drivers? why?
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Hello, I've just installed a couple of philips monitors, and my Windows XP have detected them as Plug & Play. The Monitors came with drivers for XP, but why should I install drivers for something that is working now? Do you know if there's any advantage on doing it? thank you in advance.
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Hello, I've just installed a couple of philips monitors, and my Windows XP have detected them as Plug & Play. The Monitors came with drivers for XP, but why should I install drivers for something that is working now? Do you know if there's any advantage on doing it? thank you in advance.
None. Unless the proprietary driver has more functions for your monitor, it saves your time just to let Windows XP detect it with Plug & Play. Developing in Heaven :o)
Programmers are so good at debugging that they just don't know how to say sorry in the real world. If you think my statement above is wrong, show me the line I will fix it. See? -
Hello, I've just installed a couple of philips monitors, and my Windows XP have detected them as Plug & Play. The Monitors came with drivers for XP, but why should I install drivers for something that is working now? Do you know if there's any advantage on doing it? thank you in advance.
they may not be drivers, but ICC profiles...that is what came with my LCD monitor. Steve
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Hello, I've just installed a couple of philips monitors, and my Windows XP have detected them as Plug & Play. The Monitors came with drivers for XP, but why should I install drivers for something that is working now? Do you know if there's any advantage on doing it? thank you in advance.
Very often monitors have functions that are controlled by custom drivers; if yours has a number of settings that can be set that way, it is worthwhile to install the software. If you're happy with the way the monitor is now working, though, I wouldn't bother. Hang on to the CD, though; you may want some feature that WinXP doesn't support someday - you never know...:) "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley
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Very often monitors have functions that are controlled by custom drivers; if yours has a number of settings that can be set that way, it is worthwhile to install the software. If you're happy with the way the monitor is now working, though, I wouldn't bother. Hang on to the CD, though; you may want some feature that WinXP doesn't support someday - you never know...:) "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley
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they may not be drivers, but ICC profiles...that is what came with my LCD monitor. Steve
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None. Unless the proprietary driver has more functions for your monitor, it saves your time just to let Windows XP detect it with Plug & Play. Developing in Heaven :o)
Programmers are so good at debugging that they just don't know how to say sorry in the real world. If you think my statement above is wrong, show me the line I will fix it. See? -
Hello, I've just installed a couple of philips monitors, and my Windows XP have detected them as Plug & Play. The Monitors came with drivers for XP, but why should I install drivers for something that is working now? Do you know if there's any advantage on doing it? thank you in advance.
When I saw your thread title, I thought you were talking about a futuristic car that wouldn't need a human driver :-D