Medyo :
So, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7; Microsoft also asked Intel to stop providing Windows 7 drivers for their newer Kaby Lake hardware; Microsoft wants users to stop using Windows 7.
So, can someone please help me not follow what Microsoft wants and do what I want?
I bought a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th Gen laptop and immediately after getting it I downgraded the OS to Windows 7. I would have installed XP on it since my old one still has XP and IT IS THE GREATEST WINDOWS VERSION EVER BUILT, but I'll explore that later.
Anyway, I am set gathering all the 32-bit Windows 7 drivers I need even though Lenovo doesn't provide them, except for the Intel Graphics 620 card. Has anyone successfully installed Intel graphics card drivers for the 7th generation series on a Windows 7 32-bit machine? I found a fix about modifying an .inf file on the drivers to add the hardware ID of my graphics card but that seem to only work for the 64-bit version and not 32-bit.
Welp after a good 17 hrs of work I just figured it out for a Dell Latitude 5580 that has a i5 7200U 7th gen processor running windows 7 32bit. It didn't install the 620 video driver but it installed another type of driver that has the intel graphics settings. I just did this today and did a little testing with hooking up the laptop to a vga projection system *still have to test HDMI*. I tested changing the resolution, brightness of the display with the keyboard, I messed around with the screen saver, screen dimmer, screen turn off power options, things look good.. I would highly suggest if people are going to do this to a number of computers to highly test it out first with a computer to make sure things will work fine, or use someone or someones as a guinea pig, looks fine though, but yea test it out, going to do a lot more testing myself but looks very promising.
How to install an Intel video driver to install on a Windows 7 32bit OS that has a 7th Generation CPU that has Intel HD 620 Video
1. Download the win32_15.45.23.4860.zip win7 32bit video driver from intel.
2. Extract the files to a folder.
3. In the folder you extracted everything to go into the Graphics folder and look for the file igdlh.inf
4. Open that file with notepad.
5. Scroll down a little bit till you find, Windows 7 Install – DT Only
6. Add the line in instruction 7. to the very bottom of all the lines of instructions that are underneath Windows 7 Install – DT Only. These lines that are already there will all look a lot like the line that you are going to add in instruction 7.
7. %IKBLULTGT2% = ISKLD_W7, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_5916
8. Save and exit notepad.
9. Go into the folder you extracted everything into again and execute the igxpin.exe file.
10. If you get a message about windows security install this driver software.
11. Finish the install and then the computer will reboot.
12. If you look in the device manager under display drivers you should see %IKBLULTGT2% and it should be working fine. Pay no mind to the unknown device, that is the 620 video but you are now using a different video driver. Me I disabled the unknown device, I don’t think disabling it effects the display adapter driver you just installed, but I haven’t done a load of testing on that yet. Also haven’t done a ton of testing with the installed video driver itself, but things seems to work well.
*Beware, I put windows 7 32bit on a Dell Latitude E5580 laptop with 7th gen processor and after some hard work got everything working correctly but windows updates will not work, Microsoft gives a message saying your laptop and processor are not supported for your OS you are using thus you won't get Microsoft updates."