Get New Drivers In Simple Terms
Dec 9, 2006
I know what drivers are, in principle, in simple terms. But not in detail.I've read about reinstalling XP, cuz I have considered that I may have to reformat and do that. I know about making sure first that I can boot from my CD first, and so forth.But I don't know what I'd do to make sure I have all the right drivers. How do I find out which ones I need? Do I need one "correct" one per device on my computer? I.e., one for the CD-RW, one for the monitor, one for my printer, one for my mouse, and so forth?
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Dec 19, 2009
Recently, Microsoft modified the licensing terms for OEM editions. Previously,purchasers were permitted to apply OEM licenses to their own computers provided the licenses were purchased with qualifying hardware. However, the Windows OEM System Builder EULA now prohibits purchasers from applying OEM licenses to computers they are building for themselves, friends, family members, etc.As explained in the revised license comparison, "[OEM licenses] must be preinstalled on a PC and sold to another unrelated party." (Emphasis added.) These revised licensing terms apply to all OEM versions of Windows currently sold, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Please keep these revised terms in mind when building your own computers
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Aug 1, 2008
I'm terrible with computers and technical terms but I really need help.When I switched on my laptop I came across a userinit.exe application error asking me to terminate it. After that, all I saw was my wallpaper. No desktop, taskbar, nothing. I looked through about a million forums for help and managed to get back my desktop by running explorer.exe by task manager.Now I get the rundll32.exe application error! Basically now when I switch on my laptop I have to run explorer.exe and get pass the rundll32.exe error by clicking OK multiple times.I can't access anything on the control panel since all I get is the rundll.exe error. I have run a scan in my laptop using NOD32 [thats what I found!] and I found no threats.
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Apr 22, 2007
whenever I start command prompt..that is cmd.exe .and try entering some commands such as ipconfig or chkdsk or attrib ..I get an error saying "not recognized as internal or external command" is not working...I m confused what to do.Right now I m not in a position to format my system.
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Mar 24, 2005
My three PCs run XP Pro with all patches. I am going to give a try to making some registry changes to tweak some things. Other than making a restore point, what is the best simple method to back up the registry, and be 99.999999999 % confident that you will be able to restore it should things go down the tubes. I would like to have a redundant backup in some method other than a restore point.
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Apr 23, 2006
I have a dell with win xp pro with sp2, 2gb or ram, 2.4ghz intel celleron, i run mcafee securiety center. My primary use for a computer is internet, video editing, and listing to music. previously i was able to edit videos when some small programs were running, but latley my computer is spiking to 100% cpu usage. now i cant even run a single simple program like winamp or internet explorer with out spiking and stuttering, let alone even thinking about opening my video edding program, or editing any video. it stutters and is very slow. i have a feeling it has something to do with how many back ground programs i am running that i dont know about. Is there a program or software that will minimize all unnessary programs or take controll of what programs can run?
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Jan 28, 2007
I'm trying to create a simple desktop cleanup batch file. What I want to do is to take every file located on my desktop except for a few shortcuts and move them to a certain directory.
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Apr 26, 2007
Well just recently my computer has been slowing to a crawl when I do (normally) simple tasks. Usually I can run a spyware scan on top of playing iTunes, working on a Word document and much more with no problems, but today I noticed that suddenly a scan by AVG alone is using nearly 70-80 percent of my processing power . Also Windows has been taking darn near forever to load. More than 2 minutes. I know this can't be normal. I've had this problem before but received almost no replies so please someone help. This is really ruining my computing experience. By the way I have an AMD Athlon X2 4200+. Any guesses as to what the problem might be?
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Jan 19, 2007
I have 5 or 6 different bootable floppy drives, partition magic, norton ghost, etc. I want to make them all bootable off a single CD, thumbdrive, etc. with a simple multimenu in dos. I've created the bootable thumb drive, and I've messed with the [menu] commands and such, but I can't get it to work. Is there a way to make a simple boot option to say, use this config.sys and this autoexec.bat?
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Mar 16, 2006
I suppose the title of this post could be something like, "Why can't XP be more like Win98?"But seriously: I have in front of me a File View of My Computer. In Documents and Settings, it shows me that there are apparently four accounts: Administrator, All Users, Default User, and me In each one of these there is, in differing combinations, things like My Documents,My Music, Favorites.. And, in some there are what appear to be administrative privileges (Local Settings). The confusion this is causing while transferring documents and files from the old machine is getting up my nose! (This is a piecemeal exercise as the old PC is still working as the office - word processing, spreadsheets, etc.)
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Jun 13, 2008
So I have a few SP3 machine that give the lovely gdi32.dll blue screen on boot. I can solve it by booting an XP disk and going into recovery mode to copy a new gdi32.dll over the old one, but I was thinking since I am going to be seeing alot of SP3 updates, and a good deal have errored out already, it'd be cool to automate the fix just a little to save some time. Time adds up when you have to let the Windows CD boot up, and then type out the file paths for copying the file, etc.Is there a way to run a batch file from a bootable CD or USB drive? I want to boot up, run the bat, restart. Seems like it'd be a very fast and very easy solution. I just don't know how to do that.
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May 27, 2008
I recently underwent a clean install of both Win2k Pro & WinXP Pro. In both instances, the DM is reporting that the 'Multimedia Audio Controller' and the 'PCI Simple Communications Controller' are not correctly recognized (drivers not installed).I've done some searching online and many people suggest that a dial-up modem is the culprit behind the messages. In fact, there isn't a dial-up modem installed in my system, only a 10/100 NIC which works fine with both Windows native driver and the maker's driver.I've also searched for the PCI commun. control. drivers online to find that I have nothing to download. I'm not entirely sure what this controller does, although I can most likely find the multimedia audio controller. It's worth noting that XP is acting flakey sometimes when I use explorer to navigate around directories, and that I was recently unable to install Sisoft's SANDRA diagnostics app. Otherwise, the system seems to be stable enough to use online and for basic text editing.
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Oct 13, 2007
I have an Emachines W2925 with Nvidia GE Force FX 5200, running XP on SP2
(for this problem it doesn't really matter.)The machine Locks up at random times AND reboots sometimes, especially when it gets hot, but not only when it gets hot. THIS IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL COMPUTER LOCKUP, I have been working on this problem for well over a year now ok, so take this seriously.I got the problem when I had little computer experience. I have not been able to enjoy almost ANYTHING in the world of online gaming or even simple flash games since the problem started, so im terribly frustrated. I learned several hundred new skills in order to tackle the problem, none have worked up to today
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Oct 9, 2010
How do I uninstall all drivers associated with my (windows xp) touch pad. Touch Pad is not working / bad drivers installed drivers over bad drivers.
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Aug 17, 2009
video card on my laptop messed up somehow, i can see a exclamation mark on the device manager in the display drivers tab... now im searching to update my driver but cant find any sources that would suit xp windows now everything is very laggy cuz it shows im not using any video card or something like that anyway?
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Jul 30, 2005
I purchased a SIIG PCI firmware adapter. It has no drivers and says that it will use Win XP drivers. Well I installed the board and booted the pc, Win XP
recognized the hardware but could not find any drivers. I tried unplugging it manually, installing it in another card slot with no luck. I took it back to
my pc dealer and he plugged it in his system and had no problems. I decide to try another brand, an IO Gear GIC1394.
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Apr 1, 2005
I often right click in IE and select Create Shortcut.It puts a shortcut and my desktop to that page. This mysteriously stopped working. The icon appears on my desktop with the page title and all, but when I double click it, it just opens up my browser and loads about:blank.In the shortcut file's properties, and then gives me the file's size, location,etc.but it doesn't list the URL anywhere. It's just getting on my nerves having to copy a page's URL to a text file on my desktop if I want to remind myself of something.
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Jun 4, 2006
I have tried to fix what I thought and probably was a "simple" thing.Other than reformatting the only other "simple" solution I see is to find a copy of my registry, [computer image before I screwed things up.]from several days ago and install that. Many years ago running Win98 I think I resolved a similar problem in this way.
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Nov 3, 2007
A friends HP Media Center PC m7077c crashed. Had no recover disk, etc. Installed XP Pro SP2 and I need drivers (according to Device Manager). No sound is obvious but video controller is not. Video seems okay. Where do I find drivers for this machine. XP Pro, Home and MCE are different OS's ... as far as my experience. The drivers are not the same.
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Jan 1, 2006
Whenever i install drivers on my pc, (i've tried graphics card drivers and wireless network card drivers) my pc stops working. When i installed the graphics card drivers, i tried testing the graphics on a game (counter-strike) but as soon as i got into the game, the pc flashes a blue screen, and reboots. I cant see what the blue screen says because it flashes on and off again to quick for me to read it. I decided to uninstall the graphics card drivers, and the game worked perfectly, but the graphics were REALLY bad. So i thought i might need to update some other drivers, so i tried to install my wireless network card, but when i finished installing the drivers when i had to restart my computer, it flashed the BSOD.... AGAIN! I need help urgently as im going to a LAN gaming comp called "rezidue" and its on in 2 weeks, i need my pc fixed by then! All these problems started when i upgraded my CPU. Everything was running smooth, and i was happily playing along on my computer, when i was asked what my FPS was in counter-strike, and i was all "mine are 65!" and there like "wow that sucks, mines 130" so i set out on my epic quest to get better FPS then everyone else and MAN THAT WAS A MISTAKE. I upgraded from my celeron 2.8ghz cpu to a P4 3.0ghz HT cpu, and thats when things started messing up on me. My entire system is as follows (incase it can help someone help me) P4 3.0ghz HT CPU, Microstar P4 motherboard, 128mb Nvidia Geforce mx4000 AGP x8 graphics card, 256MB ddr ram (recently brought new 1GB ddr ram off ebay just for rezidue! should be here soon!) TP-LINK 54mbps wireless network card) And last but not least
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Jun 18, 2005
I am trying to find drivers for sound because I reinstaled the Windows HP Home Edition and I can't find the suitable drivers.
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Jun 18, 2005
I am trying to find drivers for sound because I reinstaled the Windows HP Home Edition and I can't find the suitable drivers.
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Jun 25, 2010
I just recieved an IBM laptop while downloading some software, it was suggested by the site that I should download all the updated drivers. I am very wary of this advice because I don't want to fix something that doesn't seem to be broken, but at the same time, I would like to be up-to-date. I am running XP Pro, how I should proceed? And where I might safely download such drivers?
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Aug 8, 2005
Is there anybody who can tell how I can add a driver so that windows Xp recognize this and does a unattended installation of the hardware device (a example is a USB mouse) But the Windows XP is alreay installed so, I am not really looking for a sysprep solution?
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Oct 10, 2007
I recently reformatted my computer, after it went FUBAR on me, and now I am having some glitchy scrolls whenever I scroll down web pages, and I have no sound, it's the same thing that happened the last time I reformatted it, and it was like 5 months ago, so I can't remember the damned names of the drivers. Any help? I have windows xp home edition, and my graphics card is an ATI.. I remember something on the lines of CCC Catalyst Control Center.
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Apr 27, 2005
I accidently uninstalled the drivers for my Sony CD-RW CRX160E and Samsung CD-ROm SC-148C players. I have tried to roll back the drivers but there was no backup. Since my Windows XP was installed by my work and I no longer work for that company I am a bit stuck as to what to do.
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Oct 4, 2005
i have problems finding drivers for my motherboard.. i need usb 2.0 drivers.. my mb is a asus p4p800-x, i searched 4 drivers in many sites, like asus.com, but i haven't found yet..where can i found USB 2.0 drivers o
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Jun 3, 2005
I think i have a problem (not sure if i really do) I have win xp+sp2. When i go to My computer-properties-device-device manager-Controllers IDE ATA/ATAPI, and press '+', I see this line NVIDIA NForce 2(tm) SPP/IGP ATA Controller is this normal? should i seen something else?
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Nov 22, 2007
I've done a Compaq backup system restore; it backs up the majority of the system/other files including My Documents and such. I know the drivers from before are somewhere.
Where are drivers normally placed? I'm under Windows XP.
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Jun 5, 2010
I need xp pro sp3 with all the drivers to install in an other computer
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Nov 14, 2009
I install a windows xp professional on my dell dimension 5150 desktop(service tag=2gxb62j). after that the network is not working. i went to www.dell.com to see if i can download the drivers and install, but i am having difficulty downloading it. can someone give me a link to get these drivers for my computer?
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