Are windows 7 apps compatible with windows 10

dunesickness

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My friend needs to redownload drivers for his motherboard (since his network drivers that control his internet got messed up somehow causing windows 10 to not detect his network drivers)

He doesn't have the disc the motherboard came with that has all the drivers so I'm having him get a thumb drive and he's going to use a different computer to slap CPUZ onto the thumb drive to get his motherboard's model and then we're gonna have him install the drivers onto that usb from the different computer

Problem is, his computer uses windows 10 and the other computer he's using to get the drivers and CPUZ application off of is using windows 7.

So I'm wondering, are windows 7 applications compatible with 10? If he were to download the cpuz and a driver installer program from the mobo's manfucatuerer onto the usb using windows 7 would it be compatible on windows 10?
 
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Doesn't matter which OS you use to download the drivers with - - you're not going to actually install any of them on that OS so it doesn't matter.

Nor does it matter about the CPUZ utility - it's only going to be used to identify the mobo on the Windows 10 PC - - after which you don't need CPUZ any more anyway. (you don't even need to use CPUZ at all - - just pop open the case and look at the model info on the mobo itself - - it's not rocket science).

Download drivers on to a pen drive, then pop the pen drive in to the PC that needs them and install them from there.
Doesn't matter which OS you use to download the drivers with - - you're not going to actually install any of them on that OS so it doesn't matter.

Nor does it matter about the CPUZ utility - it's only going to be used to identify the mobo on the Windows 10 PC - - after which you don't need CPUZ any more anyway. (you don't even need to use CPUZ at all - - just pop open the case and look at the model info on the mobo itself - - it's not rocket science).

Download drivers on to a pen drive, then pop the pen drive in to the PC that needs them and install them from there.
 
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