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ludi wrote:Sounds like you may have a broken default association for the option that chooses the default behavior when clicking on a CD, and it is defaulting to either "do nothing" or else trying to open AUTORUN.INF and then failing silently. If you just want to see the contents, what happens if you right-click on the CD icon and select the option "Open in new window" (or however that works out in French)? Can you now see the same directory structure as the Command Prompt window?
ludi wrote:If you just want to see the contents, what happens if you right-click on the CD icon and select the option "Open in new window" (or however that works out in French)? Can you now see the same directory structure as the Command Prompt window?
DancinJack wrote:I don't want to derail the thread or deride your process for setting up your computer, but you really shouldn't use the setup CDs that come with motherboards or any other computer product unless absolutely necessary. Just download drivers from the sites that you require.
Yan wrote:DancinJack wrote:I don't want to derail the thread or deride your process for setting up your computer, but you really shouldn't use the setup CDs that come with motherboards or any other computer product unless absolutely necessary. Just download drivers from the sites that you require.
I can't download anything until I have a driver for the network card.
FireGryphon wrote:I usually use another computer to download drivers and stick 'em on a USB stick.
FireGryphon wrote:Are you sure all of the connections were inserted correctly when you replaced the motherboard? You can go back and check. Also, maybe remove some other drives or things that you don't need. There's always the off chance that one item is causing a conflict somewhere that the new mobo can't handle until the correct drivers are installed.
just brew it! wrote:Yeah, the Windows driver stack for optical drives is a bizarre beast. I have vague recollections of various issues arising because of problems with "upper filter" and "lower filter" drivers, and performing manual registry surgery to fix it. Haven't had to deal with that sort of nonsense in years (what with optical drives being less widely used in general, and my migration to Linux).
DancinJack wrote:just brew it! wrote:Yeah, the Windows driver stack for optical drives is a bizarre beast. I have vague recollections of various issues arising because of problems with "upper filter" and "lower filter" drivers, and performing manual registry surgery to fix it. Haven't had to deal with that sort of nonsense in years (what with optical drives being less widely used in general, and my migration to Linux).
I'm not sure about optical drives because I haven't had one for years now, but the Windows 10 driver situation is really weird. It wants to install it's choice for everything, even things like video cards, and if you turn that setting off it will stop auto grabbing drivers for things like USB devices you plug in. It's very stupid. It does a really great job of getting drivers for things that Windows used to be awful at, but I DON'T WANT WINDOWS OVERRIDING MY CHOICE FOR A GRAPHICS CARD DRIVER MMMMMMMKAY?
FireGryphon wrote:Im still using 8.1 with a Start Menu add on, and every time I hear an anecdote like this I cringe at the thought of actually upgrading to 10. Is there some grand article that contains every hack and tweak that’ll make Windows 10 behave?
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FireGryphon wrote:
Im still using 8.1 with a Start Menu add on, and every time I hear an anecdote like this I cringe at the thought of actually upgrading to 10. Is there some grand article that contains every hack and tweak that’ll make Windows 10 behave?
Aranarth wrote:FireGryphon wrote:
Im still using 8.1 with a Start Menu add on, and every time I hear an anecdote like this I cringe at the thought of actually upgrading to 10. Is there some grand article that contains every hack and tweak that’ll make Windows 10 behave?
Windows 10 really is not that bad. Especially with the last two major updates.
FireGryphon wrote:Im still using 8.1 with a Start Menu add on, and every time I hear an anecdote like this I cringe at the thought of actually upgrading to 10. Is there some grand article that contains every hack and tweak that’ll make Windows 10 behave?
ludi wrote:95% of the time it works every time. I can't tell you it will work better than a Start Menu-hacked Windows 8, but it definitely won't be worse in the short term, and it will be better supported in the long run.
ludi wrote:The one exception is if you managed to get an early version of Windows 8.0 running with Media Center, and chose to keep it instead of upgrading. There's no exact replacement for that combination.
FireGryphon wrote:DancinJack wrote:just brew it! wrote:Yeah, the Windows driver stack for optical drives is a bizarre beast. I have vague recollections of various issues arising because of problems with "upper filter" and "lower filter" drivers, and performing manual registry surgery to fix it. Haven't had to deal with that sort of nonsense in years (what with optical drives being less widely used in general, and my migration to Linux).
I'm not sure about optical drives because I haven't had one for years now, but the Windows 10 driver situation is really weird. It wants to install it's choice for everything, even things like video cards, and if you turn that setting off it will stop auto grabbing drivers for things like USB devices you plug in. It's very stupid. It does a really great job of getting drivers for things that Windows used to be awful at, but I DON'T WANT WINDOWS OVERRIDING MY CHOICE FOR A GRAPHICS CARD DRIVER MMMMMMMKAY?
Im still using 8.1 with a Start Menu add on, and every time I hear an anecdote like this I cringe at the thought of actually upgrading to 10. Is there some grand article that contains every hack and tweak that’ll make Windows 10 behave?
DancinJack wrote:It just has its quirks like any other OS and all versions of Windows previous to it.
Aranarth wrote:I think all OS's have their own quirks just some are more glaring with WTF?! moments than others.
OS/2 and Windows ME are shining examples of that.