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The Bizhub C250 Printer by Konica Minolta has no official Windows 8 drivers yet, apparently some updated Windows 8 drivers will be released in July 2013 if all goes to plan. However I can confirm that the Windows 7 drivers appear to work perfectly on Windows 8. I tested the Bizhub C250 on a Windows 8 64bit install using the Windows 7 64bit drivers. Our setup consists of a networked Bizhub C250 with a static IP address. The Bizhub C250 driver installer found the printer on the network, installed the drivers and set its self as the default printer. After that everything worked the same as it does on our Windows 7 machines, including the various overlays we had created. Hopefully this post will be of use to people wondering if the Bizhub C250 will work on Windows 8. Download: Konica Minolta Bizhub C250 Windows 8 Completable Drivers Link: Bizhub C250 Drivers on My Konica Minolta Update: Official drivers for the Bizhub C250 dated the 08/07/2013 are now on the Konica Minolta website.

Windows 8 Install’s just got even easier on computers / laptops from OEM’s. Yesterday I had my first chance to do a clean Windows 8 install on a Laptop that shipped with Windows 8. Windows 8 from OEM’s no longer supply you with a product key, that product key is now embedded in the BIOS. With that in mind I was wondering how a re install was going to work. Well, it worked just how I hoped a Windows 8 re install would! I installed Windows 8 using a standard ISO from Microsoft’s Technet, meaning it had nothing special embedded in the ISO, or any other pre-installed apps from OEM’s, just a clean Windows 8 install exactly how Microsoft intended. Once the Laptop booted for the first time I checked and Windows 8 said it was already activated, great stuff! With Windows Vista and Windows 7 i had a collection of .XRM-MS and the associated product keys, so usually if i had to do a re install again i could use my Technet ISO’s, import the XRM-MS licence then when i activated with the key tied to the XRM-MS licence it would pick the SLIC information up in the BIOS and activate its’self offline. Basically Microsoft have now removed…

Creative are not happy that Daniel_k managed to create better drivers for the Creative Audigy sound card series than they could manage for Windows Vista. Creative are now trying to stop people getting the most out of there current hardware by stopping the drivers from been distributed. Over at Digiex the drivers for the following soundcard series can be downloaded: Audigy series Audigy 2 series Audigy 2 Value Audigy 2 ZS series Audigy 2 ZS Notebook Audigy 4 series The drivers should work on 32bit and 64bit editions of Windows Vista, read more and Download the Drivers at Digiex.