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Old July 14th 18, 09:21 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ken Blake[_5_]
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Default New Device detection, 32 vs 64 bit

On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 01:53:01 -0300, pjp
wrote:


I have an old Creative Webcam Gen3. Under XP it required a driver and
that's the last one available. Driver is very old, basically unuasable
in todays OS's.

As a curiousity I plugged it into a couple of Win7 32 bit pcs and they
all saw the camera, downloaded a driver and it was seen as a Windows
Imaging Device and it worked. Under 64 bit Win7 it can't locate a
driver!!!

Same thing happened in last 24 hours, 64 bit Windows with a bluetooth
dongle and it's go looking yourself. 32 bit downloads a driver that
appears to work properly.

Is this a common occurence?



Yes, drivers not being available for old hardware and newer operating
systems is a common occurrence.

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