I'm now leaning more towards doing the transfers through external hard drive (gulp) - however, I'm confused on how to hook up the new computer with the old computer still hooked up. Would I just plug it in, and then connect it to our wireless home network? It seems the (old) monitor has only one hook-up spot which the old computer is plugged into. Should I wait for the new monitor to arrive (which is supposed to be about a month from now according to the estimated delivery date)? Or do I need the new computer hooked into a monitor just for transferring data? Now I'm thinking maybe I just need the new computer plugged into the monitor, and the XP computer not plugged in - lol - I'm confused. Maybe I should wait until everything arrives.

Any new printer from a mainstream manufacturer will have Win8 drivers available and fully compatible. I've no direct experience trying to find drivers for Win8, but of course it's the printer manufacturer that produces it and most typically don't bother to do updates for vintage or older models long past being sold. With previous Windows version changes, old version drivers sometimes worked, but maybe not in this case since Win 8 is so different from 7. Have you tried to use a Win 7 driver?

That is the registry fix worked on 8 but according to posters who have this same problem, says it doesn't work on 8.1. I am going to play around with enlarging every thing and possibly using one of my FF apps to work on the other. I can use it the way it is, it's just one of those things that nags at me and keeps me looking for a fix. I had a problem with personalize/color (taskbar) and kept messing with it until I stumbled on a fix. My taskbar was snow white and didn't match my wallpaper, all the borders were snow white. the option shown below was missing.

As well, there are many temp files left from program installations, updates, and so on that are usually not removed automatically. And that is related to the OS, not any browser. CCleaner works well for that. If you're worried about what's going to happen, just use the "Analyze" button and check what's going to be removed before clicking on "Run". CCleaner also has a very good registry cleanup function under "Registry" - used it many times. This post was edited by kbarb on Fri, Jan 16, 15 at 16:06