hardware

Computers, devices, electrical components.

Use old printers in Vista 20

How to Use Your Old Printers in Vista

Do we throw away our old printers when we can no longer use them with a new operating system? Replace them with a compatible printer with active support? If the old printer is working fine, then preferably not of course. Even if no driver for Vista is available, we can tell Vista to install it anyway and hope everything works!

How To Install A Non-Plug And Play Device Using the Add Hardware Wizard in MS Windows XP Professional 0

How To Install A Non-Plug And Play Device Using the Add Hardware Wizard in MS Windows XP Professional

Adding hardware to your computer will normally result in Windows XP automatically detecting your new device and installing the required drivers for it to work. If your hardware is not automatically detected by Windows XP, it could be that it is not Plug and Play compatible. In that case you need to manually install the new hardware using the Add Hardware Wizard in the Control Panel.

View All Devices in Windows XP Device Manager 2

View All Devices in Windows XP Device Manager

When trying to analyze hardware or device problems, you might not be able to see the removable devices in the Windows XP device manager. It is possible to tweak Windows XP to change this behavior, and see all hardware devices in the device manager.

Windows Vista Device Drivers 4

Windows Vista Device Drivers

Windows Vista has a new device driver model. Installing and troubleshooting Vista device drivers is a little different. Find out what changed and how to install, update and troubleshoot Windows Vista device drivers.

PC Devices 12

Device Drivers Explained

Everybody who works with computers must have run into the term device driver at least once. More often than not that will be in a situation where there is a problem with a device...