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<p>Windows 7 is not a currently supported operating system by
Microsoft. Support by other software vendors, whether they are the
Qgis project itself, or the vendors of external libraries used by
Qgis (of which there are many) is very limited and cannot be
guaranteed long term. Bug fixes are not backported to editions of
the software that have been listed as Windows 7 compatible.<br>
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<p>Whilst users of older operating systems are currently able to
access archived versions of the software packages, the project
file formats change quite regularly and therefore the older
versions will have compatibility issues with projects produced on
more recent versions of the software. The same is to some extent
true of the various component file formats that can be attached
into a project although changes to these are less frequent. But if
a new spatial format is introduced that wasn't around when the
Windows 7 software was developed, it is not going to be backported
since software editions for Windows 7 are not currently being
developed.<br>
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<p>The availability of patches to enable newer versions to run on
older OS can't be guaranteed. It would be unwise to rely on the
long term availability of any type of support for Windows 7. If
the current versions of the software are compiled at 64 bit, they
may not run on a 32 bit Windows 7 installation. Since MS has now
introduced Windows 11, the maximum level of support provided by
many organisations will only extend back to Windows 10.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26/11/22 11:29, Antonio Valanzano
via Qgis-user wrote:<br>
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<div>I have reinstalled the sw version<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> 3.22.13-Białowieża </span>using
the Express Install</div>
<div>and I noticed that in the bin folder the patch for Win 7
was named api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll.w7</div>
<div>and that misspelled name caused the problem of the missing
python plugin support.</div>
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<div>So I deleted the .w7 extension and now everything is
working fine.</div>
<div>I hope this information could be useful to some other Win7
users.</div>
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<div>I don't understand the reason for this misspelling during
the installation process and only Jurgen can give an answer.</div>
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<div>As <b>Jonathan Moules</b> wrote in a previous
thread "<font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">QGIS
on Windows 7" "</span></font>.. Something like 10% of all
Windows users are Windows 7 after all -.."</div>
<div>it is also my opinion that the possibility of using the
latest versions of QGIS for Win7 users is relevant and thanks
to this patch it is possible.</div>
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<div>Antonio Valanzano</div>
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