"Paul in Houston TX" wrote

| I have not installed any w7 upgrades in 2-3 years and don't intend to,
| so it makes no difference to me whether support ends or not.
| I'll probably buy w10 around the year 2028 or so and keep it for 20 years.
|

I, also, have only installed SP1, with one exception that
might interest some people:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&gbv=1&ct=clnk

This is an update to allow more advanced encryption. I
needed to deal with it because I was using the winhttp
library in software. It's a commonly used library because
it's by far the easiest way to programmatically get files
online, such as webpages. The other options are basically
to do it with winsock and an encryption library, the hard
way, or to use the IE libraries, which is a hokey way that's
really just an IE wrapper.

Long story short, this is an easy update to install and
will give you the most advanced encryption for software
that uses winhttp. For win7:

Download page:
http://www.catalog.update.microsoft....px?q=kb3140245

Direct links:

Win7-64-bit:

http://www.download.windowsupdate.co...8e52a0dec0.msu

Win7-32-bit:

http://www.download.windowsupdate.co...74a0654f18.msu

Then add these Rgistry entries:


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS
1.1\Client]
"DisabledByDefault"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS
1.1\Server]
"DisabledByDefault"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS
1.2\Client]
"DisabledByDefault"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS
1.2\Server]
"DisabledByDefault"=dword:00000000

I've installed the update myself, for my own software,
and can confirm that it works.