How many days to the end of Windows suport?

[Geek-9pm]

I am just now stararitng to get the feel of Windows 7. I am using the64 bit version.
If it ends on hte morning of January 4, 2020, how many days is that from now?
Is there a ready made progrm taht will tell yu how much time yuo have left to a future date?
Just asking.  Ignore athis is your don't care.   

[Salmon Trout]

Visual Basic Script one-liner

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wscript.echo "Windows 7 support ends in " & DateDiff("d", Date, "04-Jan-2020") & " days"
Output:

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C:\>cscript days_to_go.vbs
Windows 7 support ends in 910 days

[DaveLembke]

Cool 1 line script to handle this. 

With lots of commercial applications going to Windows 10 somewhat smoothly and most skipping over Windows 8 & 8.1, I think the transition from 7 to 10 wont be as hard as when businesses went from XP to 7 and there was a need for XP support beyond its cut off date.

I've played with 10 and have it on a new laptop and took advantage of the free upgrade too on one of my boxes. Still holding out not running 10 and still on Windows 7 myself although trying to get myself more involved in Linux use and knowledge of whats available as replacement to Windows based apps.

Last night I was messing around with Linux Mint 18.1 KDE 32-bit (i386) build for example trying out free Linux applications that do the same thing as applications I have for Windows as well as using WINE with some that there is no Linux replacement that has all features I want etc, and was surprised that on the system running this it was only using 420MB of RAM of the 2GB available on a AMD Athlon 64 4450B 2.3Ghz overclocked to 2.53Ghz. Performing the same operation on my Windows 7 64-bit system with 4GB RAM consumes about 1.5GB RAM with Windows 7 wanting to idle at around 1GB in use.

I'd like to make the transition to Linux only, but games will pretty much have me sticking with Windows. But for some reason I like Linux Mint better than Windows 8+ 

The good thing is that Windows 7 will continue to run just like all prior Windows versions beyond the end of support date, so I'm not that worried about it. Worst comes worst I play games on an outdated OS of Windows and do my secure computing on Linux in which I trust Linux more than Windows security anyways so. 

[Geek-9pm]

Thansk for the one-line script.
But I have a problem.
It does not work out of the box. Is some assembly required? Batteries?
Screenshot attaced. (GIf for clear text.)
This was done inside windows 7 pro 64 bit.


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[Salmon Trout]

It looks like you just pasted it into a console window. You have to save it as a script with the extension .vbs for example Windows7endsupport.vbs. Then you can call it like this

either

cscript Windows7endsupport.vbs

or

wscript Windows7endsupport.vbs

Try them both!

[Geek-9pm]

It works. Found and easy way. Just click on the file VBS file from inside windows explorer. Thanks. 

[patio]

Geek i know you have limits...but you woulda done the math yourself years ago...

[Geek-9pm]

Geek i know you have limits...but you woulda done the math yourself years ago...

It took less time asking  Salmon Trout!
And he gave us a nice little on0-line script! O tjomlI will putthis in the scheduled tasks and at least once a day it should pop-up and remind me taht Windows 7 is going out.