When I plug in my new USB PC Card into my laptop, Windows XP Pro,
automatically installs the drivers for it. However, I do not want to use
those drivers as the device does not work properlly with them.

How can I have windows ask me what drivers I want to use.

Or, how can I change the drivers already intalled (when I ask it to roll
back, or update drivers, it says it cannot find new drivers in the selected
location (cd drive where I have my drivers). (my drivers are older).


Thanks,

Christian Santillo

You could try going to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers Folder. Create a new
folder there and move all the
drivers that start with usb, there's about eleven of them into the new
folder. Restart and see if XP allows
you to load your usb drivers.
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> When I plug in my new USB PC Card into my laptop, Windows XP Pro,
> automatically installs the drivers for it. However, I do not want to use
> those drivers as the device does not work properlly with them.
>
> How can I have windows ask me what drivers I want to use.
>
> Or, how can I change the drivers already intalled (when I ask it to roll
> back, or update drivers, it says it cannot find new drivers in the
selected
> location (cd drive where I have my drivers). (my drivers are older).
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christian Santillo
>
>

I've tried that and Windows has File Protection so it moves them back...


"Rich Barry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:#(E-Mail Removed)...
> You could try going to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers Folder. Create a
new
> folder there and move all the
> drivers that start with usb, there's about eleven of them into the new
> folder. Restart and see if XP allows
> you to load your usb drivers.
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > When I plug in my new USB PC Card into my laptop, Windows XP Pro,
> > automatically installs the drivers for it. However, I do not want to use
> > those drivers as the device does not work properlly with them.
> >
> > How can I have windows ask me what drivers I want to use.
> >
> > Or, how can I change the drivers already intalled (when I ask it to roll
> > back, or update drivers, it says it cannot find new drivers in the
> selected
> > location (cd drive where I have my drivers). (my drivers are older).
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Christian Santillo
> >
> >
>
>

Christian, did you try renaming the Driver Cache folder?
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> When I plug in my new USB PC Card into my laptop, Windows XP Pro,
> automatically installs the drivers for it. However, I do not want to use
> those drivers as the device does not work properlly with them.
>
> How can I have windows ask me what drivers I want to use.
>
> Or, how can I change the drivers already intalled (when I ask it to roll
> back, or update drivers, it says it cannot find new drivers in the
selected
> location (cd drive where I have my drivers). (my drivers are older).
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christian Santillo
>
>

Yes. I have.
"Rich Barry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:#f#(E-Mail Removed)...
> Christian, did you try renaming the Driver Cache folder?
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > When I plug in my new USB PC Card into my laptop, Windows XP Pro,
> > automatically installs the drivers for it. However, I do not want to use
> > those drivers as the device does not work properlly with them.
> >
> > How can I have windows ask me what drivers I want to use.
> >
> > Or, how can I change the drivers already intalled (when I ask it to roll
> > back, or update drivers, it says it cannot find new drivers in the
> selected
> > location (cd drive where I have my drivers). (my drivers are older).
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Christian Santillo
> >
> >
>
>

You can temporarily disable the file protection by adding the driver to the
excluded file list in ...system32\Restore\filelist.xml (I don't recall if a
reboot is required). Once the new driver is replaced, removing it from the
excluded list will enable file protection until the next Windows Update.

- Robert -

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> I've tried that and Windows has File Protection so it moves them back...
>
>
> "Rich Barry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:#(E-Mail Removed)...
>> You could try going to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers Folder. Create a
> new
>> folder there and move all the
>> drivers that start with usb, there's about eleven of them into the
>> new
>> folder. Restart and see if XP allows
>> you to load your usb drivers.
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > When I plug in my new USB PC Card into my laptop, Windows XP Pro,
>> > automatically installs the drivers for it. However, I do not want to
>> > use
>> > those drivers as the device does not work properlly with them.
>> >
>> > How can I have windows ask me what drivers I want to use.
>> >
>> > Or, how can I change the drivers already intalled (when I ask it to
>> > roll
>> > back, or update drivers, it says it cannot find new drivers in the
>> selected
>> > location (cd drive where I have my drivers). (my drivers are older).
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Christian Santillo
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>