On clean Scsi HD install of XP, what drivers get installed first

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Is there an installation order to install drivers for the various peripherals on the computer when installing XP home? I have a video card, sound card, mother board 2.0 USB, gigabit lan, web cam, twin Monitors, wireless mouse and key board, extra HD 80 gb eid1, DVD-RW, CD-ROM. Thanks for the kind assistance.
P.S. How in Windows Explorer, can you get the cursor to land on a folder other than the default Start Menu, say C:\?
 
Hi Andrew,

Is there an installation order to install drivers for the various peripherals on the computer when installing XP home? I have a video card, sound card, mother board 2.0 USB, gigabit lan, web cam, twin Monitors, wireless mouse and key board, extra HD 80 gb eid1, DVD-RW, CD-ROM. Thanks for the kind assistance.
P.S. How in Windows Explorer, can you get the cursor to land on a folder other than the default Start Menu, say C:\?
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/install/hh/install/create-inf_7ap3.asp
Specifying Driver Load Order (Device Installation: Windows DDK)
For most devices, the physical hierarchy of the devices on a machine
determines the order in which Setup and the PnP Manager load drivers.

To customize Windows Explorer opening:
Right click Windows Explorer/Properties and type this into the Target
path:

To have C: open (No folders)
%SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe /root, C:\

To have C: open expanded: %windir%\EXPLORER.EXE /e,c:

To have C: open and My Documents:
%windir%\EXPLORER.EXE /e,c:,%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\My Documents

For it to open to My Documents:
explorer /n,/e,%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\My Documents or
C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe /n,/e,%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\My Documents

To have My Documents open only (No folders):
Explorer /root, c:\Documents and Settings\%username%\My Documents

If you wish to have Explorer open at My Documents on another drive,
you would use:
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e, f:\My Documents

To have another Drive letter assigned to opening: D for example:
C:\Windows\Explorer.exe /e, d:\

d:\ can be modified for any folder/sub-folder you like. As in:
%SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe /e,d:\My Stuff

The /e switch tells Windows Explorer to open in the two pane explorer
mode and the c:\ tells it to open in folder C:\. If you omit the /e
switch, Windows Explorer opens in a single pane view.

Good luck, hope this helps
 
You are the man!!! Thanks That expoler thing has plauged me for the longest time
The msnd page is very detailed, hope I'll be able to get it. I'm at work right now so I just glanced at it . It did look rather techie though. Off the top of your head is there any real peripherals that should have there drivers loaded first, or is it just logic. Scsi, Monitors, motherboard, cd-roms or dvds etc. in that kind of order? Thanks again Andrew
 
Hi Andrew,

You are the man!!! Thanks That expoler thing has plauged me for the longest time.
The msnd page is very detailed, hope I'll be able to get it. I'm at work right now so I just glanced at it . It did look rather techie though. Off the top of your head is there any real peripherals that should have there drivers loaded first, or is it just logic. Scsi, Monitors, motherboard, cd-roms or dvds etc. in that kind of order? Thanks again Andrew
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Thank you for your feedback :)

As for the order of installation if you are going to do a clean
install, it would be best to disconnect all peripherals (external zip
drives, CD RW drives) just leave what came with the computer, that is,
the tower, the monitor, keyboard and mouse.
Perform a clean installation of XP (with the cable to the Net
disconnected so you don't get the Blaster worm), enable the XP's
firewall or a third-party one, go to Windows Update and download SP1
and all other critical updates.
Then installl all peripherals that you disconnected in the previous
phase (printers, external drives). You should have the appropriate XP
drivers, if they came with the hardware or you have gone to the
manufacturer's webpage and downloaded the latest updates for XP.

For information about installing printers see this page:
http://www.coribright.com/Windows/Article One.htm

For detailed info about clean install and repair install, see these
sites:
Clean Install Windows XP
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Good luck
 
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