Damnit Microsoft - Rant

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HavocXphere

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Got my sister's laptop here & doing maintenance.

MS update wants to update the chipset and WLAN. Yep lets do that. Installs the chipset & freezes on the WLAN.:rolleyes: Hard-reset.

Now the resolution is reset to 800x600 and options are gone. Device manager says the chipset driver is broken/unsigned. Rollback driver...nothing changes. Find updated driver...none available the rolled-back one is the latest.:confused:

MS update list the update as not installed, but if you install it its already installed w/ error code. :confused:

Right now I'm doing backups of the data. Just in case MS decides it needs to break that too.:mad:

EDIT: Fixed. Dell website has an older driver version (7.15 vs 8.15) that does what it says on the box. Now to hide the damn MS updates.

OT: Dell has a pretty solid driver download site going there. You type in the code on the laptop's sticker & then you only see relevant stuff. Even worked out that the OS install is German.
 
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Spynx said:
Never get updates for drivers from MS, get the official releases from manufacturers websites.
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I guess. Theoretically it should be OK though: The MS x64 drivers are signed by Verisign, which costs big bucks. So its practically impossible for the MS drivers to be anything but "official" unless someone managed to steal the manufacturers private key.

Theory & practice diverge sometimes. :(

bekdik said:
a restore would have sorte you.
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True. However, I spent a couple of hours making changes to the laptop, so wasn't very keen on a restore as that would have wiped at least some of the work.
 
Always best to setup a notebook/desktop with the manufacturer's original driver disk & then run Windows Update. If Windows Update finds updates for your drivers, install them.

Has worked well for me since the days of Windows XP.
 
HavocXphere said:
I guess. Theoretically it should be OK though: The MS x64 drivers are signed by Verisign, which costs big bucks. So its practically impossible for the MS drivers to be anything but "official" unless someone managed to steal the manufacturers private key.

Theory & practice diverge sometimes. :(


True. However, I spent a couple of hours making changes to the laptop, so wasn't very keen on a restore as that would have wiped at least some of the work.
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Windows normally creates a restore point immediately prior to updating or installing, in which case you would not have lost anything.
 
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