Obsidian doesnt work after latest update on windows 7

[Tigas]

Steps to reproduce

Opening the damn thing;

Double clicking the obsidian app gives the following message:

“Unable to find the entry point of the DiscardVirtualMemory procedure in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll”

I use windows 7

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide?

N
Cannot use the sandbox vault because the app doesnt even open

Expected result

The app working

Actual result

Obsidian not working

Environment

Cant do it because obsidian doesnt open

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Additional information

No matter what version of obsidian i install the error persists, i used to use an old version of obsidian(i believe 3.5), when i downloaded the latest installer version(as of 25/09) i have become unable to open obsidian, no matter if i desinstall and reinstall a newer version

[rigmarole]

Windows 7 support silently dropped?

Microsoft doesn’t support Windows 7 either so it’s not surprising that Obsidian doesn’t. The last release that works on Windows 7 is presumably the one you upgraded from. You can download old releases from Releases · obsidianmd/obsidian-releases · GitHub . I would have sworn the Electron update was mentioned in the update notes because that’s why I reinstalled instead of just using the in-app update, but you’re right — it’s not in the announcement here. I’m not sure where I saw it. Moved from…

[Tigas]

trying to use the old versions doesnt work, unless theres a way to completely erase obsidian from my computer

[WhiteNoise]

Uninstall it and then install the old version. If it works good, if it doesn’t we are sorry but we dropped supporting win 7 a while ago already.

[rigmarole]

@Tigas

unless theres a way to completely erase obsidian

I don’t know. But yes, maybe you will have to clear some of the app settings from %APPDATA%\Obsidian\ and disable any auto updating, before you reinstall the older version.