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  1. Microsoft Advances Rust as First-Class for Windows Drivers with crates and cargo-wdk

    Microsoft’s move to make Rust a first-class option for Windows driver development crystallizes a long-running strategy: reduce the class of memory-safety bugs that have dominated high-severity Windows vulnerabilities by shifting low-level, performance-sensitive code toward a language designed...
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    • Forum: Windows News

  2. Rust for Windows Drivers: Progress, Tooling, and Production Readiness Challenges

    Microsoft's effort to let device-driver developers use Rust has moved from research and experiments into tangible tooling and samples, but the path to production-ready Windows drivers written in Rust remains long and cautious — working prototypes and Microsoft-backed crates exist, CodeQL now...
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  3. Windows 7 Cannot get sound in Windows 7 - No audio devices are installed

    Just installed Windows 7. After install everything was working fine until i noticed that i had no sound. It is a AMD Athlon x64 Dual Sound works in XP, has these sound drivers Yamaha DS1 WDM HD Audio Render I tried finding the above drivers, but no luck. System info...
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    • amd asus audio drivers installation sound troubleshooting ultimate wdm windows 7
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    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 Desktop Manager Fails in S3 mode.

    When I "sleep" my machine in S-3 mode; upon waking, WDM quits and reverts to Basic mode, losing my prefered window color setting. Only a full re-start wil fix it! When I set the BIOS to use S-1 suspend type, sleep/wake-up does not cause the problem - my window color setting is retained - however...
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    • basic mode bios color desktop gray machine manager power problem restart settings sleep suspend themes user experience user preferences wake up wdm windows
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support