Audio. VIA only provides Windows 10 audio drivers for VIA Vinyl HD Audio Codecs that meet the Windows Logo Premium requirements, which can be found at the VIA Driver. List of features removed in Windows 8. Windows 8 is a version of Windows NT and the successor of Windows 7. Sade Ultimate Collection Rar more. Several features which are present on Windows Vista and Windows 7 are no longer present on Windows 8. Install Legacy Firewire Driver Windows 8' title='Install Legacy Firewire Driver Windows 8' />Windows shelleditStart button was removed from the taskbar although it was re added in Windows 8. Replacement methods for invoking Start screen include a hotspot in the lower left corner of the screen, where the Start screen tile pops up, and a Start button among the charms. Recent documents menu is removed from Start screen. Windows 8. FireWire is Apples name for the IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus. It was initiated by Apple in 1986 and developed by the IEEE P1394 Working Group, largely driven by. The best way to experience the Vista betas, or any operating system for that matter is to dualboot. Dualbooting offers you next to maximum performance, whilst. Start screen. 3Unified search is removed. A category specific search replaces the former. It can search Apps, Settings, Files or within an app specific index such as, for example, e mails from the Mail app but not all at once. The default category is Apps, but can be changed before or after performing a search. Windows 8. Windows Desktop Gadgets, first introduced in Windows Vista, are removed because of security vulnerabilities. Appearance and personalizationeditThe Aero Glass theme is replaced by a new theme with a flatter visual appearance in line with Metro design language. This is intended to prevent skeuomorphism. Aside from the taskbar, the new theme uses fewer transparency effects than the previous Glass theme. Flip 3. D is removed. WinTab now toggles between Windows Store apps and the desktop. The Windows Classic theme is removed. High contrast themes which previously used the Classic appearance are modified to use modern visual styles. Advanced appearance settings., once found in PersonalizationWindow Color and Appearance part of Control Panel is removed. Sample pictures, sample music clips, sample video clip and preset user account pictures a form of avatar are no longer available. The sound schemes that were first included with Windows 7 Afternoon, Calligraphy, Characters, Cityscape, Delta, Festival, Garden, Heritage, Landscape, Quirky, Raga, Savanna and Sonata are all no longer available only the folders remain in C WindowsMedia, and they are empty. File ExplorereditThe Briefcase option under New context menu is removed by default, but can be reinstated by editing the registry. Windows 8. 1 no longer shows Libraries by default. NetworkingeditFor dial up networking, some of the options under Redialing options, such as Redial attempts and Redial if line is dropped, are no longer available. Although dial up networking using PSTNtelephone line is becoming increasingly rare, this could affect users that still use it to connect to 2. G, 3. G andor 3. Gmobilenetworks and also DSL subscribers that use the systems PPPo. Edialer. 1. 2The Manage wireless networks option on the task pane of the Network and Sharing Centercontrol panel is no longer available, although some of its functionality is still available through the netsh command netsh wlan. Some of this functionality is reintroduced with the Windows 8. Update via the PC Settings app. Similarly, creating an ad hocwireless connection via the Set up a wireless ad hoc option under Set up a new connection or network is no longer available through the GUI users need to use the same netsh command or a third party utility such as Connectify. One can no longer save a Wi Fi connection to a flash drive from the Wireless Network Properties box under the Connection tab. Shortcuts for the Bluetooth File Transfer wizard,1. Windows 7 on a device with Bluetooth communication, are no longer provided. The utility itself fsquirt. Windows 8. x Bluetooth stack does not support Bluetooth A2. DP sink role. So playing audio from other phones or other PCs using Bluetooth to a PC running Windows 8. Windows 7 supported both A2. DP source and sink roles. Network Map is removed from Network and Sharing Center. User accounts and securityeditMedia featureseditWindows Media Center is no longer included with any of Windows 8 editions and is no longer offered as an add on by Microsoft. It was available until 2. US9. 9. 9 add on and before 2. Microsofts now discontinued Windows 8 Feature Packs web site1. Add features to Windows 8 service for Windows 8 Pro via the Media Center Pack and Windows 8 core edition via the Pro Pack. DVD Video and MPEG 2 Videocodecs are no longer included. Video DVDs can be played in Windows Media Center for those who acquired that add on while it was available. Windows DVD Maker was removed. Windows Media Center cannot run on startup or on top of other windows because of new Windows OS requirements and behaviors. Windows Media Player no longer has the Media Guide feature. Windows 2. Display Driver Model XDDM,2. Windows 8. 2. 3MIDI Mapper is removed programs now need to select a specific MIDI device. No selection means device 0, which is Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth. Windows 8. 1 removes Facebook and Flickr support from the Photos app. File systemeditBackup and Restore is deprecated and renamed Windows 7 File Recovery in favor of File History. In Windows 8. 1, incremental block based file backup and scheduling backups is removed. Only System Image Backup remains. Persistent shadow copies are no longer available. Therefore, the ability to browse, search andor recover older versions of files via the Previous Versions tab of the Properties dialog of files was removed for local volumes. Configuring and scheduling of previous versions of files was also removed from the System Protection tab of the Advanced System Properties systempropertiesadvanced. CHKDSK utility only shows the progress percentage when running at startup. Stop errors are simplified specifically, several paragraphs of generic advice and auxiliary error codes are removed. Windows 8. 1 added a Registry setting to revert the changes, which is also available to Windows 8 users after installing a hotfix. The sounds played upon login, logout and system shutdown were removed. The startup sound remains but is disabled by default. NET Framework 3. 5 is no longer installed. Windows requires an Internet connection to install it, although Microsoft has published a workaround that enables users to install it from Windows installation disc. NET Framework 1. 1 is not supported. In Windows 8. 1, the Windows Experience Index score is removed. Drivers for OHCI compliant Fire. Wire 4. 00 IEEE 1. Microsoft Support. Windows 8. x comes with drivers for Fire. Wire 8. 00 IEEE 1. Direct. Draw emulation, previously deprecated, now exhibits significant performance degradation in certain legacy games. See alsoeditReferenceseditTom Warren 1. February 2. 01. 2. Windows 8 Start button removed by Microsoft in Consumer Preview. The Verge. Retrieved 2. May 2. 01. 2.  Where have the Recent documents feature went abcd8. Microsoft removed from Windows 8. PC World. Retrieved 2. October 2. 01. 3. Thurrott, Paul. Windows 8 Tip Find Anything with Search. Retrieved 1. 3 November 2. Warren, Tom 6 July 2. Microsoft reportedly killing off desktop gadget support in Windows 8. The Verge. Vox Media. Retrieved 6 July 2. Gadgets have been discontinued. Microsoft. Retrieved 4 May 2. RIP Aero Glass Windows 8 Sticks a Fork in Familiar UI. PC Magazine. Ziff Davis. May 2. 01. 2. Retrieved 2. May 2. 01. 2.  Harris, Jensen 1. May 2. 01. 2. Creating the Windows 8 user experience. Retrieved 2. 4 June 2. Supporting High Contrast Themes Windows. Retrieved 2. 01. 2 1.