Forcing drivers installation & upgrade

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Krzysztof Gibas

Hi!

Let's say that I have CD with all the drivers I need. Is it possible
to force XP to automatically install new and update existing drivers
for all devices? Because now I have to run driver autodetection
manually for each device, which is neither fast nor comfortable.

Maybe something that I could put in a script?

TIA
 
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Krzysztof Gibas said:
Hi!

Let's say that I have CD with all the drivers I need. Is it possible
to force XP to automatically install new and update existing drivers
for all devices? Because now I have to run driver autodetection
manually for each device, which is neither fast nor comfortable.

Maybe something that I could put in a script?

TIA
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Doubtful. You can do all your driver updates in Device Manager, without
autodetcting anything, though - just select/right-click, update driver, and
point it at the path of the new driver.
 
Doubtful. You can do all your driver updates in Device Manager, without
autodetcting anything, though - just select/right-click, update driver, and
point it at the path of the new driver.
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That's what I called autodetection of new driver, but no matter how
you call it it's too much time consuming.
 
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Krzysztof Gibas said:
That's what I called autodetection of new driver, but no matter how
you call it it's too much time consuming.
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Ah. I thought you meant "scan for new hardware" / plug & play autodetect.
How many drivers do you find updating? This shouldn't be something you have
to do often, I imagine.
 
Ah. I thought you meant "scan for new hardware" / plug & play autodetect.
How many drivers do you find updating? This shouldn't be something you have
to do often, I imagine.
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Yes, I work as a serviceman in a computer store.
 
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Krzysztof Gibas said:
Yes, I work as a serviceman in a computer store.
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Ah - so this is for multiple computer models, entirely different hardware,
even? I can't think of any way you could possibly automate this. If the
drivers you're using don't have an installation routine, it's pretty much
device manager time.
 
Ah - so this is for multiple computer models, entirely different hardware,
even? I can't think of any way you could possibly automate this. If the
drivers you're using don't have an installation routine, it's pretty much
device manager time.
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What do you mean by "If the drivers you're using don't have
an installation routine"? Every driver has an installation routine,
but I don't see how it's relevant since installing them all wouldn't
make much sense, because only few are appropriate for a given
hardware.
What drivers have besides installation routine is their inf file. XP
during installation runs drivers detection for all installed devices.
I was hoping to find a way to run similar procedure through some
utility, or maybe system call.
 
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Krzysztof Gibas said:
What do you mean by "If the drivers you're using don't have
an installation routine"? Every driver has an installation routine,
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I meant, an executable that you can launch to install it. Not just inf
files, etc.
but I don't see how it's relevant since installing them all wouldn't
make much sense, because only few are appropriate for a given
hardware.
What drivers have besides installation routine is their inf file. XP
during installation runs drivers detection for all installed devices.
I was hoping to find a way to run similar procedure through some
utility, or maybe system call.
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Sorry I can't help further - I know of nothing that will do this for you.
 
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