Questions tagged [drivers]
Drivers are the middleware that allow computer programs to use resources of a specific hardware device.
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Windows 10, 'System' process taking massive amounts of RAM
Since I upgraded to Windows 10, my system has been consuming RAM excessively
I've been reading a bit and determined it's likely a driver leaking memory. So I got myself the Windows Driver Kit and ...
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Make Windows 10 stop installing driver software automatically
I've upgraded my PC from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Pro; overall it seems to be working fine, with small bugs here and there. One thing that I find really annoying is that Windows seems to think ...
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Windows 10 100% Disk Usage after Startup [duplicate]
After startup for 5 minutes, my system is very slow. The Task Manager shows that the disk usage is at 100%.
(Later this number is around 2-4 %, but sometimes for 1-2 minutes goes up again at 100%.)
I ...
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How do I go about backing up/saving installed device drivers in Windows?
I want to reinstall Windows on a machine which has some very obscure drivers. I don't much fancy having to hunt round for them (that's if I'm able to locate them at all).
Is it possible to save or ...
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How can I disable my laptop's built-in keyboard in Windows 7?
I have a HP Compaq Presario C700 laptop with Windows 7 installed on it.
My laptop's keyboard is not working properly; some keys never work and some keys will keep on pressing. I've formatted the OS ...
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How to diagnose Blue Screens in Windows 7 (64bit)
Using programs like WhoCrashed and BlueScreenView you can see the BSOD and the errors but how do you tell exactly what's causing the BSOD?
I'm not sure if it's because of bad hardware, bad driver ...
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Where should I find drivers for my Windows computer if it didn't come with a driver disk?
I had to reformat my machine because I had a virus. My machine did not come with a driver disk. How can I install drivers after having reinstalled Windows?
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How to find vendor and model of unknown drivers
I reinstalled windows on a new machine and the drivers are not present for the product network card.
When in device manager all I get is the question mark and I am unable to figure out the actual ...
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Win8 downgrade - Windows 7 installation "Driver not found" [duplicate]
I have an Asus R500VD laptop which came with the preinstalled Windows 8. As actually this computer will be used by my grandmother (and she's only using win 7) I'd like to downgrade it.
Thanks to ...
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High CPU usage by "System" and "System interrupts" (caused by ACPI.sys)
I have a laptop, which was running Windows 8.1 x64 without any problems. Now with Windows 10 x64 installed, Task Manager constantly shows unusual CPU usage by "System" and "System interrupts". To ...
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Bypassing "Found New Hardware Wizard" / Setting Windows to Install Drivers Automatically
My motherboard finally died after the better part of a decade, so I bought a used system. I put my old hard-drive and sound-card in the new system, and connected my old keyboard and mouse (the rest of ...
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Add Network Printer drivers in Windows 7/Server 2008 R2?
I'm running a 64 bit Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2 workstation that I just installed. I need to add a printer that is shared on the network from a 32bit Windows 2000 print server.
This is an HP ...
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How to mount read-write an ext4 partition on Windows? [duplicate]
I want to use ext4 on my external HDD, but it must be cross-platform. (At least Linux, Win7 & WinXP).
Unfortunately, I haven't found any proper driver allowing Windows to WRITE to ext4. I've ...
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Disable automatic driver update for only one device in Windows 10
Is there a way we can disable automatic driver update for a specific device in Windows 10? The updated driver for that device (Intel Management Engine Interface 11.x in particular) causes problems on ...
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Difference and relation between firmware and device driver
How are firmware and device driver
different and related? I think both
control devices?
Is firmware always self-booting,
while driver must be run/booted by OS?
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How do I delete folders from the Windows 7 DriverStore?
I am having a problem getting a specific device to work, and I am trying to start from square one by making sure there are absolutely no leftover files from driver installs on my system. Specifically ...
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Why does Windows 7 ask for additional drivers when installing from a USB 3.0 drive?
I just bought a new config ( ASUS p8z68-v lx, i5-2500k + ram and new graphic card ).
Coming back and installing it in my old computer, I just saw that my DVD player was on IDE (yup…).
So, I needed to ...
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Why should I install hardware drivers if my computer is working fine?
I've just installed Windows 7 on my PC.
I went online to look for drivers. For my motherboard, Foxconn offers LAN drivers, on-board audio drivers, and chipset drivers. And for my graphics card, ...
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Windows: how to install driver from recovery command prompt?
I'm trying to enable Intel SRT on my laptop. To do this, I need to change SATA controller mode from AHCI to RAID. The problem is that windows has no drivers for RAID and I can't install it while ...
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Play audio over network with Windows 7?
I have seen software for Linux systems that allows me to send the audio from one system to another over the network, is there such a software (a driver likely) for Windows, specificly XP but Vista and ...
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Nvidia graphics card no longer works in Windows 10 (error: Code 43) but works in Ubuntu
Currently, when I boot into Windows, one monitor stays black (undetected), and the other can only display 800x600 resolution.
When I look at Device Manager > Display Adapters > NVIDIA GeForce ...
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What's the reason behind "Stereo Mix" becoming a missing option?
Several newer computers I've worked on (Dell, mainly) are using IDT or Realtek drivers which lack the Stereo Mix option in audio recording devices.
I've tried all kinds of methods including ...
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Enable/disable Windows 7 device via command line
I have a device that I often enable and disable using the Device Manager. I'd like to write a script to do this programmatically (that is, using the command line). I saw a program called devcon that ...
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How to restart a video card driver in Windows 7?
Some times my video card driver (Intel GMA X4500HD) crashes and gets restarted automatically. But more often (almost every time I watch a flash-powered online video for a period of time) it just gets ...
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Use an unsigned driver in Windows 7 x64
I'm trying to use the RBC9 SpaceNavigator TEST x64 build drivers for my SpaceNavigator 3d joystick so that it can work as a normal joystick in games like Quake.
Unfortunately, I get the error "...
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Automatic driver search & update on Windows? [closed]
I have a Dell laptop issued by my employer, and I always find it a real pain to search for, download and maintain their drivers. It baffles me that there does not seem to be a nice way (product, ...
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Is it possible to use a 32-bit driver on 64-bit Windows 7?
I know it's not possible to install a 32-bit driver in the traditional way, but I really cannot find a 64-bit driver for my memory card reader. Is there anyway I can somehow use this device with a 32-...
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How do I disable audio jack detection In Windows 10 without using Realtek HD Audio Manager?
I have a headphone jack with a broken sensor. The headphones are normally supposed to turn on when they're plugged in. Because the jack is broken, however, my computer only detects that my headphones ...
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Should I install graphics card drivers from Windows Update?
Today I see that there's an update to my graphics card driver (NVidia GT 220) available on Windows Update. Should I install that, or stick to the drivers provided by the manufacturer?
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Corrupted graphics, crashes, and noisy GPU fan after updating NVIDIA GeForce drivers to 364.xx
I recently updated the drivers for my NVIDIA GeForce video card to version 364.72 (or other version in the 364.xx series), and I'm now experiencing issues such as the following:
Games or other ...
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How to enable AHCI in Windows XP without reinstalling
This question is part of a larger list of things I'll need to do before installing a new SSD drive, but I think it deserves its own question.
Current setup: A dual-boot machine with Windows XP ...
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Prevent Windows 10 from installing/updating a specific driver?
It seems that the recent Synaptics driver update for Synaptics SMBus TouchPad on Windows 10 (build 100049) somehow doesn't see my middle-button. Uninstalling, and installing an older driver for ...
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How do I enable "Momentum" (aka "Inertia") on a notebook with an Elan touchpad?
I have a Lenovo notebook (Win 8) with a touchpad that's manufactured by Elan (aka Elantech).
I've previously used a Synaptics touchpad on my old notebook and have gotten accustomed to its features ...
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Windows 10 on asus x44h touchpad scolling not working
I have just updated Windows 7 to Windows 10. My touchpad scolling (right-side) is not working anymore.
I have no idea how to fix this in Windows 10.
I have hit the start button and typed "...
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Cannot find ECS 945GCT drivers [duplicate]
I reinstalled windows xp sp3
In device manager I have two yellow marks:
- PCI Simple Communication Controller
- SM Bus Controller
CPU-Z says my MB is ECS 945GCT-M2 chipset i945G.
I visited so many ...
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How to print documents to pictures (gif, bmp etc.) on windows
What is the easiest way to capture the printout of a document in a picture (i.e. GIF, BMP etc.)? Making a screenshot does not help, since the printout is different and larger than the screen. Is there ...
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Is there any point in installing a monitor driver?
I'm guessing that most of the world's PCs are running with a default "Plug & Play Monitor" driver which seems to work well enough, and having just swapped to a 2005FPW, installed the driver and ...
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How to add drivers to Windows 7 installation DVD?
How I can bundle newer or missing drivers to Windows 7 DVD?
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50 USB webcams in a single computer. Is that really possible?
Theoretically an USB HD webcam working at 15 FPS consume a bandwidth nearing 18MB/s - 1280 (width) x 960(height) x 3(RGB channels) x 15(FPS) - without compression. An USB 2.0 controller have a ...
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What are the Requirements for Fullscreen Consoles in Windows 7?
When you try to switch a console to fullscreen in Windows 7, it gives the error This system does not support fullscreen mode. Of note is the part about “this system”, intimating that some systems do ...
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Turn Windows 7 desktop into grayscale
Is there a universal way to turn Windows 7 Aero desktop, all windows, etc into grayscale? I had an option to do this in Intel video drivers on my old laptop, now I have NVIDIA and don't know how to ...
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Drivers for headphones with in-line mic and remote control
Is there a way to get the in-line microphone and remote controller on headphones to work on Windows?
I've got Koss iSpark designed to work with iPhone, but also other smartphones. It has in-line ...
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Changing from RAID to AHCI and Windows 7 will not boot
I had a RAID0 array that for all intents and purposes went to hell. I put a new SSD (same on-board Intel controller) and installed a new copy of Windows on it and all the drivers (Intel Rapid Storage, ...
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What is roaming sensitivity?
For my Signal King SK-999WN Wifi adapter, I installed the Ralink 3070 driver package IS_Setup_ICS_081414_1.5.38.101.exe available from MediaTek. The driver has an option Roaming Sensitivity, which by ...
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Showing no audio output devices installed
Asus in search in incredible A555L i installed audio drivers but not working . I tried allot but i cant find solution. i given to asus service center they are solved issue but its worked only one day ...
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Can I prevent a driver from being installed with windows 8.1?
I have a Mid 2011 27" Imac with Windows 8. It works mostly fine with the latest bootcamp drivers, I don't have sound in the integrated sound card since I upgraded from Windows 7, but I use bluetooth ...
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How can I identify hardware components in a laptop?
I just reinstalled my Windows and now I don't have all the hardware components recognized. I have an laptop and website seems to have all the necessary drivers for my model. The problem is that I ...
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AMD Graphics Drivers won't install properly
Windows 8 x64
I have an MSI Frozr II AMD Radeon 7850 2GB. I bought it maybe about two weeks ago and upon installing it I've been having problems with the HDMi audio from it. I have another question ...
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Compatibility of Linux with Samsung series 7 Chronos
I want to buy a Samsung Chronos notebook and install Ubuntu alongside Windows.
Will there be any trouble with the hardware? I'd hope all the ports should work fine, keyboard special buttons, lights ...
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Windows 10: "Disable-NetAdapter" disconnect the hardware Bluetooth from the computer instead of turning it OFF
The Bluetooth worked fine until I run Disable-NetAdapter * and then Enable-NetAdapter *. It was supposed to just turn OFF/ON all net adapters (including Bluetooth), but it actually disconnects the ...
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