Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> added the comment:

I think we'll be keeping Win7 with the KB.

However, we've discovered in the PR that changing the default DLL lookup may 
cause Python to crash when accessing HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA (which fails to 
delay-load a DLL). This occurs because accessing that key enumerates a set of 
installed services (presumably both 1st and 3rd party) and one of those fails 
on AppVeyor. (The Azure Pipelines tests are fine, as are all the local test 
machines I've used.) There's no indication what AppVeyor has installed that is 
causing the problem.

So it seems we'll have to not use the safe DLL lookup for all parts of CPython, 
and restrict it only to ctypes and extension module loading. (Or else drop 
AppVeyor as a required check.)

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