Five years ago I bought a piece of kit to enable you to download your videos to your computer and enable you to make a CD etc.Now I just get down to start doing it and find out that as I am now using Windows Ultimate the aforesaid gadget will not work!!Apparently a few people are in the same boat!My question now is ,is it worth going back to XP just to use it or is there another gadget available on the market in Thailand?

Simply right click on the application you wish to use and run it in compatibility mode. You can run applications as if you had XP, service packs 1 / 2, Vista etc without having to go back to having them installed on your computer. I use this for some old games I have.

Simply right click on the application you wish to use and run it in compatibility mode. You can run applications as if you had XP, service packs 1 / 2, Vista etc without having to go back to having them installed on your computer. I use this for some old games I have.

Of course this will only help if its the software to blame and not the "gadget" driver not beng compatable. Suggest you check the gadget maker's website to see if they offer a driver upgrade.

Can you idenmtify the gadget, that way we can make a comparison with modern gadgets.

If the gadget was designed to be used with windows XP then it will already have the driver installed on it for XP so using the compatibility mode will work Wolf ?

If the gadget was designed to be used with windows XP then it will already have the driver installed on it for XP so using the compatibility mode will work Wolf ?

Not necessarily. The driver is low level code that is called by the operating system to "talk" to the device. The problem with low level code is that it hooks directly to both the device and the OS API - or even lower in the kernel itself (or direct addressing). If the API (etc) changes, then the driver fails. The user does not get chance to interact with this communication. That is why companies such as ATI release new drivers for Vista and Windows 7, because of bugs caused by changes to the OS internals. XP to WIn 7 was a big step internally, so most drivers changed - although Microsoft supplied many common drivers with the OS, so upgrading often seemed fairly easy (somethging they didn't learn with ME/XP or even early Vista versions) - however older, or uncommon devices, or companies that do not allow M$ to provide/distribute drivers, mean an update of driver is required.

High level software can make use of compatability because it sits at the high level (above the OS) so the OS can simply provide a partition that behaves like XP in memory.

The piece of equipment is called ADS technology.I did find a site that gives advice but as far as my model goes there is not a driver that works with anything but XPand there are a lot of cheesed of people!So what to do!!!

If the gadget was designed to be used with windows XP then it will already have the driver installed on it for XP so using the compatibility mode will work Wolf ?

Not necessarily. The driver is low level code that is called by the operating system to "talk" to the device. The problem with low level code is that it hooks directly to both the device and the OS API - or even lower in the kernel itself (or direct addressing). If the API (etc) changes, then the driver fails. The user does not get chance to interact with this communication. That is why companies such as ATI release new drivers for Vista and Windows 7, because of bugs caused by changes to the OS internals. XP to WIn 7 was a big step internally, so most drivers changed - although Microsoft supplied many common drivers with the OS, so upgrading often seemed fairly easy (somethging they didn't learn with ME/XP or even early Vista versions) - however older, or uncommon devices, or companies that do not allow M$ to provide/distribute drivers, mean an update of driver is required.

High level software can make use of compatability because it sits at the high level (above the OS) so the OS can simply provide a partition that behaves like XP in memory.

Have you checked for updates?

http://www.adstechnologies.com/

Even if there are no updates, since you are running Ultimate you have access to Windows XP mode. I've used this on several occasions for really old hardware / software and it works well.