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Lesson 3: Installing, Updating, and Troubleshooting Windows Vista Device
Drivers
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Practice 1: Configuring Windows Update Driver Settings
In this practice, you will configure the Windows Update Driver Settings.
These settings deter-
mine how Windows Vista will use Windows Update to locate new drivers when a
new device
is connected. The possible settings are to check automatically for drivers
each time a device is
connected, to ask whether the check should be performed when a new device is
connected, or
to never perform the check. To configure the Windows Update Driver settings,
perform the
following steps:
1. In the Start menu, click Control Panel. If the Device Manager icon is not
displayed, click
Classic View in the left pane.
2. Double-click System.
3. Under Tasks, click Advanced System Settings. Click Continue to close the
User Account
Control dialog box.
4. Click the Hardware tab.
5. Click the Windows Update Driver Settings button.
6. In the Windows Update Driver Settings dialog box, select the Ask Me Each
Time I Con-
nect A New Device Before Checking For Drivers option, as shown in Figure
1-23.
Figure 1-23
The Windows Update Driver Settings dialog box
7. Click OK to close the dialog box.
8. Click OK again to close the System Properties dialog box.
Practice 2: Configuring System Failure Options
The Windows Vista system failure setting determines the amount of debugging
information
that Windows Vista provides if a STOP error occurs. By default, Windows
Vista performs a
kernel memory dump and then automatically reboots. If you are trying to
determine which
driver is causing the STOP error to occur, you will want the STOP error
screen to remain dis-
played until you have had time to jot down as much information about the
error as possible.
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