I'm working on adding legacy builds of our officially-released apps that have dropped support for Windows XP, Vista, or 7 to the base app homepages. The goal is to make them easier to find for folks on legacy systems. I'm listing out completed packages and packages that are being researched and built below. The packages are designed to install alongside your main app installs and won't be updated to the latest version - breaking compatibility with your legacy OS - by the PA.c Platform. We don't need copies of any of the apps listed, thanks.
If you know of an app that needs to be added, please make a comment with the app and last working version or first non-working version if you know them. Or a close enough version but please indicate this. There's a thread on PFC that may have some info to assist us, too. We have access to old versions we've packaged and don't need help finding downloads unless indicated.
I've added fallback support for Windows XP and Vista to our download mirror setup for all apps we host. The platform will also detect if an unofficial TLS 1.2 patch has been applied and use it. I put together a Root Certificate Updates For Legacy Windows (Vista, XP, 2000) package and instructions on Github to allow legacy users to update to current certificates and support for Let's Encrypt. I also put together an instruction set and reg update to Enable TLS 1.1/1.2 on Windows Vista. Additionally, there is LegacyUpdate.net which reverse engineers the old Windows Update system for legacy Windows allowing you to install all available updates as well as server updates in addition to updating certificates. Neither PortableApps.com nor I are affiliated with this or can speak to its security but it seems to work well in my testing.
I'll remove comments as they are added to this list. And I may eventually build a suite of apps for these older versions of Windows depending on time and interest. Thanks for your help!
Windows Legacy Versions Available On Site And PA.c Platform App Store
- Atomic Tanks Portable 6.2 (XP)
- Audacity Portable 2.2.2 (XP), 3.0.5 (Vista)
- AquaSnap Portable 1.18.2 (XP/Vista)
- AutoDrum 4.3 (XP/Vista and 7/8/10 32-bit)
- Avidemux Portable 2.6.8 (XP)
- balenaEtcher Portable 1.7.9 (7), 1.8.11 (10 32-bit + 8/8.1)
- Battle for Wesnoth 1.14.16 (XP/Vista), 1.14.17 (7/8/10 32-bit)
- BleachBit 2.2 (XP)
- Blender 2.76b (XP), 2.92.0 (7 x64)
- BOINC 7.14.2 (x86)
- BYOND 5.0b515.1643 (7/8), 5.0b514.1589 (XP/Vista)
- Caesium 1.7.0 (XP/Vista/7/8 + 10 32-bit)
- Capture2Text 3.9 (XP/Vista)
- Cherrytree 1.2.0 (7 64-bit), 0.39.4 (XP/Vista, 32-bit)
- ConvertAll 0.6.1 (XP), 0.7.3 (Vista)
- CopyQ 7.1.0 (7/8 64-bit)
- Cppcheck 1.69 (XP), 1.83 (Vista), 1.89 (32-bit)
- darktable 4.4.2 (7/8.0)
- DB Browser for SQLite Portable 3.11.2 (XP)
- Draw.io 21.1.2 (7/8)
- Explorer++ 1.3.5 (XP/Vista)
- FastCopy 5.7.5 (XP)
- FileZilla Client Portable 3.9.0.1 (XP)
- Firefox, Portable Edition 52.9.0 (XP/Vista), 115.x (7/8/8.1)
- FocusWriter 1.6.16 (7/8/8.1 + 10 32-bit)
- Freeciv 3.0.9 (7/8/10 32-bit), 2.6.11 (XP/Vista)
- Geany 1.37.1 (7/8/10 32-bit and Vista)
- GIMP 2.8.22 (XP/Vista)
- GnuCash 2.6.21 (XP/Vista)
- Google Chrome 109.0.5414.120 (7/8), 49.0.2623.112 (XP/Vista)
- Google Chrome 64-bit 109.0.5414.120 (7/8)
- gPodder 3.9.2 (XP)
- Gramps 5.1.6 (7 64-bit), 5.1.5 (7/8/10 32-bit), 3.4.9 (XP/Vista)
- gVim 9.0 (XP)
- Hedgewars 0.9.23 (XP)
- HexChat 2.9.4 (XP), 2.14.1 (Vista)
- Inkscape 0.92.3 (XP/Vista)
- Iron 109.0.5550.0 (7/8)
- KchmViewer 7.5 (XP)
- Krita 4.4.3 (32-bit), 5.0.6 (7/8)
- KVIrc 5.2.0 (7/8 and 10 32-bit)
- LibreCAD 2.1.3 (XP/Vista)
- LibreOffice Portable 5.4 (XP/Vista)
- Listary 3.51.858 (XP/Vista)
- Lossless Cut 3.50 (7/8)
- Lucas Chess 11.17 (XP)
- Marble 1.9.0 (XP/Vista)
- MediaInfo 21.03 (XP)
- Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) 1.4.6 (XP), 1.6.6 (Vista)
- Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) 1.7.13 (XP)
- Mixxx 2.2.4 (7/8/10 32-bit)
- MKVToolNix 68.0 (7)
- Mnemosyne 2.6.1 (7/8 + 10 32-bit), 2.3.3 (XP/Vista)
- Mumble 1.4.287 (7/8.0 + 8.1/10 32-bit)<?li?>
- MuseScore 3.6.2 (Win 7/8, 10 32-bit)
- MusicBrainz Picard 1.4.2 (32-bit + XP/Vista)
- Notepad++ 8.4.6 (Vista), 7.9.2 (XP)
- NVDA 2023.4.4 (7/8.0), 2017.3 (XP/Vista)
- OBS Studio 27.2.4 (7/8 + 10 32-bit)
- OpenMPT Retro Build (XP/Vista)
- OpenTTD 1.10.3 (XP), 12.2 (Vista)
- Opera 95.0.4635.84 (7/8)
- Paint.NET 4.3.12 (Win 7/8 and 10 32-bit)
- Password Safe 3.38.2 (XP)
- Pencil Project 3.1.0 (7/8/10 32-bit), 2.0.5 (XP/Vista)
- Process Explorer 16.22 (XP), 16.32 (Vista)
- qBittorrent 4.4.5 (7/8/10 32-bit), 4.5.5 (7/8 64-bit), 4.1.9.1 (XP/Vista)
- qBittorrent Enhanced 4.6.7.10 (7/8 + 10 32-bit)
- QOwnNotes 20.7.4.5852 (7/8/10 32-bit)
- RawTherapee 5.0rc1 (XP/Vista + 7/8/10 32-bit)
- RedNotebook 2.26 (7/8 32&64-bit or 8.1/10 32-bit)
- Rufus 3.22 (7)
- Scribus 1.4.8 (XP/Vista/8.0)
- SeaMonkey 2.49.5 (XP/Vista)
- Shotcut 22.12.21 Rev 2 (7/8 64-bit), 20.09.23 Rev 2 (Vista - 10 32-bit), 15.04.01 (XP)
- Sigil Portable 0.7.4 (XP/Vista), 1.9.30 (7/8 + 10 32-bit)
- SpyBot Search and Destroy 2.6 (Vista), 2.4 (XP)
- Stellarium 0.13.3 (XP)
- Sumatra PDF 3.1.2 (XP)
- SWI-Prolog 7.4.2 (XP)
- Telegram 1.8.15 (XP)
- The Legend of Edgar 1.36-1 (7/8/10 32-bit), 1.30-1 (XP/Vista)
- Thunderbird 52.9.1 (XP/Vista)
- TreeSize Free 4.4.2 (32-bit and Vista/7/8)
- Warzone 2100 3.1.2 (XP), 4.2.7 (Vista)
- WinSCP 6.1.2 (XP)
- Wise Disk Cleaner 11.0.7 (XP)
- Wise Duplicate Finder 2.1.3 (XP)
- Wise Registry Cleaner 11.1.2 (XP)
- XnView MP 1.5.5 (32-bit)
- YUMI-exFAT 1.0.2.0 (XP/Vista/7)
- Zint Barcode Studio 2.4.3 (XP), 2.8.0 (Vista)
- Zoom via zmPortable 5.17.13 (7/8)
- ZoomIt 7.1 (7), 5.10 (Vista), 4.2 (XP)
Windows Legacy Versions To Be Built (Including Last Working or First Non-Working)
- PDF Arranger 1.9.2 (Win 7/8)
Upcoming/Possible Windows Legacy Versions
- Electron-based apps updated to version 23 (Chromium 110) require Windows 10/11
PDF Arranger → 1.11.1.
First non-working version on Win 7? https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr/discussions/793
Win 7 x64
“Life is a strategy game, where roles are already distributed”
― Neo Buddha ―
Looks like they moved to incompatible Python with 1.10.0. I'll post a legacy package tomorrow.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Thanks!
EDIT: Your previous version → 1.10.0 looks like working.
“Life is a strategy game, where roles are already distributed”
― Neo Buddha ―
PDF Arranger v1.11.1 works on Win7, with a workaround.
There is a workaround build from Alexandru Naiman on GitHub.
Links:
• GitHub repository api-ms-win-core-path-HACK: https://github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK
• GitHub download page: https://github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK/releases/tag/0.3.1
• GitHub direct download the archivde 'api-ms-win-core-path-blender-0.3.1.zip': https://github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK/releases/downloa...
How to use this workaround:
1. download from GitHub the archive 'api-ms-win-core-path-blender-0.3.1.zip'
2. this zip file contains two subfolders: x64 and x86
3. copy the 'api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll' accorded to Your installed Windows (x86 or x64 bit)
4. the .dll must placed inside 'C:\PortableApps\PDFArrangerPortable\App\PDFArranger' near the main program 'pdfarranger.exe'
5. done
b.t.w.
more details are in this post: https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=108030#p108030
Yesterday (today at 3:30am), I tried this method but got my file from here → https://www.dll-files.com/
I got another message which means that I'm using the wrong file (0xc000007b thingy). Was tired, hurting eyes, so I gave up!
“Life is a strategy game, where roles are already distributed”
― Neo Buddha ―
Hi,
I have upload a PAF version of PDF Arranger 1.11.1 for Win7 on:
• Upload.ee: https://www.upload.ee/files/18021942/PDFArrangerPortable_1.11.1_Win7.paf...
• MediaFire.com: https://www.mediafire.com/file/rowxzoch2ej5aje/PDFArrangerPortable_1.11....
Note:
this version is ONLY for Windows 7 -> 64 bit
If You will a working build for Windows 7 --> 32 bit, please use GitHub download link (see my previous post) ad extract the .dll contained inside 'x86' subfolder.
¡Muchas Gracias!
“Life is a strategy game, where roles are already distributed”
― Neo Buddha ―
I created a topic to discuss this: https://portableapps.com/node/78715
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!