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What permissions could a printer driver require?
Windows 7 Professional, 32bit
We have a specialized printer for specific production tasks. This printer's driver has a strange problem where some of the options in the Printer Preferences are ...
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Is there any software for driver maintenance?
We use SCCM for OSD and consequently driver installation, and it works well. However, the issue becomes that when drivers are updated on the sccm server, only machines that are newly imaged and/or ...
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Windows Server 2003 ODBC Drivers
I have ran into a problem with Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 using ODBC Drivers. Here is my following scenario.
I have an application that currently uses ODBC System DSN's to connect to a ...
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Drivers initialization after reboot
For some reason. any driver i'm installing customary, like Virtual Sound Card drivers, do not initialize after reboot.
I tried virtual sound card drivers, they initialize fine when installing, but ...
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Driver services windows web server 2008 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Drivers initialization after reboot
I have a remote server with Windows Web Server 2008 SP2.
It seems that video/audio drivers wont install even with the correct ...
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Windows List Network Driver Stack?
I think there is a rougue filter driver in the Windows driver stack.
Are there any tools which will allow me to see the stack and all loaded drivers? In a nice tree format?
I know there is ...
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Obtain device driver version and associated GUID using PowerShell?
Right now, I am getting two separate objects
A Win32_NetworkAdapter WMI object
A Win32_PnpSignedDriver WMI object
In my previous scripts, I've made sure I was calling separate objects, and ...
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1answer
519 views
Pantech UML290 Verizon Driver
Is there a separate driver available for Pantech UML290 4G LTE USB Modem? I would prefer not to have to install VZAccess, but use the default Windows DUN support.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Drivers Missing Would Not Install?
I am building my dev machine with WS2008R2SP1. I consider Windows Server as the best development environment for C# since I tend to focus on server-centric (integration) applications. The desktop ...
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Limited user requires admin rights for plug and play printer?
I have a small fleet of laptops that aren't part of a domain running Windows XP Pro SP3 as limited users.
They are used for printing different shipping documents.
I have a script that runs when they ...
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2answers
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Support by Microsoft on Unsigned Driver
What is the support of Microsoft about unsigned drivers?
They support a System with them?
I'm looking for a document with the Windows Policy support and what they said about not drivers.
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2answers
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Silently install/add a print queue to a Windows client
Does anyone know how I can silently install/add a print queue to a Windows client? The clients are 32-bit Windows XP connecting to a Windows 2008 R2 print server, and I tried using the following ...
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Purge print driver cache on windows 7 with powershell script
[Background]
We have been having trouble with our network clients suddenly being unable to print. They get an odd error with a hex code. We determined that something in the driver was messed up and ...
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Is there a quick way to see what filesystem filter drivers are loaded on Windows 2008?
The question says it all, I think. I vaguely remember there was an easy way to do this, but don't remember what it was.
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3answers
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Install a windows driver without the unsigned warning appearing
I'm trying to create a batch install file and one of the tasks it does is install a 3rd party driver. This is unsigned and so pops up a warning and causes the rest of the script to fail on Windows XP ...
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2answers
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What is the reason for choosing a different print processor?
Almost every time I've had to change the print processor for a printer, it's because it's set to something other than WINPRINT/RAW. Granted, fax software sometimes makes use of other print processors, ...
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1answer
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What does dvi, int, sto, flq etc. stand for in setupapi.dev.log-files?
When debugging my .inf-file I have ended up reading the setupapi.dev.log-file (/windows/inf/) to find out what is going wrong. The Microsoft generated log-file contains the following abbreviations ...
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1answer
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Auto driver installation on Windows 7
Is there any way to completely automate driver installation in Windows 7?
I need to:
1. Completely uninstall previous driver including its software
2. Restart computer
3. Install new drivers from ...
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1answer
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HP4050, Windows 7 64 Bit, Printer Sharing from Windows Server
If I use a 'local printer' 'tcp port', I can print to an HP 4050 over the network from a Windows 7 64 bit machine using the Universal HP printer drivers (I happened to use Postscript).
However, the ...
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3answers
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Are there cumulative driver additions from repeated syspreps on different PCs?
e.g. I have a master PC, install drivers and sysprep and take image.
On PC 2 I installed that image, update any drivers, sysprep and take image.
Move to PC 3, install the image, update drivers, ...
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0answers
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Display driver installation fails on some computers, driver not signed
Im installing a displaydriver from intel on a number of laptops from dell, they all are of the same model and version with the same graphics card in them.
The problem that I'm having is that on some ...
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1answer
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Can I find out what application is using a mirror driver?
According to Windows, my machine can no longer display the Aero interface as an application is using a "mirror driver". I can't think of any software I've installed recently that would need to mirror ...
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1answer
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How do you map a virtual drive letter to a net work path on Windows
There are two computers PC1, PC2, there is a fold named: D:\Soft in PC1, and I want to use just one copy of soft.
so I used psubst to create a virtual driver D: in PC2 like below, and it works very ...
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Is it possible that the OS / some other app can cause my driver to hang for more than 1 second?
I have a driver that for one reason or an other it hanged for more than 1 second and crashed my app.
What possible causes do you know that can make a driver hang for more than one second inside an ...
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1answer
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Pausing a NOT_PAUSABLE service, pausing a not pausable service from the command line or code
I'm trying to pause a windows driver that has the NOT_PAUSABLE attribute set. when I send a
sc query ServiceName
the output is as follow:
TYPE : 110 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS (interactive)
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5answers
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update/change hard disk drivers without booting windows
I am trying to convert a physical server to a virtual one, I know that there are tools for this, but they either cost alot or have extreme requirements.
I have tried to use Norton Ghost to make a copy ...
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4answers
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Faster Windows Install + Automatisation
I'm looking for a way to install Windows Faster and let it run automaticly.
We do daily installations of Windows XP, Windows Vista and soon Windows 7.
We are currently using the following procedure:
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2answers
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USB drivers broken, and no PS/2 ports
Installing windows 2003 64bit on an Intel DQ35JO motherboard, after starting the automatic driver installation from the Intel Driver CD the USB is not functioning after the automatic reboot. This ...
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2answers
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utility to find driver updates (Windows)
Is there a utility that helps (technically apt) end users to locate driver updates for their machine?
Personally, I use SIW to determine the hardware, then scour the manufacturers web sites. I am ...
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3answers
120 views
Imaging Sony Viaos — Missing drivers
I've been given several Sony Viao VGN-BX760's from old software engineering students. I'm supposed to install Windows, drivers, necessary software, and image the other laptops with it. The problem is ...
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3answers
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How to update all windows drivers?
Is there any way to force windows to recheck all devices against drivers in its database (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DevicePath) and update to the latest drivers ...
2
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1answer
228 views
Stop automatic reinstall of drivers in drivercache
So, you've got a driver that's giving you problems and you uninstall the driver or device and it automatically gets reinstalled. Is there a way to stop windows from keeping a driver in the driver ...
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3answers
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Good/free tool or way to backup drivers
What is good free tool to backup all currently installed hardware drivers, or is there manual way to do it too?
Also, simple way to restore backed up collection of drivers to fresh reinstalled system, ...
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2answers
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Docking, undocking, losing devices…
Many of my co-workers and myself have a constant problem with docking and undocking our dell notebooks. Our company requires that we run a broad catalog software that starts at boot; but logically I ...
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2answers
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“System cannot find the file specified” trying to reinstall network driver
After uninstalling Symantec Enpoint Protection (manually) one computer (Windows XP) has an inoperative NIC; it shows up in device manager as conflicted.
I tried doing a windows repair from CD, which ...
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8answers
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Running Windows Server OS on a regular desktop machine
I was thinking of running maybe Windows Server 2008 or Windows Home Server on my home computer. But before I did the formatting etc, I would like to know if this is even possible. And I am then ...
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How can I get a list of windows printer driver installed on a server
I can manually install a printer driver on a server and that shows up as a configured printer just like on a workstation. However there are applications where I can provide a UNC name to a printer ...
