I finally got a full working download after 5 or 6 tries. And dude I love it, it is so smooth and fast. The problems I had with other versions of 8.1 are gone except for no wifi driver but I have to live with that It seems. So, good work and thankyou. The only thing is, part of it says it's Windows 9 the rest says 8.1, would be cool if it was all 9
Thanks Weird that you only had the one driver issue. Usually it's either none or a slew of them especially if the hardware is of the latest generations (ie, xxxLake/Ryzen). Have you tried the site of the manufacture/vendor of your WiFi device? Even if they only offer a Windows 7 driver, in many cases those will still install on Windows 8.1. It's the Win10-only drivers that won't install on Win8.1 Absolutely, that would be cool; but the more you "bend" something like that the more things start breaking. As it was, just the little that was done -- which was basically nothing more than cosmetic -- was straining the activation mechanisms.
This motherboard is an MSI and they only support windows 10. It isn't the only driver, there is a PCI Device driver missing but I have no idea what that is. All I can find out is in PCI Device Properties it says " Device PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1AED&SUBSYS_3FC81458&REV_A1\4&f71f481&0&0308 was configured. Driver Name: null Class Guid: {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} Driver Date: Driver Version: Driver Provider: Driver Section: Driver Rank: 0x0 Matching Device Id: Outranked Drivers: Device Updated: false " I think possibly it might be a card reader I have connected, i'm not having any side issues though lol
Yeah, that's the catch, isn't it? When I and others (msfn, NoelC, etc) set out to make our aging PC's work with a still-supported and modern Windows, we hadn't foreseen what a major roadblock MS had already set up for us in anticipation of the day we'd ever replaced them with newer ones... essentially rendering them useless unless Windows 10 is installed. I guess I need some sort of warning or caveat that Last 9 will only work with Win7 thru Win8.1 era desktops or laptops with at least Windows 7 drivers available (in case the OS doesn't recognize or install them automatically).
Yeah it sucks aye, I ended up being forced to go back to 10 because I needed my network sharing to bad. Wanted to upgrade for years and then when I finally do I regret it lol
@The Freezer Small question The Freezer, if I may What theme did you use for the aero effect and the start menu coloring? For whatever reason it looks so satisfying to me and I wanna try that in my own build
I believe the theme I used was "Aero7 V2 for Windows 8/8.1" The startmenu was a skin for Open-Shell called "WIN7LIKE COMBO revC" The ThemeAtlas, I'm not sure but I think it was NoelC's (or a modified one of his) from a thread on MSFN's called "Aero Glass ThemeAtlas". The Taskbar Texture I used was the "Plexcellent Taskbar"'. Not sure how I got the "Dark Active Button". None of which would've been possible without BigMuscle's Aero Glass: www.glass8.eu/
Activators are almost* always false positives. In fact the majority of "HackTool" detections I've seen are completely fake.
