I don't know what patch you are talking about? There was shell available that provide the start button for Windows 8. However, Windows 8.1 does not need that since you can easily access your desktop from the home screen.
Window 10 (currently in preview mode) will make this irrelevant. On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Burnell West <burnie....@icloud.com> wrote: > I understand there are patches out there that make Windows 8.1 “look like” > (i.e. behave similarly) to earlier (non-swipable) versions of Windows. > These patches are to make upgrades to Windows 8.1 from Win 7 more palatable. > Maybe they are creating this problem? > > Burnie >> On Apr 11, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine >> <alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> To be fair, we got one quite disgruntled user recently who said exactly this: >> >> "This is Windows 8.1, As I already said, your installer puts all the >> .dll files in the bin folder. They won't work there. I have to move >> all of them to the Windows/System32 folder where they belong." >> >> Now, as some of team members pointed out, System32 sounds like he's on >> Windows 98 (with Windows 95 habits) rather than on 8.1. But is it >> correct to out .dll files there? And if it is, why would GIMP not work >> then? >> >> Alex >> >> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Partha Bagchi <parth...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Yes. >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Guy Sunderland <guysunfish...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Hi. >>>> >>>> Simple question: Does GIMP work on Windows 8.1? >> _______________________________________________ >> gimp-developer-list mailing list >> List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org >> List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list >> List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
