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Installing Old Hardware Drivers On Windows 7

November 12, 2009 by Raj Agrawal 2 Comments

Dealing with the compatibility issue

Recently, I was stuck with installing drivers on my computer loaded with a newly purchased copy of Windows 7 Ultimate OS. I’m referring to a Pentium 4 processor, Intel 845G 64MB integrated graphics and 512MB DDR desktop. Windows 7 seemed to run well, with the luxurious features of Windows 7 like Aero and Media center turned off. The only bad thing is that Windows 7 is not very friendly with the older stuff. “Many” of the older applications (including drivers) were failing to install on the new OS. After some troubleshooting efforts, I found a simple way to deal with the compatibility issue.

windows 7 beta boots creen — Windows 7 boot screen

Steps to install old hardware drivers on Windows 7:

Install a freeware file compression software 7 Zip,
Jump to the location where you have the setup/zipped driver file you are willing to install,
Right click on the setup file, unzip and extract it to any convenient location,
Now you can try updating your drivers by pointing the ‘hardware update wizard’ to the unzipped folder location,
Select “Reinstall with recommend settings” and this should do the job,
If it still doesn’t work out, all you can do is wait till a new fix is introduced via windows update or an update through the driver manufacture’s website or just by upgrading your hardware.

The compatibility issue is just for the time being and all the applications that you used on XP will soon work with 7.

Your Very Own Sixth Sense Might Be On It’s Way

November 6, 2009 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

How would it be if you could get first hand information right of the internet about anything and anywhere in the world? How about taking a photograph of a beautiful scenery just with hand gesture? Want a consumer or even a critic review of a book you are about to purchase, all these right in front of you, with just hand gestures. It’s sounds like a synonym to how Tom Cruise accesses information in the movie Minority Report. Doesn’t it?

sixth sense pranav mistry — Pravav Mistry demonstrating the working of Sixth Sense and is the man behind it’s development

MIT’s Pranav Mistry and Pattie Maes have worked upon this innovative and work-in-progress idea named, Sixth Sense and presented the working of this great product at the TED conference. Sixth Sense is similar to Microsoft’s surface computer. Watch this video and you will be amazed to see what this technology is capable of.

Give Away Of The Day: Paid Softwares and Games!

November 4, 2009 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

Yes, this one is legitimate and true

Hey guys, check out giveawayoftheday.com, it’s dedicated to give away paid software and games for free download, daily. You get the software/game along with the activation key and you are ready to use it with full functionality! This is a very unique concept where it benefits the down-loaders and the software makers too.

Brand logo

Giveawayoftheday.com has made the whole idea clear with the following words :

The idea behind this initiative is that many sites and publishers offer trial downloads; but only we offer giveaway downloads. What does that mean?

Basically, every day we nominate one software title that will be a Giveaway title of that day. The software will be available for download for 24 hours (or more, if agreed by software publisher) and that software will be absolutely free. That means – not a trial, not a limited version – but a registered and legal version of the software will be free for our visitors*.
The software product will be presented in its full functionality, without any limitations save for those mentioned in Terms and Conditions.

Did you notice the familiar * mark on one of the statements? Yes, all freebies come along with certain conditions applied. The software/game usage is limited to non-commercial only, and may also have limited software updates and technical support. But, it’s still good enough to get a break from piracy? Isn’t it?