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Originally Posted by Grin'n'pick
Did you, or any of the other users, have to do a lot of manual driver installations and have you experienced many problems in those areas?
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I had to download and install one driver for my Cannon Scanner. Other than that Vista did a much better job of finding, updating and installing my hardware and associated drivers than XP did the first time I installed it.
In fact, Vista found one really obscure thing that I had really had no expectation that it would find.
This computer is new enough (18 months) that it came without a parallel printer port. I had installed a PCI card to attach an old printer to the computer. Not a very common card at that. Vista found the card, voided the XP driver, got a new driver from the Internet, installed the card, recognized the 10 year old printer and got a driver for that and installed that as well.
All as a standard part of the OS install.
Anyone thinking of upgrading to Vista though should go to the Windows website and download the Upgrade Adviser program. After running that program it will point out any hardware issues or driver problems to correct BEFORE attempting the upgrade.