inf is good as it's the exact same as 15.5.6 besides the version. msi, and I've tried looking to see what causes the issue, the. It works until it tries installing vmx driver, that step instantly fails and the installer rolls back all the progress. msi, which I backed up, and removed the check for Windows 7 using Orca. So that Workstation 11/12 method should work. Mind you, it's quite difficult to trick VMware installers (unless you can get the OS to effectively become NT 6.2, which may cause web browsers to freeze). Probably just people taking W7 EOS too seriously, even though Windows 8 as a client OS had its EOS in 2016. The Whatsapp desktop application says that it needs Windows 8 but runs on 7. Vegas Pro 17 says in its system requirements that it needs Windows 10 but the installer says that it requires Windows 7/8. Is there any non-UWP/DX12 software that really cannot run on W7? The only missing win32 API function that I've seen called is user32!SetCoalescableTimer by the Office 2019 installer and it should be trivial to add.
