Looks like the time to upgrade to Win10 is fast approaching.

[Easyscor]

A pet peeve:
To calibrate a joystick etc. in Win10, it's through the taskbar's "Show Hidden Icons". It's almost impossible to find the input devices through Settings.

Left click the little ^ symbol on the taskbar
Left click the USB icon, Safely Remove Hardware...
Left click Open Devices and Printers

The window shows the path as: Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers

 

[The Fugitive]

A pet peeve:
To calibrate a joystick etc. in Win10, it's through the taskbar's "Show Hidden Icons". It's almost impossible to find the input devices through Settings.

Left click the little ^ symbol on the taskbar
Left click the USB icon, Safely Remove Hardware...
Left click Open Devices and Printers

The window shows the path as: Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers

 

or.... left click the windows icon in the lower left corner, click on the settings icon, then type "device" in the search box. Select bluetooth and other devices.

[Vraciu]

Back in the day we would do a fresh Windows install about every six months.   It was annoying to have to reinstall all your other software but it made the thing run better.

I’m debating doing some sort of refresh on 10 to clean it up, but it will wind up an all-day slog.   I don’t have the heart for it.  Lol