says something like "Microsoft Edge no
longer supports Win 7. Please update to the next version of Windows."
Thanks for any pointers.

This won't be the most helpful response, but I would advise
switching to
a better browser.  I use Firefox.

As do I, as my primary browser. Edge is a fall-back. If you manage to
make the 'DeepL translator' addon work in Firefox as it does in Edge,
please let me know.

Perhaps you should do a new download and reinstall.
I'm using Firefox v. 117.0.1 64 bit
I highlight what I want translated and hit control+C+C and it pops up
and translates perfectly.  Also works in Betterbird (version 102.15.0.
64 bit) just fine

I seemed to have forgotten where I'm at.  This is a Windows 7 discussion
and the machine I use is Windows 10.  Still might want to do a reinstall
to let it reintegrate, but I don't have a 7 machine here to check it out
on at the moment.  Sorry for the confusion.

Yes, with Win 7 I'm now stuck on FF v115.2.1 ESR. I'll retry anyway.
Thanks.

[Mark Lloyd]

On 9/17/23 10:34, Michael Trew wrote:

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Post by Michael Trew
This won't be the most helpful response, but I would advise switching to
a better browser.  I use Firefox.

I prefer Firefox too. Also, it's still being updated (ESR version on Win 7).
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[Michael Trew]

Post by Mark Lloyd
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Post by Michael Trew
This won't be the most helpful response, but I would advise switching
to a better browser. I use Firefox.

I prefer Firefox too. Also, it's still being updated (ESR version on Win 7).

For now, yes.

I'm still holding onto 78.15 ESR on Win 7. Seems to work fine. I am
change-resistant, though.

[Mark Lloyd]

Post by Michael Trew

Post by Mark Lloyd
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Post by Michael Trew
This won't be the most helpful response, but I would advise switching
to a better browser.  I use Firefox.

I prefer Firefox too. Also, it's still being updated (ESR version on Win 7).

For now, yes.
I'm still holding onto 78.15 ESR on Win 7.  Seems to work fine.  I am
change-resistant, though.

If you're happy with that version, there's no need to upgrade. The part
about FF still being updated is for those who have to have the latest
version.