Vista won't allow installation of unsigned drivers!

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January 2007 PC WORLD - buried in Scott Spanbauer's "VISTA: the upgrade"
article is this astonishing statement:

"... Vista won't let you install unsigned drivers that haven't been
through Microsoft's quality assurance process..."

I'm horrified. How do you feel?
 
ToolPackinMama said:
January 2007 PC WORLD - buried in Scott Spanbauer's "VISTA: the upgrade"
article is this astonishing statement:

"... Vista won't let you install unsigned drivers that haven't been
through Microsoft's quality assurance process..."

I'm horrified. How do you feel?
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glad to here it, they are the number one reason windows screws up in the first place.....eg sabrent
capture card...POS drivers that don't work properly and right away its MS this And MS
that........BS
 
January 2007 PC WORLD - buried in Scott Spanbauer's "VISTA: the upgrade"
article is this astonishing statement:

"... Vista won't let you install unsigned drivers that haven't been
through Microsoft's quality assurance process..."

I'm horrified. How do you feel?
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Far more intelligent than you because IT WILL allow you to install
unsigned drivers.
 
ToolPackinMama said:
January 2007 PC WORLD - buried in Scott Spanbauer's "VISTA: the upgrade"
article is this astonishing statement:

"... Vista won't let you install unsigned drivers that haven't been
through Microsoft's quality assurance process..."

I'm horrified. How do you feel?
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Well RC2 certainly lets you install unsigned drivers.

SteveH
 
Conor said:
Far more intelligent than you because IT WILL allow you to install
unsigned drivers.
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I'm not the one who wrote the article and had it published, pal.
 
ToolPackinMama said:
I'm not the one who wrote the article and had it published, pal.
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Conor's correct. Initial betas of Vista didn't allow installation
of unsigned drivers. MS changed that policy due to outcries
from software developers. And as one who used to qualify
drivers I can tell you the whole MS certification program is
a scam, and nothing but another profit center for MS. They
charge $10,000 to simply load your driver onto a test system.
 
JAD said:
glad to here it,
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But it's not true, fortunately.
they are the number one reason windows screws up in the first
place.....
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Windows 9x was the number one reason Windows screwed up in the first
place. But Microsoft defenders used to blame drivers for that too.
eg sabrent capture card...POS drivers that don't work
properly and right away its MS this And MS that........BS
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Being an experienced personal computer user, there have been lots of
times when I needed to install unsigned drivers.
 
As a "Professional" backuper, do not purely read the article from
microsoft. :)
It works from the other posts on the Internet.

Remember, do not blame the other person's posts without even answering
their questions.

"John Doe дµÀ£º
"
 
Conor's correct. Initial betas of Vista didn't allow installation
of unsigned drivers. MS changed that policy due to outcries
from software developers.
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Microsoft listening to anyone else these days is a pleasant
surprise.
And as one who used to qualify
drivers I can tell you the whole MS certification program is
a scam, and nothing but another profit center for MS. They
charge $10,000 to simply load your driver onto a test system.
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Given Windows XP, we (home users) now know that the operating system
can control programs unless maybe a particular program intentionally
misbehaves. Obviously it's not always "the driver's fault" like
defenders of Windows 9x always claimed, instead it was the very low
quality memory management of Windows 9x that caused the crashing.
 
Juila said:
As a "Professional" backuper,
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It's a no-brainer. Whenever you even think about fixing someone's
computer, the very first thing to do is make sure their data is
currently backed up.

It's the law.
 
Microsoft listening to anyone else these days is a pleasant surprise.
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Its more likely that MS initially did it the cautious way while Vista
was a child and are now confident enough to all unsigned drivers.
 
JAD said:
glad to here it, they are the number one reason windows screws up in the
first place.....eg sabrent
capture card...POS drivers that don't work properly and right away its MS
this And MS
that........BS
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It's "hear!" ...and by the way "you're correct," but "your car" ...drives me
crazy fishing through the grammar.

J
 
I'm horrified. How do you feel?
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I was a beta tester for 3 versions of Vista.
There was a DOS level hack around the Vista
Security which let me install about anything.
Didn't work, of course. Probably still doesn't.
Their update emails said that Vista was going
to have XP compatibility in the final version.
I found the "Vista Compatibility in XP" hacks
really amusing. They did work. Heh! Some guy
got the crap sued out of him for doing that, too.
He actually FIXED Vista, and I got the stuff
and it made XP look and run just like Vista
.... actually, I mean look like Vista, and run
a lot better .. like XP.

johns
 
Conor's correct. Initial betas of Vista didn't allow installation
of unsigned drivers. MS changed that policy due to outcries
from software developers.
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Oh, good. I feel better.
 
I'm not the one who wrote the article and had it published, pal.
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So? You're the one who posted it as fact and made ther statement "I'm
horrified" so obviously you believed it.
 
Windows 9x was the number one reason Windows screwed up in the first
place. But Microsoft defenders used to blame drivers for that too.
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Because a lot of the time that was the case. The rest of the time was
shitty application programming.
 
Conor said:
Because a lot of the time that was the case. The rest of the time
was shitty application programming.
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Typical Microsoft defender nonsense.

Try explaining to a Windows XP user why he can run the same programs
(and worse) without crashing the system.

Face it, Windows 9x stunk.
 
Typical Microsoft defender nonsense.
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We'll see...
Try explaining to a Windows XP user why he can run the
same programs (and worse) without crashing the system.
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Because it doesnt let bad drivers and bad apps do as much damage.
Face it, Windows 9x stunk.
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Face it, there were plenty of shitty drivers and apps around then.
 
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