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Registry key to point to drivers
I remember that you could load all the various windows drivers onto
the harddrive. There was some registry key to point to these drivers so when windows looked for a driver it would find the driver on the harddrive instead of asking for you to enter the path to the driver. Robert |
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Registry key to point to drivers
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ups.com... I remember that you could load all the various windows drivers onto the harddrive. There was some registry key to point to these drivers so when windows looked for a driver it would find the driver on the harddrive instead of asking for you to enter the path to the driver. Memory has played you false. The Windows Instal routines write into the Registry the filepaths for certain drivers (possibly not all) either because they were on installation in the default locations or else you /Browsed to them. But you can always /Browse somewhere else: because nothing can guarantee that the right filepath this year will be the same as it was two years ago. (E.g. for convenience I keep a copy of the instal CD /Win98 and /Drivers directories on HDD H: but I moved them a while ago to drive G: and the Registry cannot know this.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Registry key to point to drivers
On Apr 8, 2:04 am, Bill Watt wrote:
You can copy the Win98 folder on the Windows CD to your HD. All you need is that folder, not the whole CD. Then Start Run and enter Regedit. Thanks Bill. Robert |
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Registry key to point to drivers
On 8 Apr 2007 20:26:15 -0700, wrote:
On Apr 8, 2:04 am, Bill Watt wrote: You can copy the Win98 folder on the Windows CD to your HD. All you need is that folder, not the whole CD. Then Start Run and enter Regedit. Thanks Bill. Robert Thanks for giving us the feedback. Regards, Bill Watt Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/ |
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