BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 1 month agoWindows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardwarewww.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1119arrow-down1external-linkWindows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardwarewww.windowscentral.comBrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNachBarcelona@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·1 month agoI uploaded a pack of about 100,000 legacy drivers to archive.org for y’all’s printing maintenance pleasure: https://archive.org/details/100.000-drivers-win9x-xp-vista
minus-squareL7HM77@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoY’all doin god’s work. Archive saved my ass a couple months ago, had to run Win7 in a VM for legacy software, had to pass a USB 3.0 Ethernet adapter into it. Pulled a generic USB 3.0 driver for Win7 from archive.org, last place on earth to grab it.
I uploaded a pack of about 100,000 legacy drivers to archive.org for y’all’s printing maintenance pleasure: https://archive.org/details/100.000-drivers-win9x-xp-vista
Y’all doin god’s work. Archive saved my ass a couple months ago, had to run Win7 in a VM for legacy software, had to pass a USB 3.0 Ethernet adapter into it. Pulled a generic USB 3.0 driver for Win7 from archive.org, last place on earth to grab it.