How to Run Latest Vegas Pro 22 in Windows 7 X64

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The eternal quest to keep legacy software alive: a developer shares a hack to run Vegas Pro 22 on Windows 7 x64, sparking a lively debate about the merits and risks of such a feat. While some commenters poke fun at the "dirty hack" involved, others chime in with their own nostalgia for tweaking software and share recommendations for alternative tools. However, not everyone is convinced, with some warning that running outdated Windows versions poses significant security risks, especially on internet-facing computers. The discussion highlights the tension between preserving functionality and prioritizing security.

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spacedrone808Author

4 months ago

1 reply

Quick dirty hack

alwa

4 months ago

Dirty, sure; but quick? I counted three reboots, patching tools, and several trips to random Internet DLL watering holes in there…

Made me nostalgic for the era of my life that involved tactics like “blindly fish around black-backgrounded webpages for sketchy patches from authors with names like -=TeAm MeGACOyoTE=-”

I went in expecting it to be quick (and to be like, just use DaVinci, dude), but I was pleasantly surprised by a flavor closer to “the madness of art”

jdalgetty

4 months ago

2 replies

love the site design

dddw

4 months ago

1 reply

The copy sound is amazing

spacedrone808Author

4 months ago

Sounds from: UFO X-COM, Fallout 2, Starcraft 1.

spacedrone808Author

4 months ago

If you care - i've refreshed at a bit to look even more modern.

haunter

4 months ago

1 reply

In a similar vein I wish Aperture was still usable on MacOS Sequoia

CharlesW

4 months ago

I can heartily recommend Nitro¹, which is Aperture's spiritual descendant. I very happily replaced Lightroom with Nitro a couple years ago. Gentlemen Coders is Nik Bhatt, who led the Aperture, iPhoto, RAW Camera and Core Image engineering teams, as well as the imaging team for the Mac version of Photos.

¹ https://www.gentlemencoders.com/nitro-for-macos/

_mlbt

4 months ago

2 replies

This is a bad idea on an internet facing computer.

Windows 7 has numerous unpatched vulnerabilities and Vegas Pro runs just fine on supported versions of Windows…

https://app.opencve.io/cve/?product=windows_7&vendor=microso...

adithyassekhar

4 months ago

1 reply

Won't someone think of the Internet children? If someone is willing to do this they know how to look after themselves.

mappu

4 months ago

2 replies

Or they might not - this is two blog posts back: https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/post/a-couple-of-days-ago...

donkeybeer

4 months ago

1 reply

Is it hosted on a win 7 box?

spacedrone808Author

4 months ago

Real s/w, real h/w. Site is hosted @ Codeberg.

adithyassekhar

4 months ago

He was still technically competent to take care of it though :)

spacedrone808Author

4 months ago

SMB, Backup and loads of other bloat are disabled in ages.

platevoltage

4 months ago

5 replies

Do Windows users hate modern Windows this much?

brink

4 months ago

2 replies

My computer freezes for 2-3 seconds when I try to open the volume panel and there are ads everywhere on Win 11. It's like Microsoft wants to wipe every good memory I've ever had with past Windows experiences and just accept the present.

platevoltage

4 months ago

1 reply

If MacOS ever ended up like that, I'd be on desktop linux tomorrow despite the inconvenience.

bigyabai

4 months ago

1 reply

I am remiss to inform you that Big Sur and-onward feels less snappy than GNOME, and has nearly as many advertisements as Windows 11. It wasn't what I wanted either, I bailed after Mojave.

platevoltage

4 months ago

I mean, I’m not going to doubt you on the snappiness as I only use Gnome on older machines, but ads? Where are the ads?

blackoil

4 months ago

> My computer freezes for 2-3 seconds when I try to open the volume panel

You have driver issues. Improving on this problem will require further locking the OS which you may not want.

adithyassekhar

4 months ago

1 reply

The cure is called windows 10 ltsc iot, don't care about piracy.

com2kid

4 months ago

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Across 2 machines my start menu only opens up every other time I press the start key on my keyboard.

Known bug in windows 10 for ~ 6 years, eventually fixed in windows 11.

So anyways I used to work at MSFT, I've even stepped through the Windows Kernel source on occasion (great code base) but I'm now running Linux on my home PC because the customer obsessed company I dreamed of working for one day (and ended up working at for almost a decade) is long gone.

adithyassekhar

4 months ago

Does your work involves using teams or ms office or docker? I personally liked fedora, but teams pwa has a lot of missing features regularly use. Office 365 can be a replacement. Docker was a nightmare to setup especially coming to root user permissions.

ndiddy

4 months ago

Yeah Microsoft stopped fixing all non-security bugs in Windows 10 after 11 came out. Of course they also find it vitally important to use Windows Update to install ads pushing their new and exciting AI services.

pjmlp

4 months ago

1 reply

No, we see many of Windows 11 nuisances as something to put up with, if we want to the freedom to drive to the local PC store to have any problem sorted out, while having aquariums (which I personally hate), to compete with game consoles in capabilities.

Some of us appreciate the NeXTSTEP heritage on macOS but don't want to put up with prices, or soldered components, killing any kind of expansion.

Also many of us do have decades experience with Linux, but decided to save the time spent with Linux tinkering during our youth, by using local VMs or cloud instances.

platevoltage

4 months ago

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I mean, I was a Hackintosher 10 years. It was nice to be able to stuff $2000 worth of components into a case that I found in a dumpster, but these days I deal with The “apple tax” to not have to put up with my OS treating me like a walking microtransaction.

I will agree that the ram/ssd factory upgrades are horrendously priced. Other than that, I don’t see their pricing as unfair at all.

pjmlp

4 months ago

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Depends on where one in the world lives, by the way I was never found of hackintosches rather the standard expansion from LC and Quadras, that aren't a market Apple cares about any longer.

platevoltage

4 months ago

It got really awesome towards the inevitable end. If you had the right hardware, Opencore would give you a rock solid system, aside from some quirks with some apple services.

hulitu

4 months ago

Even more. Using it is an exercise in masochism. Microsoft was so close of having a usable UI but they shit on all work done and started from scratch.

the4anoni

4 months ago

Yes.

debrisapron

4 months ago

For a long time Vegas was my only reason for keeping a PC. I still miss it. Da Vinci is fine, but it's still optimized for professional video editors, which means lots of weird concepts & things which should be easy are hard if you don't understand the history. Vegas' heritage is audio, so it's very fluid for taking a "compositional" approach to video, which makes it great for making music videos.

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