Does iCloud for Widows only work on a device running windows 10? I can't get it on my Windows 8.1 system.

I did not want to send that reply until I corrected some typos. It was sent anyway. Does a Backspace equate to a Post? I do read my responses before sending them. Looks like Post will work this time.

I got iCloud installed on my Win8.1

laptop. The link was the third choice in the directions.

After that I did not see an icon on my

Desktop. I did get a folder called iCloud Photos. I did not want

photos as a choice. I use an external HDD for that.

I did a search on “icloud” in File

Explorer. It return 272 items. !!!

I narrowed the search to “icloud

drive”. That found 2 items. One is recent. The other is from 2016

and shows a folder that is no longer valid. ??? I wonder how it found

that.

It gets worse.

Today I went into Outlook. ALL my

contacts are gone!

I get this message -“We didn't find anything to show here.”

Is this what iCloud is supposed to due?

How do I recover my contacts? I use this function every day. All my

links, user names and passwords are in my Contacts. I also looked at

my calendar. That has also been cleared of entries. I had

appointments and birth dates in there. All are gone.

I also could not sync my laptop to the

iCloud data on my HP desktop. This was my objective in using the

cloud. The HP has files in the iCloud Drive folder.

Is this a typical result?

It seems that each time I tried this by going to the Apple site, it then directed me to the Microsoft store. I will try it again, but don't see gow doing it again will change anythig.