I'm having a worse experience with Windows 8, than I had with Windows 7. My printer didn't work until a few days ago, when it started printing in the middle of

I'm having a worse experience with Windows 8, than I had with Windows 7. My printer didn't work until a few days ago, when it started printing in the middle of the night - discreet driver update? - and my installation was suddenly deactivated, so now I get the most annoying activation prompt (which fails) constantly. Especially since it directs me to the tablet OS to do so. It's also absurd, that it takes something like five seconds for a clicked link in MetroTwit to open in my desktop browser.