Windows 7 end of life.

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Originally Posted by masraum

No, it's on the 'Net and while I don't allow it to download and install the upgrades automatically, I let it ask me to download and install and then do that when I'm ready which is usually pretty quick, but sometimes may not be for 2-3 months after a patch comes out. I've also gone through all of the services that are started automatically, and shut down stuff that I don't need. I've also manually configured the built in firewall often to the level of "let this file access this tcp port, etc...), and I've got MSE running (that does do auto-update).

Used to do that shutting down unused services stuff for Windows 7 and prior versions.

Left the defaults alone in W10 and it just seems to work better.

Originally Posted by masraum

Weird. It actually stopped working? Was it a hardware issue or was it that it tried to install an update that it couldn't support?

No longer supported after 8 years or something like that ...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7676801
Sorry to say, Apple has dropped official support for your model.

Many of the latest features of the OS require current hardware. At some point, Apple has to decide if maintaining code for older computers is worth it. This becomes even more critical when many of the main features will not work due to hardware incompatibility. Looks like ~2009/10 is the oldest models supported under Sierra.