Recent content by tonightslastsong

Just to be clear, did you go ahead and install the driver for the card reader, or did you leave it out (like I've been doing)?

Yes, I would expect that you could make it do that. However, Windows will probably remember that you intentionally got rid of the hardware, so it may not automatically say "Hey! I found new hardware!". You might have to explicitly check for new hardware, or explore the Device Manager to see if...

Well, when I switched to the official version (not the beta or RC anymore), I didn't have the balls to install the driver in the first place, so to this day I haven't done it. The reader seems to work great without the driver, but I do notice that it'll bottom-out on transfer speeds sometimes...

Final verdict: The Visual Studio runtime package gave me a bluescreen for some reason, but it actually seems that my built-in SD card reader went to hell at some point. System Restore did nothing for the problem once my main problem started. I had to open up the Device Manager and go...

Turns out, this is part of the Control Panel. It's pretty obscure, so I hope they make it a little more front-page on the Troubleshooting throughout Windows. If you go to the Control Panel, and under "System and Security", click on the sub-link "Find and fix problems". You then have to use...

PS -- it looks kind of like a video driver problem, but usually a video driver glitch doesn't bring down the whole computer!

I get a Blue Screen on occasion when I have the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Runtime installed. I have no idea as to why, but that runtime has been the source of all my woes, it seems. My issues seem to have been fixed as soon as I uninstalled that thing. I'm not sure if the...

Started happening again. The only things I've installed recently are the multitouch driver (which I don't suspect to be the culprit, given the timing), and Microsoft Expression Blend 2 trial. I suspect the latter, but only by the components it seems to install. I'm pretty sure it tosses...

I'm in complete agreement with you. This laptop is a HP-manufactured one, so I figured I'd have my best 64-bit experience with it, rather than building my own and being stranded without any professional driver makers to back me up. (Ironically, the computer that I *did* build is doing better...

I agree with you about starting with the drivers. I'm just ready for anything as I install other things, such as Explorer shell extensions, etc, as found in shared component of Adobe products. For the sake of speedy reformatting (which I seem to do frequently these days), I download the real...

Well.. here's an update. I seriously could not live with the behavior, so I did reformat (again... 3rd time) and reinstall. The disc I have has successfully installed on 3 other machines without troubles, so I don't think it has anything to do with that. It's official, off of MSDN, and not...

Ps... PS: System event logs report nada. It's like Windows doesn't even know there's an issue. I've also done profiling with the tools built into the OS, and I find nothing that really seems abnormal.

SOLVED: Can't sleep, restart, shutdown; Explorer won't refresh (Solution on last post, but the short version is that I had to use the Device Manager to "Uninstall the hardware" for my built-in SD card reader, so that Windows just forgets that the hardware exists. I can't use it anymore, but...