Sony Voice Recorder Driver Help Windows 10

[Bmdd]

Hello everyone. Not sure if anyone could help me with this, but people on here have been such a great huge help with other issues ive had, so worth a try, huh? Ok I have a Sony ICD-SX46 Voice Recorder. Sony's driver is only compatible with Windows Vista, XP, or 2000 however I am running windows 10. The device itself installed just fine on my laptop, however I have no driver to run it. Does anyone know if there is any other generic driver that may be compatible? I dont understand why Sony has a product that they dont update software for. I have done a bunch of "googling", lots of people are frustrated by this and there seems to be no alternatives to connect to PC. Just thought I would ask on here anyway. If there is a solution you guys can find it 😉
Thanks for your time

 

[Lutfij]

Here's the thing, you don't need generic drivers to get your voice recorder up and running. In fact most often generic drivers will only mess things up quite a bit.

If you have the drivers on hand, as of now, you can run the driver for the Sony ICD-SX46 in compatibility mode. This was brought back from Windows 7 although it was missing within 8 and 8.1 and was a welcome sight for all those running older hardware on their shiny new machines.

Here's how you avail compatibility mode:
Right click installer>Properties>Compatibility tab>Windows Vista/XP/2000 [ from the drop down menu]

I don't understand why Sony has a product that they don't update software for.

Creative have done this and they have been criticized for it. Most often they are re-branded hardware with rewritten software.

Hope this helps.