On Saturday 29 March 2008, 19:53, Stroller wrote:

> One of my biggest bugbears against reinstalling is drivers. Dell &
> Sony are wonderful! You just enter the tag or model number on their
> website and the correct drivers are listed. Advent - and here, in the
> UK, other "brands" of computer which are only available "exclusively"
> from PC World - can be a royal PITA, and once every month or two I
> encounter a machine for which it takes HOURS to find the correct
> drivers for all devices.

Ok, this is going /way/ OT already, however, speaking of windows driver
recovery, drivergrabber and drivermax (just google a bit to find them)
have helped me *a lot* in the past, especially with old or esoteric
hardare.
Hope this helps.
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