How to make your hardware drivers work

Firstly I will apologize in advance for the bad camera work. Anyway, if you've ever got some old hardware for your computer and found that the installation software that came with it won't work on Windows XP, this little trick may help, I used it to get my modem working on my computer, the installation software is not XP compatible, but I used this trick to make it work with my XP computer. And before you mention it, yes, comodo anti virus is already installed on the computer, I installed that from a disk, because I don't want my computer being infected with millions of viruses as soon as it accesses the web for the first time.

Insert the installation disk, but do not use the installer.

Go to start, run then type in "devmgmt.msc" to bring up the Device Manager

Any hardware that does not have the drivers installed will have a yellow ? next to it.

Right click on the device, then click "update driver"

When it asks to connect to the internet, click "no, not this time"

Now it will ask where to install from, so just select "install the software automatically"

It should then find and list all the available drivers from the disk, so just select the first one

Now it should install the drivers and the hardware will be ready to use.

This does work on windows XP, trust me, I installed my Modem and My Graphics Card Drivers this way (my graphics card isn't old, it's actually very new, but the disk is a little scratched and won't autostart), don't ask me if this works in Vista, I really don't know as I never used Vista.

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• XP
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• Tricks

[ercebi1996]

trust mouse for windows 7 helppp !!!

[alimkanji]

Can u please help me finding UMAX 6SE driver for windows xp

Thanks alot

[sunnyrepairs]

Update ur sound driver and use reginout

[VisedGoldenBoy]

@ciprian9000 DUDE same man fuk every time i open my file itr says folders empty but i kno it aint :\

[ciprian9000]

does this thing work in vista(i've got XP sound card :( .)

[TheSuperBloger]

cool it worked some how my network adapter wasnt working and i found problem thx.

[KhalidKing1992]

evrytime I click on to update my driver it says the hardware was not installed because the wizard did not find any soft ware plz help me

[Films4You]

NTL, or Virgin Media as they are now), is better via a LAN port, if you have one.

P.S. I sent you a link, (at you YouTube account), to a JoyStick Driver, did you get it?