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Limit NVDA to running only on at least Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 #7546

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The minimum Operating System NVDA will now run on is Windows 7 SP1 or…
michaelDCurran Aug 31, 2017
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Update the user guide
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Address review action: userGuide formatting
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion source/nvda.pyw
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# Check OS version requirements
import winVersion
if not winVersion.canRunVc2010Builds():
if not winVersion.isSupportedOS():
winUser.MessageBox(0, unicode(ctypes.FormatError(winUser.ERROR_OLD_WIN_VERSION)), None, winUser.MB_ICONERROR)
sys.exit(1)

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18 changes: 5 additions & 13 deletions source/winVersion.py
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winVersionText+=".%d"%winVersion.service_pack_minor
winVersionText+=" %s" % ("workstation","domain controller","server")[winVersion.product_type-1]

def isSupportedOS():
# NVDA can only run on Windows 7 Service pack 1 and above
return (winVersion.major,winVersion.minor,winVersion.service_pack_major) >= (6,1,1)

def canRunVc2010Builds():
if (winVersion.major, winVersion.minor) < (5, 1):
# Earlier than Windows XP.
return False
if winVersion.major == 5:
if winVersion.minor == 1:
# Windows XP for x86.
return winVersion.service_pack_major >= 2
if winVersion.minor == 2 and winVersion.product_type!=1:
# Windows Server 2003.
# (5.2 x64 is Windows XP x64. Its RTM is based on Server 2003 sp1,
# so all versions should be fine.)
return winVersion.service_pack_major >= 1
return True
return isSupportedOS()

UWP_OCR_DATA_PATH = os.path.expandvars(r"$windir\OCR")
def isUwpOcrAvailable():
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8 changes: 3 additions & 5 deletions user_docs/en/userGuide.t2t
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For further details, you can [view the full licence. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html]

+ System Requirements +
- Operating Systems: all 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 (including Server operating Systems)
- For Windows XP 32-bit, NVDA requires Service Pack 2 or higher.
- For Windows Server 2003, NVDA requires Service Pack 1 or higher.
- For Windows Vista, NVDA requires Service Pack 2 and the [KB2763674 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2763674] update.
Both of these should be installed if all available updates are applied via Windows Update.
- Operating Systems: all 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and all Server Operating Systems starting from Windows Server 2008 R2.
- For Windows 7, NVDA requires Service Pack 1 or higher.
- For Windows Server 2008 R2, NVDA requires Service Pack 1 or higher.
- Memory: 256 mb or more of RAM
- Processor speed: 1.0 ghz or above
- About 90 MB of storage space.
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