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On October 4, 2024, Microsoft officially rolled out the highly anticipated Windows 11 2024 Update, also known as 24H2, alongside the latest LTSC (Long-Term Servicing Channel) version. Given that we are ushering in a decade that thrives on rapid technological advances, this release aims to...

Microsoft is changing the way hardware drivers work on the Windows 10 (1809 and onwards) platform. Hardware running on these operating systems can use Windows Modern Drivers (also known as Universal Windows Drivers - UWDs). As from November 2018 Intel will roll out drivers using the Windows...

Turns out you can control the delivery of universal drivers from Windows Update on your Windows 10 systems. read more Continue reading...

This week at WinHEC, we were able to talk to silicon, hardware, and device partners about the advances we are making in Windows 10 to simplify building Windows devices, drivers, and apps. Some of the key advances we disclosed this week include: The Windows 10 device platform allows IHVs to...

Lexmark Printer Problems I have a Lexmark Printer Optra E310. I am having problems getting it connected to my laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium. I know it can use the driver Lexmark Printer Optra E312. I downloaded the Lexmark Printer Driver Profile Management Tool. I do not know...

Hi guys im hoping someone here might be able to help me, im at a loss with the problem we are having and MS dont have a clue what it is. Problem: We have around 15 printers on site all running off the network, static IP's the usual setup. For some reason since we have upgraded the computers to...

Having moved to a Windows 7 laptop from my good old XP desktop I continued to use my Kyocera FS820 laser printer via USB for all my printing needs with no problems at all. During this five months I several times reloaded Win7 from either the recovery module on hard disk or from the System...

Hi I hope that you will be able to help. I have a PCI modem fax card that I need in order to send and recieve faxes. the modem has a RS56-PCI chip. all my efforts to find a win7 driver for it (driverguide and other sites) were in vain. the driver that I've found were for older OS, including XP...

I have read about this happening a few times but none of the threads seem to have helped. I have an HP m7170n desktop and I installed Win 7 32-bit. When I run device manager on the PC it shows two errors under other devices, one "ethernet controller" and the other "multimedia video...