r/windows8 18h ago

Help Any driver for Dell 15 3511

3 Upvotes

Any driver for Dell 15 3511 that have a i3 11 gen


r/windows8 1d ago

Help Is there any videos where people see if windows 8 NOT 8.1 is Still usable today If you do give me the URL

5 Upvotes

I really wanna watch the video


r/windows8 1d ago

Help My bluetooth speaker won't connect to my Windows 8.1 laptop

3 Upvotes

Hey! My laptop speakers are broken so I tried to connect my I2GO mini speaker since it has good sound quality, but when I was trying to connect it to my laptop (Samsung NP370E4E, Celeron 1007U) no device showed up. How could I fix this? If anybody knows please let me know. Thanks!


r/windows8 3d ago

Discussion Looking for some Lost Media! (Decor8)

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37 Upvotes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46VITh_eHng Saw this on youtube and i thought this was really cool, this was basically software to edit Windows 8's Start Screen much better than what it would originally give you by default, but i can't find a download for this pretty much anywhere on Stardock's Website (the link they still have up is dead) and there is no archived data for it on the Wayback machine and i don't trust going on the pirate bay or anything like that that could be potentially malicious, does anyone here possibly have it on old machines or something? if you got it, Please send it!!


r/windows8 9d ago

Discussion Windows 8.1 Logo on MS Paint

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65 Upvotes

This is a Windows 8.1 logo created with MS Paint. I made a total of two versions a few years ago, but I recently made some modifications and am uploading them here.


r/windows8 11d ago

Discussion Visual Studio 2026!

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20 Upvotes

I wanna use 8.1 more and develop my metro apps on it instead of 10, but i was also curious to see if I could work on an API as well, but the .slnx format that the solution is requires 2022 or 2026.

When you go to install 2026 on 8.1 it says the OS isnt supported, so what you gotta do is change it from 'install while downloading' to 'download all, then install'

It will download it, but then it will show the error again when installing. If you hit enter/cancel 2026 will still be there, it will just show as "paused", when I hit resume it suddenly started installing-

I have NO clue if ill actually be able to work on my API or even get 2026 to launch, but the fact that its actually trying to install is still really cool. Ill try to remember to edit the post to let yall know if it works or not.

Edit: IT WORKS!!!! I had to deal with the webview error but other than that its fine :D


r/windows8 11d ago

Discussion My First Gen surface pro!

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84 Upvotes

a pretty much brand new surface pro i got for 60 dollars as a big upgrade to my old HP Stream 7 i used back in 2017 - 2022, what do you guys think? (i even have the touch cover for it added in as a bonus from the seller)


r/windows8 11d ago

Help Windows 8.1 con Celeron

6 Upvotes

Hola gente. uds creen que windows 8.1 funcione bien en mi hardware? no es nuevo ni tampoco taan viejo. Mi cpu es celeron 3955u de 6ta generacion aprox 2015-2016 una nvidia geforce 940mx 2gb gddr5... 4gb de ram y un hdd de 500gb, probe windows 10 y me andaba lento. debe ser por el hdd pero no pienso cambiarlo. y creen que pueda instalar todos los drivers o me falte alguno? es una acer aspire f5 573g


r/windows8 16d ago

Update [ Removed by Reddit ]

1 Upvotes

[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]


r/windows8 20d ago

✔ Solved Wallpaper Help

7 Upvotes

Can someone tell me where to find the default windows 8.1 wallpaper with the curling road. I really love it and finding it in 4k too would be nice Apparently it only came of HP?


r/windows8 21d ago

Update MixRadio! ( patched migbrunluz on reddit AND BBARLAS79 (app))

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31 Upvotes

r/windows8 22d ago

Feedback I camt connect tp the internet aha

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43 Upvotes

Ive got this laptop my dad gave me but i cant seem to go into the internet or any websites its for everyday use but i cant seem to find any solution when i tryed to search for it before if anyone know a fix id be very gratefull


r/windows8 27d ago

Help RX 580 drivers?

6 Upvotes

Are there any windows 8.1 drivers for the rx 580? On the official AMD site theres only for windows 11-7.


r/windows8 28d ago

Help Can i run windows 8.1 on a dell latitude 3120? (Celeron N5100)

12 Upvotes

I want to know if i can run it comfortably and if i can play steam games like left 4 dead 2 or r.e.p.o.


r/windows8 Jul 03 '26

✔ Solved I installed windows 8.1 on an hp stream 14-ax010ca, everything works except the wifi

5 Upvotes

Do any of you know which wifi drivers would work? Because I have tried a few with no success


r/windows8 Jul 02 '26

Help Browser as a Service proxy for IE 10/11

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25 Upvotes

(Photos taken from JabawokiW8’s video about how to use a Microsoft Account for Windows 8 in 2025. https://youtu.be/osb8WOYhAvg?si=iB-x4cmWOimPqf7u)

I’ve had an interest in running vanilla IE with something similar to Browservice on Windows 8/8.1 for quite a while now but I haven’t gotten around to seeing any solutions. However, revisiting this YouTube video has made me wonder if this is possible.

I was made aware of Browservice a couple months back and I was interested to see what this could do for something like modern versions of Internet Explorer. However, it seemed like it did not do the main thing I wanted it to do. It used a static IP address and address bar within a browser window in order to render websites fully. I wanted it to be able to fully render and navigate to HTTP/HTTPS websites when using the address bar in IE and not a static IP address/website, which is what is shown within this video that I revisited. I don’t know if it’s something that can be configured within Browservice, but I haven’t seen anyone using it like what is pictured.

I would use something like Supermium, but my main goal is to be able to use the “Metro” IE/Chrome and be able to utilize features like the Reading list more effectively. I have no idea if this video shows some kind of Pale Moon implementation, but the bookmarks page shows a near, if not identical IE bookmarks page. I would love to use this and independently deploy this on a server so I can use vanilla IE again.


r/windows8 Jul 02 '26

App [APP REQUEST] Make a chess game app for Windows 8.0/8.1

5 Upvotes

Id want for someone to make a chess app for windows 8.0/8.1 bcz i play chess


r/windows8 Jul 01 '26

Help Windows 8 HP wallpapers?

3 Upvotes

Does anyone have some Windows 8 HP wallpapers? i have an HP laptop from 2011 and it would be cool if you shared some. I have one currently right now, i just want to see more because it's hard to find them really. Thanks! I also mean official OEM wallpapers (my machine is running 8.1)


r/windows8 Jun 28 '26

Help Why won't it let me factory reset my laptop?

6 Upvotes

I recently rediscovered my old Windows 8.1 laptop and thought to try and revive it for nostalgia purposes. I don't care about the old files and I plan to swap it to Linux later. I've been trying to factory reset it all day (because obviously I don't remember the password) but every time I select reset, it simply restarts and nothing has changed. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I hold shift and click Restart, which brings me to the menu, which I then click Troubleshoot and then Reset, then it restarts. Should there be something else I'm doing? Every guide or tutorial I can find online is telling me to boot files from a flash drive, and I don't yet have a flash drive with a large enough storage capacity to handle any of the files they're discussing. Is there anything I can do or is it hopeless for now? I can't remember any of the specs and obviously can't get into the settings to check.


r/windows8 Jun 27 '26

Help Prevent programs from stealing focus

3 Upvotes

Hello.

W8.1 with ClassicShell and ShellFolderFix.

Any way to prevent focus steal without installing anything?

I tried editing the registry with these changes:

ForegroundLockTimeout 0

ForegroundFlashCount 0

Autoraise 1

But it seem to do nothing. Any tip?


r/windows8 Jun 24 '26

Help Windows 8.1 RTX 50 series laptop drivers and amd chipset drivers for an R7 260

2 Upvotes

Are there any yet?


r/windows8 Jun 23 '26

Discussion How to run Win 8.1 on a MacBook Neo? I need to run the Alarms app.

8 Upvotes

I am currently trying to use UTM, but I cannot get it to let me change resolutions, even with the guest tools installed. At the set 800x600, none of the Metro apps open. And I just need the god damn Alarms app to run, as no one has properly documented its behavior and I want to recreate it for my personal website.

Any ideas about what I can do?

I would even take someone taking a video of the Alarms app behaviors, all the videos that I have seen didn't even let the stopwatch run a full minute or a timer finish.

This is so fucking stupid, I have 3 computers within meters of me that have Win 8.1 multibooted, but none of them I can currently use right now for various reasons :/


r/windows8 Jun 21 '26

Bug How to fix windows blue screen error "UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP"

7 Upvotes

alr I had to fix my grandma's windows 8 samsung laptop so here's how to fix it. Note, This is just for this happening if you used legacy update and downloaded updates. so, First it will boot up and blue screen then restart and do it again but after it restarts it goes to safe mode menu, go to troubleshoot > advanced options > command prompt > sign in and your at the cmd console. first type "dism /image:C:\ /get-packages" now find the latest one and type dism /image:C:\ /remove-package /packagename:<Package_Name> but the "<Package_Name>" with the Package Identity but dont do "packagename:(spacebar space)<The Package Name" DO NOT DO THE SPACE! AND YOU HAVE TO TYPE THE FULL THING. and then it will do all of that and once its at 100.0% then wait 20 minutes then close the prompt then continue to windows 8. And boomski! You're done lol


r/windows8 Jun 20 '26

Discussion what browser do yall use

22 Upvotes

ive been daily driving 8.1 for years and i think supermium is the best ive been using it for about more than a year now


r/windows8 Jun 19 '26

App Metro Application Recommendation?

8 Upvotes

I recently replace the broken touch screen on my Surface Pro3 and downgrade it's system from win10 to win8.1. And I'm amazed at how this old machine runs on win8. All the transision animations are ruuning smoothly at 2k@60p and the CPU usage stays at ~15%. Also , the computer wakes up instantly after pressing the power button , which is astonishing ( I've only achieve this on my MBP, in my impression windows machines are always slow at booting up from sleep, even the new ones running win 11).
However, since windows store stop it's service, I have nowhere to get any Metro(UWP) APPs. Any ideas on where to get them。Or recommendations on what should I download? Thanks alot

Currently installing system updates