Windows 8.1 Extended Kernel?

[K4sum1]

There's win10verhack, I use it to help install Windscribe, but it doesn't work for much, and is x64 only.

[legacyfan]

5 hours ago, K4sum1 said:

There's win10verhack, I use it to help install Windscribe, but it doesn't work for much, and is x64 only.

<O.T> thanks for the link @K4sum1 (I'll have to try this on my windows 7 setup the next time I have the chance to do so) and see if it works for some programs I wanted to test

Edited March 21, 2023 by legacyfan
Added The <O.T> To The Message

[Cocodile]

3 hours ago, legacyfan said:

thanks for the link @K4sum1 (I'll have to try this on my windows 7 setup)

How is this relevant ?

[sonyu]

On 3/21/2023 at 5:28 PM, K4sum1 said:

There's win10verhack, I use it to help install Windscribe, but it doesn't work for much, and is x64 only.

is there something like win8verhack for w10? yes, I'm looking for the opposite to make one Windows 10 application think it's w8. I want to do a test with the explorer & taskbar. Thanks

@K4sum1

@vinifera

 

[K4sum1]

Just now, sonyu said:

is there something like win8verhack for w10? yes, I'm looking for the opposite to make one Windows 10 application think it's w8. I want to do a test with the explorer & taskbar. Thanks

@K4sum1

@vinifera

 

No, but you can probably modify the source of the program and compile it.

[Saswat Tech Center]

Guys! Office 2021 runs Windows 8.1! I got this picture from this link:-

 

https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/office-2021-ltsc-on-windows-8-1-8-0-works-fine.83717/

[Yordan]

I got Firefox 127.0.1 working on Windows 8.1 and it's not crashing, like in Windows 7 with this trick, haha.

[K4sum1]

3 minutes ago, Yordan said:

I got Firefox 127.0.1 working on Windows 8.1 and it's not crashing, like in Windows 7 with this trick, haha.

To get it working on 7 (VxKex), you need to edit prefs.js and set browser.taskbar.lists.legacyBackend to true

or just use r3dfox

[Yordan]

On 6/23/2024 at 3:28 PM, K4sum1 said:

To get it working on 7 (VxKex), you need to edit prefs.js and set browser.taskbar.lists.legacyBackend to true

or just use r3dfox

Ok, thanks for the response bro, I appreciate that!

Edited June 25, 2024 by Yordan

[yoltboy01]

I made a lot of posts on Windows 8.1 and software compatibility.

In terms of Firefox, all you need to do is to lower the system requirements of Firefox.exe with CFF Explorer from 000A to 0006. There are no additional functionalties needed. So it still natively supported on Win8+

Office 365 (the latest beta 2407) works on 8.1 with an edit to Registry. No compatibility issues. I hope the compatibility won't be broken till the end of this year, so that consumer versions of the upcoming Office 2024 can also be installed on Windows 8.1 (they will be supported till 2029)

Chromium based apps tend to create bigger issues on 8.1

Edited June 26, 2024 by yoltboy01