Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Vista Printing. For hardware-specific issues, please use the Windows Vista Hardware forum. Sign in to vote. I was able to add this printer from the built in drivers supplied by Windows.
If "gold driver " is some sort of application that purports to find drivers for you, throw it away and follow Smittychat's advice to go to the manufacturer's web site. Drivers should only be downloaded from the web site of your computer manufacturer especially for laptops or from the web site of the manufacturer of the specific hardware device.
And why haven't you installed sp3 long ago you won't be able to use Windows Update to get the many necessary security patches for XP until you do? Like I said before I do not know what you mean by "window xp sp2". Is there some mixed up year numbering with regard to Office?
Regardless, you must use XP drivers for the XP operating system. If you use drivers for other operating systems the best you can hope for is that they refuse to install.
The worst case is that they will render XP unbootable if they do install. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. I've merged all three threads. What you can do providing your hard drive is large enough is dual boot Windows XP with Windows 7. Windows 7 drivers are for Windows 7 units. Windows XP is an older platform and as in the sticks stated you may end up messing up your system.
You can however install a Windows XP driver to Windows 7 using compatibility mode. A lot of older hardware and software that worked with Microsoft Windows XP will no longer function under Windows 7 because of some fundamental changes to the Windows operating system. Although many manufacturers have released updated drivers, some have failed to update their software for compatibility with Windows 7. Forums Software Windows XP. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
Previous Next. BrandtP Distinguished. Apr 7, 0 18, 0. I'm about to install a Creative sound card using XP.
Typically the Creative installers will ask me to point it on the right path which is not alway successful. Where are the drivers located in Windows? Also, is it a known issue that XP cannot install the driver for the gameport, or am I just crazy? I couldn't get it to install right on 98 SE and I've got a thing about the exclamation point in my device manager.
Dec 31, 2, 0 19, 0. Can you choose let Windows automatically search its drivers in my experience Win XP does much better job than earlier versions.
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