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A true case example of why windows sucks

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hm_murdock:
nobody. because nobody provides drivers anymore! they say "USE GENERIC WINDOWS DRIVER"

but... WINDOWS DON'T DO THAT.

a friend of mine has a Lite On CD burner that WILL NOT WORK anymore with XP, because she

1) Installed "EZ CD Creator", a damnably shitty app... then

2) uninstalled it properly. She and Windows both did their parts... but part of the uninstall was for it to REMOVE YOUR CD BURNER DRIVERS!

Well, no actual drivers exist for her model of CD burner. What's worse, is that EZ CD Creator actually removed the entire drivers.cab file! XP Wants to get it back off the CD... but, well... you know!

WMD:

quote:Originally posted by Jimmy don't give a shit about MS:
PEECEES ARE SO GOODE BECOS U CAN MAK THEME OUT OF TEH PARTES NOT LIKE TEH MACKINTOSSH THAT U HAF TO BYE FROM TEH STOR!!!!111LOLOOLOLOLOLOL
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I love it when Jimmy does that.  :D

 
quote:Don't use 16-bit drivers for stuff.
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He wasn't.  Or at least, not trying to.

Shrub:
And the end of the story...

  After about a month of trying I just gave up with the realization that windows had gone far down enough to delete the base dos drivers (which I had installed ages ago as a backup), that fact, combined with the fact that my floppy drive had a catastrophic internal failure that resulted in me removing the disk that was in it at the time with a vacuum led to my decision to get rid of the computer and actually buy a new one.

This story is provided for entertainment value and philisophical discussion.

By the way, I have had a modem manual tell me to download the drivers before.

WMD:
Oh BTW...you could've used a 16-bit DOS CDROM driver temporarily, in order to get the 32-bit one.

rklesla:

quote:Originally posted by Shrub:
Now, the real problem, is that The only way in which to install a new cdrom driver, is from the windows 95 cdrom.
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For one.  Always copy cabs to HDD, then install from there.  That gets rid of the CD crap.  2nd, there are a billion cd drivers on floppy's from the internet.  You should always have one of these stashed away.

Microsoft is shitty, but common sense tells you to be logical.

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