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It's simple: the Microsoft DDK group are a satanic cult. Your original driver is therefore, ultimately, from Satan.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That seems pretty likely. I'm guessing part of the ritual to get the driver involved me giving up my memories of the process... 
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My laptop is running Vista 32-bit, though the laptop itself is 64-bit capable. When I got it years ago, I figured I'd never upgrade the RAM beyond the 3GB the laptop came with and I'd have better luck with drivers (e.g., for my old printer) if I stuck with 32-bit, so I opted for the 32-bit install.
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Vista 32-bit seems reasonable, that was still during the 32-bit to 64-bit transition, when some driver support could be lacking for some hardware. We just don't have much of a customer base on Vista, even 64-bit, so there wasn't much point supporting it.
I'm not sure why anyone would opt for 32-bit Windows 7 though...but nothing is as bad as opting for 64-bit XP (WDK doesn't even seem to offer a build environment for it). Luckily we haven't encountered that yet.
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Hmm... I bought my laptop with Vista 32-bit Home Premium pre-installed. About a year ago I did a fresh install of Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit. No muss, no fuss, all drivers present and accounted for.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I was expecting some kind of mystery novel post and at the 7th word you've blasted my expectatives...
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Joan Murt wrote: at the 7th word you've blasted my expectatives...
Took that long? I'll have to try harder next time... 
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Too underwhelming. I was expecting something, like:
- I was installing a driver on one machine, but instead, it manifested to another, completely network-detached old PC in my shed;
- I installed a driver from Microsoft for the screen, and now feel like it is trying to get me buying all Microsoft products, probably using the 25-th frame brainwash...
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If you work for yahoo, is your work email @yahoo.com? If so, would it be embarrassing when you give your address to people and they frown and ask why you don't use gmail?
Do most companies that provide emails addresses with their domains reserve a separate one for employees?
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google versus gmail?
microsoft versus hotmail?
yahooligan versus yahoo?
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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workingonmyresume vs aol?
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"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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I hope the last one was a joke - "yahooligan", because clearly, this would be a joke by somebody who speaks russian, as it means precisely "I am a rascal".
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Vitaly Tomilov wrote: I hope the last one was a joke
I would hope so as well.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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The spelling is "хулиган", reads "hooligan", and means the same as "rascal" 
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One point of view on the origins of "hooligan," and its later manifestation as an adopted word in Russian:[^].
But, note: the above has no mention of the frequent use of the phrase "soccer/football hooligan" more recently.
If you tell me it's a native Russian word, I believe you !
For other interesting words suggestive of violent minor criminal, or whatever see: [^].
While I was in India (1975-1976) the term "goondas" referred to "enforcers" for exploitative local bosses, and land-owners: I always that thought "goon" came into English from India (Hindi-Urdu), as did words like "chicanery, "bandana," and "verandah," etc.
best, Bill
"The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness." Andre Malraux
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I had heard from our teacher in India (back in the early eighties) that a number of words, including "mother" and "father" came into English from Sanskrit - "maata" and "pita". Am not aware of any evidence for that, though.
Meanwhile, Wikipedia lists a number of words which came to English from Sanskrit [^].
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Yahoo is still around?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If you went a week without thinking and then experienced life you will see more clearly how life is a dream. Meditation is a good way of waking up from the dream of life. Sometimes it can be a good dream sometimes a bad dream but ultimately all you see is a reflection of yourself in the external world.. 
Won't let you embarrass again..
--AK
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Amit Kmr Sinha wrote: If you went a week without thinking...
Is that anything like posting nonsense on CP without thinking?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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some people just like the downvotes I guess. :P
Leonardo Paneque
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I think your account won't be active much longer. I would take a break from posting for a bit. I see you have other rep points, so you have been active in answering questions. Maybe go back to that ?
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wizardzz wrote: I think your account won't be active much longer.
Two more to go, I believe.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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Is it possible that today you've just not taken your medication? 
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I think perhaps that he is over-medicated. And not with prescription drugs, either...
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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