Stand Alone Driverpack utility for all OS (XP, 2k3, 2k8, Vista, Win7) (Page 16 of 22)

OverFlow, stability is really great, but absolutely outdated packages make your driverpacks almost useless. A Year and sometimes more has gone since you updated driverpacks. And i do not understand this competition between you and Russian project.

@TechDud

Adding other languages would not be hard.  Could use a external file with different languages in it and could give a choice when tool is first started but would need others to help dev. the translations.  This way would keep the script smaller instead of adding to the script which would make it very long, thus slower.  As far as communicating, that would be an issue and google translate is not that good.  lol

Last edited by SteveDun (2013-10-26 10:35:39)

Hey guys, how about a gui created in java using netbeans?  I know others have tried with autoit but to tell the truth I really don't care for it.  I have been playing around with some java and think it might be a lot easier then c++ and better then autoit.  .  Just something for everyone to think about.

Last edited by SteveDun (2013-10-26 17:53:23)

Hi guys,
it's nostalgia, I know, but...
Late in november 2007, I wrote someting that had to get us to 2008.
(hmm. I had to look it up. it was in NEWS.)

It had my views on where sysprep and SAD and M1 XP were sorta not going to get along.
(in XP method one.. because M1 could do repair, and M2 could not/cannot do repair install)
(also because server drivers were not properly distinguished in XP (2003 drivers got loaded if scripted later if the driver writer made some error in its driver).
We had silicone hyll and some other HWID battles back then.

Today, it's UEFI.
The wrong choice made because you did not know you had one.

Hey, that sounds kinda haughty? (like in a from a hyll, if you get the pun.)
I dare you to use fave search engine.. be it duckduckgo, or google, or bing, or Norton...
My 3TB boot drive not showing more than 2TB, well, that gets you hits.

Driverpacks has members already familiar with the problem.
Erik, you are ubiquitous.
°-)
Since UEFI is mostly win7 and later, I got to tell you simple facts.

Testers in win 8 or 8.1 should be aware there is a workaround to having to enter the win 8 key (and that gives you 30 days to test)
I assume most testers know how to extract ISO, and rebuild, and a simple EI.CFG file in 'sources' will allow you to test instead of wasting a key from your precious technet/msdn ..whatever..  download.

The information is described in how to install windows 8 without key, and I am sure that THAT is easy to find.
The hard part will be for you guys.
How do we get best performance out of UEFI machines that are most likely set to use non UEFI...

How do we get full capacity from a 4TB drive WITHOUT having to use dummy driver that mimicks a second hard drive and leaves us with a 2TB boot.

Are you up to that?

the question here, posed as "BOTTOM LINE"
How can we query if chipset has UEFI in a machine that booted up in its default state (not using uefi at all while it could, or possibly legacy first when it could have UEFI first or only, but was not set that way...)

Last edited by Jaak (2013-11-01 16:07:14)

Hi Jeff, indeed, and perhaps too long.

the public saw me vanish somewhere in 2008 after a few great filtering jobs.
I should have tried to help more in your later TEAM work in filtering out super generics for XP after 2009, but hey, you were one of the team I explained to what I had done, and why, and how it made sense.
And, SOON after, I helped test the filter you wrote in dpBase (so that the repetitive driver writer caused release error findings I had discosed could be filtered out ""more easily"" (but could not be released untested.. somewhere 2009.)

And yes, somewhat later you saw me drop off the earth.
I still regret having done that, but I really had to.
You, above all people,  MUST know DriverPacks was not let go willy nilly.
At the moment I am retired, and after five years of different health issues (an accident that caused 10 months immobillty in between), I am what... not what I was.

I'm trying to catch up with my reading and get up to date so pardon my late response to some previous posts... Like many of us I too have checked SAM's site but I actually haven't used any of his drivers... in fact I find his site so damn confusing that's it's a bit painful. I always wondered what happened and why SAM seems to have "separated" or "isolated" his efforts from here... it seems like such a no brainer that the collaboration would be INVALUABLE to the drivers community. I also see no issue with this site maintaining tighter QC and less releases than them so again I don't see competition I see different goals and methodologies... which BOTH work.

@Jaak
I know you can use diskpart /s and output that to a txt file easily to determine GPT (UEFI) then search the txt file from the cmd.  Delete txt file when done.

Last edited by SteveDun (2013-11-05 16:15:05)

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Great, thanks for the info.

I don't agree with that approach to AV, though. Since different AVs catch different things, there can be threats that only one or two out of 5 AVs catch. Therefore, if this was a legit threat and my AV caught it, but I tested with another AV to make sure it was real, and that second AV didn't see a threat, it would be bad for me to say "Oh, I guess it was a false positive." That isn't necessarily the case. So be careful with that.

That's why I prefer checksum or word from the devs. Thanks for your input, though!

@ mr. smartepants,
When you get some time if you could send me some sort of logo you would like to use for the gui, I will try to put something together and create a rough draft so to speak of a gui for this great utility.

I don't think we have a logo.  I'm not an artist by any stretch.  My artistic abilities stop at stick-figures and even that is pushing it. 
Maybe something with opposing "d" & "p" (mirror images?)

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So if I understand this tool correctly ...

This is to easily and fully update your current computer systems drivers ?

Or is it to load up a huge driver base onto your machine so you can add new hardware at any time and have it auto installed ?

Reasoning & questions:

I have a goal of making an image of a Windows 7 64 Pro installation, that I can then transfer to other computers in my network.  Can this software allow my starting installation / image to have a full and current driver base (from driverpacks) that will give it maximum compatibility with different types of hardware ?  I have about 25 machines I'll be working with.  Both intel and amd, and of various ages (and components).

When going the route of just making an install iso to serve the same purpose,  have used other tools to try and integrate driverpacks into my current project Windows 7 Pro 64 install iso.  However its been problematic.  Any advice ?

TY very much for the advice and these projects !