re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 3:45 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jurgster (3 messages posted) the install process of windows involves only the win folder of the cd. the remainder of the cd is just extras provided by MS like a demo and drivers. after installation of windows it will be required 2 install drivers that are needed by yr system that are not supported by install.if all driver were 2 be installed during setup u could be lookin at a takeup of .5 - 1GB in hardspace with useless PNP drv´s. tell me if im wrong pro´s. Jurgster_is@hotmail.com On Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 2:03 am, Tom Adams wrote: >I have a question about Troubleshooting >Driver Problems: >In the Device Manager, clicking on a device, then properties--drivers, shows a list >of driver files. Some file names are in parenthesis. A friend showed me that these >drivers have not been installed but can be extracted from the Win98 CDROM into windows/system >folder and the parenthesis disappears. Further, the files can then be found to be >in place using the FIND process in the Start menu. My question is twofold: Why >don't the drivers get installed to begin with? And should this be messed with if >there is no problem? I went through the entire Device Manager and "corrected" all >the .vxd and .dll files which were in parenthesis and see no difference, unless >that is why my system hangs frequently. I plan to do a complete reinstallation to >correct some bugs but cannot find any reference to the drivers having parenthesis >around them. Any help would be great. Thanks from a Newbie. > Written in response to: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' (Tom Adams: Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 2:03 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' (Tom Adams: Thu, Mar 14, 2002, 2:03 am) re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' (Jurgster: Thu, Mar 14, 2002, 3:45 am) re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' (Bobstur: Thu, Mar 14, 2002, 4:09 am) if it aint broke don't fix it... (Colin: Thu, Mar 14, 2002, 4:31 am) re: if it aint broke don't fix it... (darlene : Fri, Jan 31, 2003, 3:58 pm) re: if it aint broke don't fix it... (Donald: Thu, Jul 10, 2003, 12:32 pm) re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' (Tom Adams: Thu, Mar 14, 2002, 2:48 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum