Windows 11

Gdetrailer wrote:

wa8yxm wrote:

Mayor30 wrote:
In my opinion,Windows XP was the best of all the Window versions. Why couldn't they make updated versions of that instead of what they're doing?

Windows corporate policy
If it's not broke.. We will break it.

No truer but sadder words have been spoken when it comes to the sad state MS products are in.

Older Peripheral hardware that worked well with XP/7/8 no longer works well, works partially or randomly or not at all..

Have been fighting that fight the last few weeks setting up a W10 PC for my DW (she uses it for the times she needs to work from home).. A all in one printer/scanner we have been using on Win7 is only partially supported with Win10 drivers.

Making this even more difficult, MB manufacturers have been busy removing older legacy USB2/1 hardware (at the request of MS by the way) and hubs leaving you with a crippled USB3 port that simulates USB2.. To get the USB2 simulation one must have specific chipset USB drivers installed in Windows..

Older printers and scanners I have found are less than happy with this simulated USB2 enviroment and may work, may not work or sometimes just not show up..

The recommend MS "fix".. Don't use USB for printing and scanning!!! Nope instead, use the network printing! Yeah, like every printer/scanner had or has a network server built in..

I ended up installing a dedicated USB2/1 card I had laying around, but folks with laptops may have a difficult time doing that forcing folks to trash something that works fine on an older OS :R

New Laser printers with scanners are not cheap and neither is drums and toner you may have spares of. I don't live that way, some may call me cheap, I call it being thrifty and resourceful.

Just wasteful Americans at work..

Yeah, bingo, exactly. You said it well.

I do not use my desktop computer any more. Haven't used it in 7 years. Going to get rid of it one day. It runs Win 7.
On that Win 7 machine I ran a variety of older hardware. Everything ran perfect. Zero issues with drivers or anything else.

Fast forward to the only computer I run now, my Win 10 laptop.

I have a top of the line Canon laser all in one. Awesome device, cheap to run, crystal clear pages etc. Try as I might, I just cannot find a driver to make it work on Win 10. I have fiddled with it every way I can think of with no joy. So it sits, unused until I take it to the recycle place. Grrrr that makes my blood boil.

Next, a very old Samsung mono laser printer. (ML-2510) I bought it used in 2008 and it is the best printer I have ever had for general mono printing. After a huge amount of grief and misery, I managged to make it run on Win 10 64 bit. But lately it will just stop working. I have to fiddle fool with it, switch it on and off multiple times, unplug and replug the USB cable multiple times before it finally comes back online.

I have an old Canoscan FS4000US for digitizing my slide collection. Win 10? Forget it. But I managed to find a place that reverse engineered the old drivers and tweaked them to run on Win 10.

Windoze could make older hardware work, they just don't want to...

I plugged my 12 year old Canon 9000F flatbed scanner in a week ago after it sat unused in a box for many years. I was very surprised when it actually worked with no hassle or digging for drivers.

Windows 11? No thank you. Yeah, XP was awesome.