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Neeum Zawan wrote:
> Essentially, isn't that how HP got started?
Yes. Then they bought Compaq. :-)
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Not for this machine, no. Just installed software. No real data, but it
> would be a minor inconvenience to have to reinstall windows.
Well, that's a good time to screw things up. :-)
> Yeah, who would have thought some utility for a keyboard/mouse would
> kill a machine ;)
It didn't. It just killed all your interfaces to it.
You could also try to RDP into it and uninstall the driver.
> What would be nice is if I could go back to a restore point w/o loading
> the offending driver.
If you *have* a restore point, you can do that from the boot CD on Vista.
Give that a try first, even.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Warp wrote:
> Are you really surprised by that at this point?
No. I'm just hoping it sinks in at some point. :-)
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I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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On 09/14/09 16:14, Darren New wrote:
> Neeum Zawan wrote:
>> Essentially, isn't that how HP got started?
>
> Yes. Then they bought Compaq. :-)
But that was after the split...
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>> One, it's probably labeled however the drive manufacturer labeled it.
>> It's not like HP makes disk drives.
>
> Really? So what's the deal with the full-page "HP original HDs" listing
> then?
It probably means it's the ones that HP have bought and had labelled as
being "HP" (and perhaps agreed some slighty different specs). Like a "Dell
original battery" is most certainly not made by Dell.
Wikipedia tells me this:
"The technological resources and know-how required for modern drive
development and production mean that as of 2009, virtually all of the
world's HDDs are manufactured by just five large companies: Seagate, Western
Digital, Hitachi (which owns the former disk manufacturing division of IBM),
Samsung, and Toshiba."
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>
>> In this case, I suspect it's simply supply and demand. Fewer people buy
>> Basic, so it's more expensive.
>
> Wouldn't it be the other way around? If there's no demand, the price gets
> lowered.
Mmm, that's an interesting point.
Does the price go down because there's less demand? Or does the price go
up because it costs more to manufacture and stock an item that not many
people buy?
If we were talking about, say, a car, the price would probably go up if
the car was unpopular, because it costs a hell of a lot to design and
build those things. But software? Hmm...
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Darren New wrote:
> You could also try to RDP into it and uninstall the driver.
This would be my suggestion, yes. [Assuming it's enabled, of course...]
If it isn't, System Internals have a tool to remotely execute programs.
But I don't suppose you happen to know the absolute path to the
uninstaller. ;-)
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>>> One, it's probably labeled however the drive manufacturer labeled it.
>>> It's not like HP makes disk drives.
>>
>> Really? So what's the deal with the full-page "HP original HDs"
>> listing then?
>
> It probably means it's the ones that HP have bought and had labelled as
> being "HP" (and perhaps agreed some slighty different specs). Like a
> "Dell original battery" is most certainly not made by Dell.
Probably means you have to buy it from HP to not void your warranty. ;-)
> Wikipedia tells me this:
>
> "The technological resources and know-how required for modern drive
> development and production mean that as of 2009, virtually all of the
> world's HDDs are manufactured by just five large companies: Seagate,
> Western Digital, Hitachi (which owns the former disk manufacturing
> division of IBM), Samsung, and Toshiba."
Do you remember off-hand who owns Maxtor now?
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
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>> You could also try to RDP into it and uninstall the driver.
>
> This would be my suggestion, yes. [Assuming it's enabled, of course...]
Alternately, figure out what you need to change in the system or what the
name of the executable is, remote mount the registry and/or disk drive, and
manually rename and/or delete the files it uses to start up.
There are lots of solutions better than starting from scratch, if you have
data you want to keep.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Darren New wrote:
> They probably sold that division since last I looked. HP test equipment
> used to be up there with tektronics.
Tektronics now owned by Xerox it appears...
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