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    Windows 11 Driver and Metadata Modernization: What You Need to Know for 2025+

    Microsoft’s relentless drive to modernize Windows 11’s architecture is yielding another wave of changes—this time, reshaping the very foundations of hardware driver development and distribution. With sweeping impacts for device makers, IT professionals, and power users, the newly announced...
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    Upcoming Windows 11 Driver & Device Metadata Changes in 2025: What You Need to Know

    Major changes are on the horizon for Windows hardware driver development—a shift poised to impact not only device manufacturers and IT professionals, but millions of end users as Microsoft undertakes a significant revamp for the next generation of Windows 11. With the recent announcement...
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    Windows 7 modify inf files driver

    Hello, I happen to have a driver that only installs on XP. I want to be able to install it on Windows 7 x86, but it's not possible, since it doesn't recognize it. Do you know which part of the .inf I have to modify in order to install it? PD: I have done a compatibility installation and...
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    • compatibility driver driver signature inf files installation windows 7 windows xp x86
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  4. RayJayS1986

    Windows 10 Question about Chipset Drivers

    So I recently did a fresh install of windows, did NOT keep any files, wiped every drive. Upon installing Windows 10 version 1803, I installed all my drivers, and all was normal. In device manager I saw under system showing the proper things, including an Intel 300 series controller with (Z370)...
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    • chipset compatibility device manager driver installation drivers fresh install gaming gpu inf files intel 300 performance issues ram stuttering system configuration troubleshooting updates upgrading version 1803 version 1809 windows 10
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Sfc/Scannow cannot repair corrupt .inf and .nlp files

    I have run sfc/scannow in win 7, and have followed instructions to run sfc at boot in command prompt, but nothing has solved the errors. i have saved the file sfcdetails.txt to desktop, and have extracted only the problematic parts and saved it in another file problems.txt kindly check the file...
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    • boot issues boot partition command prompt corruption errors file extensions inf files laptop logs nlp files oem version repair scandisk sfc sp1 system drive system files troubleshooting windows 7
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 upgrades fail because of Intel driver

    Windows 7 upgrades fail because of Intel driver The best laid plans of mice and voles By Link Removed - Invalid URL Friday, 27 November 2009, 09:49 MICROSOFT MUST BE FURIOUS after software upgrades from Vista to Windows 7 failed on some machines because they had an Intel storage driver...
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    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Software
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    Windows 7 context menu issue

    I have two programs that install by adding themselves to the context menu. One is a rt clk on an INF file and then install. the other has an EXE file which installs it. The process works fine in XP and 32bit W7 --- but NOT 64bit W7. the information IS in the SHELLEX locations in the registry...
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    • 64bit compatibility context menu exe files inf files installation registry shellex troubleshooting windows 7
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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