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OK test results with 23 driverpacks (latest nightlies + all 3rd party packs except for HID and printers):

Traditional presetup.cmd: 5 minutes 20 seconds
Modified presetup.cmd: 3 minutes 45 seconds.

This is on a laptop drive. Not a speed demon. Not as much as I would hope, but still cuts time by a large margin

Notes: There seemed to be a long pause to extract packs no matter the size, even the tiny 3rd party stuff. Wonder what that is? It's definitely not the CD/DVD drive, that is observably no longer touched with this new test method.

Also: the extraction routine will cause low memory warnings on 512MB RAM machines or less! It still finishes unattended but perhaps something as robust as this method should have a minimum requirement of a 1GB RAM PC?

I alway thought that you needed vendor specific drivers for the reasons you state above - however my G9 uses the generic and all the default buttons work with generic, plus the dpi adjustment - and get this, with the latest mouseware (at least for the G9), the default install routine uses the generic MS driver! You have to manually select to insist on using the logitech driver.

v13.5 out, not official (yet). For those who like to mod ahead of the nightlies

http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20lan-wan.htm

Like I posted earlier, you do not need a RAID 0 array to see the speed benefits of copying to the HD first.

My test w/ DriverPack Graphics A was on a laptop 7200rpm drive, which by many standards is slow compared to a nominal desktop drive.

I'm in. At home I've been 100% vista 64bit. I've had some quirks with the available integration tools + WAIK so this is something I want to tackle.

Logitech G5 Laser gets the yellow exclamation point in device manager with current HID pack. Noticed the driver provided is 4.60, setpoint for this mouse is now at v4.70. I'll try the new driver to see if that fixes.

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Input Devices
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HID\VID_045E&PID_00B4&MI_00\7&2E835FE5&0&0000               : HID Keyboard Device
HID\VID_045E&PID_00B4&MI_01&COL01\7&AAC2223&0&0000          : HID-compliant consumer control device
HID\VID_045E&PID_00B4&MI_01&COL02\7&AAC2223&0&0001          : HID-compliant device
HID\VID_046D&PID_C049&MI_00\7&1693DD53&0&0000               : Logitech HID-compliant G5 Laser Mouse
HID\VID_046D&PID_C049&MI_01&COL01\7&363C115&0&0000          : HID-compliant device
HID\VID_046D&PID_C049&MI_01&COL02\7&363C115&0&0001          : HID-compliant device
6 matching device(s) found.

Let me make it very clear - you absolutely, positively, unequivocally, unconditionally MUST copy any archive to the hard drive first before extracting (high or low compression). You DO NOT WANT to ever start extracting an archive full of millions of little files DIRECTLY off a CD. Your grandchildren will be gray by then

Extracting zip files, let alone ultra-compressed 7z's, directly from DVD/CD can be much slower than first copying the compressed file to HD then uncompressing. The overhead from the horrid seek times is the wrench in the wheels I think. Copying files over in a sequential file transfer, especially large files, from disc does not take as big a hit.

Try it yourself with DriverPack Graphics A

On my rig, it takes approximately 41 seconds for DriverPack Graphics A to decompress directly from DVD to hard drive.
Copying DriverPack Graphics A first from DVD to disc takes a mere 4 seconds, and then only 20 seconds to decompress. The time has almost been cut in HALF!!

DVD/CD is still a profoundly slow medium.

I might be mistaken in thinking mass_storage for intel was more complex. On the surface, DP MS is only three-tiered to segment the intel generations. DP_G_B has four already?

I've found that Dell PE's are very sensitive to drivers outside their own releases, particularly intel graphics IGP (GMA) and broadcom NICs.

I have no clue why Dell ditched integrated Intel and went with broadcom netxtreme for their servers. Intel NICs have been, are, and will be the best server NIC out there (at least in the 10/100/1000 ethernet realm). Broadcom are crap interfaces and adapter teaming is still a gamble with their latest driver releases.

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