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Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer

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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. 
>
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  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 micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-01 18:10 -0400
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              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
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