The end of windows XP and Microsoft collosal stupity.

[Andylusion]

I'm actually more pissed at all the companies who have stopped updating their drivers to work with Windows 7 or 8, FORCING me to keep one machine around that's running XP so that I can still use those devices.

Creative is a huge offender in that regard.

I had the same problem with my HP scanner/printer, which no longer made scanner drivers for my printer. It was ridiculous because the printer wasn't all that old. Nevertheless, since I rarely if ever needed to scan anything, I never bothered to replace it with a newer model.

Then during a free upgrade of Mac OS X, the preview program standard with Mac OS X, had generic scanner drivers that came with the system, and it scans perfectly now, after being un-usable for years. I wish I had known, and I would have upgraded my system a long time ago. (I rarely upgrade unless I have a specific reason to).

 

[Bleipriester]

Preyty much everyone is. Windows 8 is crap.

Once you have your personal solution to deal with the Modern UI, its nice.

 

[Politico]

No one should have to come up with one. That is why they are abandoning it in droves and Microdumbsoft is moving away from it.

 

[Bleipriester]

Right, but theres a simple solution called startisback. A simple registry entry applied prior to the installation of SIB solves a major problem, if you are using Windows 8.1. Startisback does not only add a startmenu, it even does it better then older Windows versions and also deals with Windows 8´s corner annoyances if that is the wish of the user.

Dare it, create a regfile with following content and apply it. Therefor open Edior, copy the content inside and save as "sib.reg" with quotes. sib is just a placeholder for the name you wish to give it but it needs to end with .reg of course.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\StartIsBack\License]
"ActivationData"=hex:11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,\
11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,\
11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,\
11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,\
11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,\
11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11
"LicenseHash"="00000000000000000000000000000000"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\StartIsBack\License]
"ActivationData"=hex:11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,\
11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,\
11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,\
11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,\
11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,\
11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11
"LicenseHash"="00000000000000000000000000000000"