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Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer

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On 4/1/2025 6:10 PM, micky wrote:
> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on 10 Mar 2025 10:21:51 GMT, Frank Slootweg
> <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> 
> First I want to say that I was finally able to reply to your post in the
> Win11 group in the thread "Re: Why Combine taskbar buttons and Hide
> labels are combined?" and I give my reasons why it took so long. Because
> your last post was Feb 26th I was afraid you might not see it.
> 
>> micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> But I really do appreciate your detailed answer. I have a backup from
>>> which I could probably find the drivers, but if I die, whoever gets the
>>>   computer probably won't get the backups along with it. So he could end
>>> up in the situation I fear.
>>
>>   Instead of all your complaining, why don't you just put the (install
>> versions) of the drivers on the laptop? 'Problem' solved.
> 
> a I don't  know which of the files in my computer are drivers, and if I
> figure that out, I won't know what they are drivers for , and other
> people in my shoes know even less than I do.  I suppose I could go
> through every Properites/Drivers box in Device Manager, make a list, and
> find and save all those, but that would take a lot of time, compared to
> going to a manufacturer's web page, and dl'ing all the drivers there.
> 
>>   Elsewhere you mention that the harddisk failed before anyboody had
>> bothered to make backup of it and hence of the Acer recovery partition.
>> That was hardly Acer's fault, was it?
> 
> No it wasn't.
> 
> ##
> 
> Just like if you crash your Buick it's not GM's fault, but you'd still
> like to deal with a company that stocks repair parts. (It's not an easy
> comparison because car makers do run out of some parts after a few
> years, and I hear they destroy their remaining stock not long after
> that, but otoh car parts take up a lot of space (esp. compared to
> digital files), and after-market manufacturers continue to make parts
> long after car makers don't stock them.   That compares to your
> suggestion to go to MS for drivers, but the difference is that mechanics
> and almost everyone else know about autoparts store, and only the
> educated know what to do when a driver is not on the computer
> manufacturer's page. There wasn't even a suggestion of what to do on the
> Acer so-called support page.
> 
>>   As to other brands doing things differently: As Winston mentioned,
>> Acer's practice is quite common. The in-support period of a product is
>> the time to get the brand/model specific software and documentation. No
>> sense in whingeing long after the fact.
> 
> So if you find your expensive jewelry has been stolen, probably by a
> house guest years ago, there is no sense in complaining about it?
> 
> If by "sense" you mean the ability to be recompensed, the situation is
> the same that computer users are in, they won't get any, but if by
> sense, you mean having a plan to buy a different brand of computer next
> time, that's equivalent to not letting the same house guest into your
> home.   Those are both sensible plans, and all I said is I wasn't going
> to buy Acer again.
> 
> (I had to look up whinge.)
> 
>>   FYI, I checked for my previous 2015 HP Pavilion 15-p142nd laptop,
>> which came with Windows 8/8.1 and the HP Support site also no longer has
>> software for that laptop, so similar to Acer.
> 
> Again, disappointing.   These old computers can still do many things.
> It's  not like they are runing win3.1  We shouldn't be even somewhat
> pushed to scrap them.
> 
>>
>>   Finally, why is this crossposted to the Windows 11 group?
> 
> Probably by mistake.  Sorry.   Although people with win11 will also face
> this same problem in what I think is too short a time.
>>
>> [...]
Look here: C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\"

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Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-08 10:28 -0500
  Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer Marco Moock <mm+solani@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-03-08 16:38 +0100
    Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-08 11:58 -0500
      Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-08 13:55 -0500
  Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-09 13:41 -0400
    Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-03-09 12:31 -0700
      Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-09 22:01 -0400
        Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-03-09 19:17 -0700
          Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-10 20:19 -0400
        Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-03-10 10:21 +0000
          Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-03-10 11:57 -0700
          Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-01 18:10 -0400
            Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer Zaidy036 <Zaidy036@air.isp.spam> - 2025-04-01 20:27 -0400
              Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-02 02:57 -0400
                Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-02 04:26 -0400
                Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-04-02 17:48 -0700
            Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-04-02 12:28 +0000
    Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-09 15:35 -0400
      Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-09 22:07 -0400
  Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com> - 2025-03-11 09:33 +0000
    Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-11 12:38 -0400

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