[Qgis-user] Missing python plugin support on Win7

[Patrick Dunford]

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.

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.

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.

On 26/11/22 11:29, Antonio Valanzano via Qgis-user wrote:
> I have reinstalled the sw version3.22.13-Białowieża using the Express 
> Install
> 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
> and that misspelled name caused the problem of the missing python 
> plugin support.
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> So I deleted the .w7 extension and now everything is working fine.
> I hope this information could be useful to some other Win7 users.
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> I don't understand the reason for this misspelling during the 
> installation process and only Jurgen can give an answer.
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> As *Jonathan Moules* wrote in a previous thread  "QGIS on Windows 7" 
> ".. Something like 10% of all Windows users are Windows 7 after all -.."
> 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.
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> Antonio Valanzano
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