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  • MS Wireless Comfort Keyboard 2000 & WIN8.1

    From Wendelin Uez@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 19 14:33:05 2023
    For an old workstation we have a MS Wireless Comfort Keyboard where we need
    to change the mail link.
    The actual copy of a MS keyboard configurator does no longer run under
    WIN8.1. Does anyone know how to obtain an older version for this? Thank you.

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Wendelin Uez on Tue Sep 19 14:30:27 2023
    Wendelin Uez <wuez@online.de> wrote:
    For an old workstation we have a MS Wireless Comfort Keyboard where we need to change the mail link.
    The actual copy of a MS keyboard configurator does no longer run under WIN8.1. Does anyone know how to obtain an older version for this? Thank you.

    Have you tried running the (.exe file of the) MS keyboard configurator
    in Compatibility Mode? That's the way to (try to) get older programs to
    run on newer Windows versions.

    And don't you mean you want a *newer* version (of the configurator)
    instead of an older one?

    BTW, this group is quite abandoned. Last (non-crossposted) post nearly
    four months ago. You might want to try more active groups. (Yes, those
    are mainly alt groups, not comp groups.)

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  • From Wendelin Uez@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 20 11:31:38 2023
    For an old workstation we have a MS Wireless Comfort Keyboard where we
    need
    to change the mail link.
    The actual copy of a MS keyboard configurator does no longer run under
    WIN8.1. Does anyone know how to obtain an older version for this? Thank
    you.

    Have you tried running the (.exe file of the) MS keyboard configurator
    in Compatibility Mode? That's the way to (try to) get older programs to
    run on newer Windows versions.

    Yes. The unpacking program does run and starts installation, and the installation programm works a few seconds and then reports in a longer
    sequence that a (unexplained) error occured and system requirements might
    not be satisfied.

    And don't you mean you want a *newer* version (of the configurator)
    instead of an older one?

    I don't thing so. MS delivers newest versions only for WIN 10/11 and those
    may no longer support WIN 8.1 so I need a version published under WIN 8.1 rather than WIN 10/11.

    BTW, this group is quite abandoned. Last (non-crossposted) post nearly
    four months ago. You might want to try more active groups. (Yes, those
    are mainly alt groups, not comp groups.)

    Thanks, I'll check if my NG provider offers such a group. Thank you very
    much.

    wuez

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Wendelin Uez on Wed Sep 20 19:21:36 2023
    Wendelin Uez <wuez@online.de> wrote:
    For an old workstation we have a MS Wireless Comfort Keyboard where
    we need to change the mail link.
    The actual copy of a MS keyboard configurator does no longer run under
    WIN8.1. Does anyone know how to obtain an older version for this? Thank
    you.

    Have you tried running the (.exe file of the) MS keyboard configurator
    in Compatibility Mode? That's the way to (try to) get older programs to
    run on newer Windows versions.

    Yes. The unpacking program does run and starts installation, and the installation programm works a few seconds and then reports in a longer sequence that a (unexplained) error occured and system requirements might
    not be satisfied.

    And don't you mean you want a *newer* version (of the configurator) instead of an older one?

    I don't thing so. MS delivers newest versions only for WIN 10/11 and those may no longer support WIN 8.1 so I need a version published under WIN 8.1 rather than WIN 10/11.

    I see. I thought you had an old (pre-8) version of the software which
    you wanted to run on a newer Windows version (8.1), but it is the other
    way around.

    I did a bit of searching on Google and microsoft.com, but did not find anything. For a search, one needs the *exact* product name/number of the keyboard, the exact name of the software, etc. and of course I don't
    have that information.

    I also looked on oldversion.com, but that probably mainly has (old)
    software *for* Windows and not so much (old) software *by* Microsoft.

    If you have a URL of the place where the software used to be or is,
    you might want to try the Internet Archive at archive.org.

    BTW, this group is quite abandoned. Last (non-crossposted) post nearly four months ago. You might want to try more active groups. (Yes, those
    are mainly alt groups, not comp groups.)

    Thanks, I'll check if my NG provider offers such a group. Thank you very much.

    FYI, these are the (other) groups I'm subscribed to:

    microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Probably dead, because 'owned' by MS. alt.windows7.general Quite active.
    alt.comp.os.windows-8 Quite dormant, so crosspost to 8 and 7. alt.comp.os.windows-10 Very active. Users might have used 7/8. alt.comp.os.windows-11 Quite active.

    Feel free to crosspost your response - if any - to one or more of
    these groups, including our exchanges quoted above.

    Happy hunting!

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