Re: Windows Embedded Posready 7 Iso Download
Deandra Schikora
Hi,
just wondering, does sambaPOS works on Windows embedded POS ready 2009, I just try to install sambaPOS, I am getting into a loop .
it showing system need restart to finish the setup, and system restart then again start installation from the beginning.
any tips please?
The last version of SambaPOS that will run on Windows XP (and POSReady 2009) is V3, however you will be missing out on a lot of great new features that have been released since, plus most people on the forum are using V4+ so there will be less community support available to you.
Further to this discussion I am wondering if there is any other solution to the ones offered. I have V5 installed on one register and I want to expand the system and utilize an existing POS with Windows Embedded POS ready 2009. I have no idea how to work around this
POSReady 2009 (XP version) was a lot better for general software compatibility (e.g. user can install MS Office). However I have found POSReady 7 some normal software like MS Office will not install, I never researched further about this but found out from client feedback. I never had any problem with installing software needed for using as a POS. Also, because the system builder is put in control of what windows components are available, end user cannot access windows components from Add/Remove software. This is good for a support angle, but not ideal for end user who is IT proficient. You can get around this but you need to install windows components via command line.
EDIT: Actually I just found this article that says POSReady 2009 still gets updates to April 2019. I was sure that the system I tested before was not getting updates from Windows Update but maybe it was not related to this. Anyway, irrelevant to this original post but still interesting to know.
I don't see any reason why we couldn't search for updates the same way we do for POSready on XP and apply them to windows 7. You can do whatever you want but knowing what I know personally I wouldn't if it were me.
nope I was thinking that, I was only talking about locating the hotfixes from the catalog. Applying them is going to require us to modify the hotfixes with somthing like ORCA or another utility abefore we apply them. Unless my Ultimate key will work on embeded i wont be doing this. I think it doesn't make sense for everyone and moving forward thats what will be important.
- I have tried the XP hack (WPA / PosReady) and it does not work. Keep showing normal updates.
- From the normal Windows 7, I have started to install Windows PosReady 7 giving to setup.exe and it says that another operating system is detected and it will save it as windows.old, therefore, it does not update it, it is like a clean installation always.
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Manually copy the files if the versions already installed are smaller. Those that can not be copied by being in use, would have to restart and use the recovery console or do so from a USB WinPE, USB Linux or USB Wifislax for example.
@wykchari: If you can source a license for Windows 8 (as in the original - I refuse to call it 8.0 because no such thing exists), that could work for you. I was running Windows 8 on a NetBurst based Xeon CPU (basically a hyperthreaded P4), so that should work for you. Then just mosey over to our thread called "Server 2012 Updates on Windows 8". I'd link it for you, but right now, several people are getting a "403 Forbidden" error when they try that. Any way, follow that advice - and now you're good until October 2023.
My concern, though, is that once Jan. 2020 arrives, M$ will change the "ApplicabilityInfo" string for newer updates to just read "Windows 7.0 Embedded;" etc. and they will no longer install on our Windows 7 Client systems without patching.
If that happens someone'll instantly find a patch to some file equivalent to update.exe on XP, to ignore the "ApplicabilityInfo" while installing, and that'll be it... or find a .REG setting to spoof Embedded, just like the POSReady trick. No reason to worry, it'll be all right, you'll see!
I wonder whether MS might not extend Win 7 a bit. Just this month, there were two meltdowns from updates to Win 10. I don't see how businesses (especially mom-and-pop businesses) can trust Win 10 yet. But it will be another year before the world realizes that Win 7 is going away, so maybe the complaining won't start soon enough..
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