I am hoping to start a bookkeeping course with Ideal Schools but wanted to check first that their courses are compatible with Windows 8. Does anybody know? I bought a short course via Learndirect but I can't use it on my new laptop as it won't work with Windows 8. So I have to use my boyfriend's horrible old laptop and watch him use my brand new sparkly one. I can't find anything on the Ideal Schools website and I think their lines are closed today.
Many thanks
-- Edited by Jamelia on Sunday 10th of March 2013 11:33:57 AM
-- Edited by Jamelia on Sunday 10th of March 2013 11:49:01 AM
I cannot speak for Ideal so whilst you are waiting for a reply I'll approach this answer from the alternate approach of making windwos 8 work.
Did you try enableing the .net framework 3.5 on your new windows machine?
There are apparently lots of tricks to make windows 8 work with older programs.
Personally I will only buy PCs from manufacturers who still offer windows 7 as an option as if I wanted a smart phone I would have brtought a smart phone. I don't expect my computer to play at disguising itself as one.
As you can guess I'm not a W8 user but I do know that others that have reported issus with backward compatibility can often trace the issues with W8 being bundled with .net 4.5 which is non backwards compatible where .net 3.5 comes bundled with .net 2 & 3 and programs need that framework in order to work.
When W7 was new Microsoft did something similar that made older versions of Office non compatible so lots of people went out and purchased Office 2007 despite the ribbon being universally hated.
By the time that people realised that you could work around the compatibility issues of older versions of office many had got used to the ribbon so the ploy worked.
Hope that your issues are as simple as just enableing the old .net 3.5 framework.
Sure that Vince will be along soon and he knows more about these things than I do... Now where did I put my abacus....
Oh, and welcome to the forum,
kind regards,
Shaun.
p.s. I'll have a firk around the web and see if there is anything useful for getting your new machine sorted... Admittedly, if it was myself I would be foramtting the hard drive and installing W7 but that's a somewhat radical approach, loll.
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The best solution to any Win8 woes is to install Win7 - and a lot of machines sold with Win8 do seem to come with a Win7 licence so it can be done without any additional cost, other than the time it takes to install it.
Other than that, I have no real solutions because I'm trying to avoid Win8 like the plague*.
I used Win8 as a beta way back when, and thought it was awful. I didn't see it again until a couple of weeks ago when a client bought a Win8 machine for a new employee, and asked me to set up an email account and install some email and A/V software. It didn't look to have changed much in the intervening period, and was still awful.
* I will succumb to it if someone brings out a tablet that suits my needs (and very poor budget at the mo) - one with enough oomph, as well as memory, storage and connectivity that it's practical to use it as a tablet when lounging around, but can be plugged into a decent sized monitor and a proper keyboard and mouse, etc., as I've mentioned before. But until that happens, my current machine is three years old this month, and should be good for at least as long as it takes Microsoft to bring out a better operating system than Win8.
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