thinkpad pm, windows media player

[Guest]

Hi,

I ahave a ibm thinnkpad. Recently i updated using microsoft windows update
site. It showed to critical updates available, but there were a few optional
updates in hardware section. I thought these updates would boost my hardware
performance & i appliedd the updates. Now its worse than before. My
thinnkpad r40e monitor would turn off if i press the corresponding key, but
fails to remain turned off. It automatically turns itself on after a few sec.
Previously the turn off monitor would works now it fails to work correctly. I
feel the update is buggy.

I want windows media player to minimise to taskbar when i click on minimise
button. Sometimes it does this automatically, sometimes it doesn't do that.
How do i turn on this feature. I searched in the option in media player but
couldn't find anything relevant. I am using media player 10.0 .

with regards,
murali

PS: I am using windows xp home ed. sp2

 

[Rock]

Hi,

I ahave a ibm thinnkpad. Recently i updated using microsoft windows update
site. It showed to critical updates available, but there were a few optional
updates in hardware section. I thought these updates would boost my hardware
performance & i appliedd the updates. Now its worse than before. My
thinnkpad r40e monitor would turn off if i press the corresponding key, but
fails to remain turned off. It automatically turns itself on after a few sec.
Previously the turn off monitor would works now it fails to work correctly. I
feel the update is buggy.

I want windows media player to minimise to taskbar when i click on minimise
button. Sometimes it does this automatically, sometimes it doesn't do that.
How do i turn on this feature. I searched in the option in media player but
couldn't find anything relevant. I am using media player 10.0 .

with regards,
murali

PS: I am using windows xp home ed. sp2

Don't get hardware driver updates from the windows update site. Only
update drivers if there is a problem with the system and you know or
believe the new driver will solve the problem or it has a new feature
that's really needed. If that's the case get the update from the device
manufacturer's web site or from your computer manufacturer's web site.

To resolve your issue go to device manager and roll back the driver
updates using the roll back feature. Right click on My Computer |
Properties | Hardware | Device Manager. Expand the section for the
device in question, double click on it, driver tab, then roll back driver.

For some info on this go to Start | Help and Support. Type roll back in
the search box, click on the Repair overview result, then "After
updating a device driver, you can log on, but the system is unstable."

 

[Guest]

Don't get hardware driver updates from the windows update site. Only
update drivers if there is a problem with the system and you know or
believe the new driver will solve the problem or it has a new feature
that's really needed. If that's the case get the update from the device
manufacturer's web site or from your computer manufacturer's web site.

To resolve your issue go to device manager and roll back the driver
updates using the roll back feature. Right click on My Computer |
Properties | Hardware | Device Manager. Expand the section for the
device in question, double click on it, driver tab, then roll back driver.

For some info on this go to Start | Help and Support. Type roll back in
the search box, click on the Repair overview result, then "After
updating a device driver, you can log on, but the system is unstable."

Hi,

Being a MVP, do you mean that u don't recomend driver's from microsoft Corp.
.. I thought drivers from microsoft would provide greater integration with OS
& hence better user experience. Am i wrong? Further i don't know what pm
driver means so i am not able to locate where the pm driver is. I tried
rollback for acpi, but it reports that "no driver has been backed up for this
device" with driver producer as Microsoft. And about minimising wmp to
taskbar??

regards,
ashwin

 

[Malke]

Being a MVP, do you mean that u don't recomend driver's from microsoft
Corp. . I thought drivers from microsoft would provide greater
integration with OS & hence better user experience. Am i wrong?
Further i don't know what pm driver means so i am not able to locate
where the pm driver is. I tried rollback for acpi, but it reports that
"no driver has been backed up for this device" with driver producer as
Microsoft. And about minimising wmp to taskbar??

Repeat after me: do not install drivers from Windows Update. Most
particularly you should not do this if you have a laptop. Laptops have
proprietary hardware, drivers, and software. You should only be getting
drivers from IBM (now Lenovo). In fact, if you go to the Thinkpad
support site, you'll find a very good program which looks for updates
for your system.

You need to rollback whatever drivers you installed from WU and then
leave things alone unless you are having problems. You've messed up
your power management even worse than it was. If your laptop was
randomly shutting off, your first step should have been to call Lenovo
tech support because that is usually indicative of a hardware problem.
You should do that now.

Malke

 

[Rock]

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Hi,

Being a MVP, do you mean that u don't recomend driver's from microsoft Corp.
. I thought drivers from microsoft would provide greater integration with OS
& hence better user experience. Am i wrong? Further i don't know what pm
driver means so i am not able to locate where the pm driver is. I tried
rollback for acpi, but it reports that "no driver has been backed up for this
device" with driver producer as Microsoft. And about minimising wmp to
taskbar??

regards,
ashwin

MVP's are volunteers, not MS employees. But that is not the issue.
Malke said it well; I repeat that and what I said initially. Do not get
driver updates from windows update. In general they are not the most
recent - they are just what the device manufacturer has provided to MS.
And never do so for a laptop.

 

[Guest]

MVP's are volunteers, not MS employees. But that is not the issue.
Malke said it well; I repeat that and what I said initially. Do not get
driver updates from windows update. In general they are not the most
recent - they are just what the device manufacturer has provided to MS.
And never do so for a laptop.

And about my query regarding wmp (windows media player) ?

with regards,
murali

 

[Malke]

And about my query regarding wmp (windows media player) ?

Sorry, I don't know. Ask in the WMP newsgroup. Here is a list of all the
MS newsgroups:

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

Malke