Driver rollback
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Whats the deal with XP's driver rollback? Whenever I have a bad driver that I need to roll back to the previous driver its always tells me that there is no driver restore point. Do I have to create one or is the driver installation supposed to do it? Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179 "If you're Noah and you're facing the Flood, don't call a lawyer, start building an Ark." - David Cunningham -
Whats the deal with XP's driver rollback? Whenever I have a bad driver that I need to roll back to the previous driver its always tells me that there is no driver restore point. Do I have to create one or is the driver installation supposed to do it? Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179 "If you're Noah and you're facing the Flood, don't call a lawyer, start building an Ark." - David CunninghamMost times I've installed a new driver or new device in an XP machine it has created a restore point before proceeding. I'm not sure whether that is a built in function in XP, or a required step in writing a driver installer. I suspect it's the latter, as the few times I've installed something that did not do this I also got a warning that the driver has not been certified to work with XP. "Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
tumble down the stairs." -
Most times I've installed a new driver or new device in an XP machine it has created a restore point before proceeding. I'm not sure whether that is a built in function in XP, or a required step in writing a driver installer. I suspect it's the latter, as the few times I've installed something that did not do this I also got a warning that the driver has not been certified to work with XP. "Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
tumble down the stairs."Roger Wright wrote: I've installed something that did not do this I also got a warning that the driver has not been certified to work with XP. These are signed drivers and I have system restore runnning (although I've never used it), thats why I wondered. Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179 "If you're Noah and you're facing the Flood, don't call a lawyer, start building an Ark." - David Cunningham -
Whats the deal with XP's driver rollback? Whenever I have a bad driver that I need to roll back to the previous driver its always tells me that there is no driver restore point. Do I have to create one or is the driver installation supposed to do it? Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179 "If you're Noah and you're facing the Flood, don't call a lawyer, start building an Ark." - David CunninghamI am not sure what could be the reason for message "there is no driver restore point", but I know that windows XP automatically creats restore point whenever you install something. in your case it could have been switched off by mistake or some other reason. you can also check for the restore points yourself. goto Start->Programms->Accessories->System Tools-> System restore. you can check here whether the system restore is on or off and if it's on whether it has generated the restore point before the installation of the driver. did you have any previous version of the driver you are trying to install?