Re: Does MS retire drivers for old hardware from Windows Update??
- From: "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:22:04 -0500
From: "Homer J. Simpson" <root@xxxxxxxxx>
| Hi all,
|
| I have an ancient HP Scanjet 4p SCSI scanner, that XP identifies as a
| C1130A. After a clean OS install, Windows Update has always shown a driver
| available for it, so I've never saved a copy of the driver installer.
| Actually, I've never been able to save, locally, the setup program for any
| driver offered by Windows Update, but that's another story for another time.
|
| In any case, I've recently had to rebuild that system and, as expected, the
| device showed up as "Other devices/HP C1130A SCSI Processor Device" in
| Device Manager. If I tell it to fetch the driver from Windows Update (as
| I've done in the past), it now claims it can't find it ("the hardware was
| not installed because the wizard cannot find the necessary software").
|
| The part that gets me is that over the years, this particular system has
| gone through a number of full reinstalls, and every single, I've never had
| to download/run a separate program to install the drivers for this
| particular scanner--I've always just let it go to Windows Update, find the
| driver automatically, install it, and that was it.
|
| So back to my subject line--has MS been known to silently retire drivers for
| old hardware, even though they're working perfectly fine??
|
| The part-time conspiracy theorist in me suspects that MS might have done a
| code review during some security push, found some flaw, and then decided the
| hardware is so old that it wasn't worth fixing and thus they just removed
| it...
|
The *best* advice is to not get hardware drivers through Windows Update.
Get them directly from the manufacturer or vendor.
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
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