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On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 08:40:01 -0700, Ken Blake
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My understand is that I install the OS then install the drivers
(right?). So, that's fine --if I have the drivers on a disk.
But, suppose I download the drivers ahead of installing the OS --
how then do I get them on the machine?


Copy them to a CD, DVD, thumb drive, etc., then install them from that
after installing the operating system.

Isn't there more to installation than sinply copying? Copy to where
--just anywhere --- ? I'm not convinced. And if this failed I have
nothing!

Most drivers, you simply copy the exe to your hard-drive... desktop is
fine... sometimes some folks put them on the "C:\" drive; but that may send
your 3rd-party firewalls/AVs into tizzy-fits...

Once you've copied them, you double-click and generally it will give you an
'extraction dialog' which generally you can just go with the defaults...
Presuming based on a deduction that if you've made any power-user directory
or partition exeptions, you wouldn't be seeking assistance on this
particular issue.

Hang in there on Windows 8! Like all things, you'll get used to it and
adapt to it. It'll still be " s - t - 0 - 0 - p - i - d " ; but, you will
get used to it - and be up with the times as a bonus for no extra charge.

HTH.

--

I AM Bucky Breeder, (*(^; and ,
I thought of running for mayor of NYC...
but s'exting pictures of my penis back
to myself suddenly makes me a "narcisisst"?

Since when did THAT become a "bad thing"?
Oh well, "Sticks and stones..."