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Get Your Vista Drivers From RadarSync

Although Vista supposedly ships with thousands and thousands of drivers, if you're upgrading your self-built machine from XP to Vista, chances are there's going to be at least one component that has drivers not quite compatible with Microsoft's new OS. Instead of wasting hours googling like we did, head to RadarSync and grab the drivers there.

RadarSync is supposedly going to act as a Vista driver depository that makes it easy to find the drivers you want. We suspect something like this will be very useful for at least a couple of months until manufacturers get their acts together and update their drivers for legacy products to Vista. – Jason Chen

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1:00 PM on Sun Jan 28 2007
By Jason Chen
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Mark 2000 at 01:08 PM on 01/28/07
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I never understood why microsoft ever made their own drivers. I would think it would be more sensible to have Windows Update be a repository of vendor drivers. Vendors could update their driver on MS's site whenever they have a new one and Update would automatically install them to our systems.
Hoffen at 01:14 PM on 01/28/07
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Uhhg, I cringe whenever I hear Microsoft and Automatic near each other...

No wait, its just Microsoft, *shudder*...
hughjass at 02:07 PM on 01/28/07
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I would agree with you Mark, except the fact that it would be quite difficult to not have integrated drivers on a fresh installation of the OS.
hughjass at 02:10 PM on 01/28/07
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@Jason,
FYI, "repository" is a more accurate word than "depository" in this instance.
unit00 at 02:40 PM on 01/28/07
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What makes you think Microsoft writes their own drivers, other than the generic ones (like, Generic monitor, Generic mouse)? The vendors send the drivers to be included in the OS install.
Coop at 03:06 PM on 01/28/07
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I'd think that would be a good way to get a trojan installed on your machine (download hardware drivers from a third-party website).

Why not just go to the manufacturer's own website, instead of trusting that the third-party didn't hijack the code for their own (possibly malicious) reasons?
Gilliam at 03:38 PM on 01/28/07
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Mark, HP's drivers are an example of why i think thats not a good idea. i would rather have the small printer driver than have hp's whole application suite crap when im just trying to get my [new?]printer to print.
peconi at 01:11 AM on 01/29/07
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If you already have XP running on your machine, copy to a DVD or somewhere both your Program Files folder and Windows folder.

Then, when installation of Vista is complete and there are some issues with drivers - point it to a location on your DVD or HDD where you stored these (first point it to a Windows folder) and if that does not work - then point it to a Program Files ...

99% of drivers missing will be found and will work just fine with Vista.

I've been doing this since pre-beta versions of Vista/Longhorn then - and it all works like a charm!