So in the absence of actual support, we find our own solution via a minor script edit to an official driver ".inf" file. I'll add other graphics chip providers still provide drivers for older versions of Windows within reason and Intel not doing similar as far back as Windows 7 seems strange to me. Windows 8.1 is still also receiving updates from Microsoft. Windows 7, for example, is still preferred by many and is still being supported up to January 14th 2020. Given the "hack" as you call or edit as I call it on the " igdlh64.inf" file is not too difficult, I am at a loss as to why Intel has excluded older versions of Windows from this and similar drivers. I have thus set up both my PCs as dual boot between Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 and the former is my preferred platform on both. Separately form that, Windows 8.1 is just that bit punchier speed-wise and it's operation is to me a lot cleaner (Windows 8.1 is what the awful Windows 8 should have been from the beginning). This is quite important given I don't have the fastest broadband connection in that I can do what I need to do before downloading updates takes up my bandwidth. I n Windows 8.1, I have more control over when updates are downloaded in that I'm set up so I am told when there are updates and I can choose to download them when I want. I find Windows 8.1 is less intensive resource wise than Windows 10.įor example, when I boot into Windows 10 the first thing it does is try to see what updates are available.
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