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DriverViewer – List all installed drivers on Windows

Aug 272009

DriverView is a very simple powerful and a very useful system utility for Windows. As the name implies, DriverView scans the system and lists all the drivers installed on the system with extensive information about each of the drivers.

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XDDM driver can crash your Windows 7 beta system

Windows 7 1 Response »

Jan 222009

This is a more of an information to workaround a system crash issue in Windows 7 Beta. In Windows 7 Beta your computer may fail to respond or crash when trying to run winsat.exe which is nothing but running “Rate and improve your computers performance” or changing multi-monitor configurations or during a DVD or Video playback.

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How to Disable a service or Device Drivers using Group Policies

Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows-Server-2003 6 Responses »

Feb 282008

Group Policies are used to apply system and security policies for the client PCs in a Windows Active Directory based Domains. While Group Policies is vast in itself to explain, here is a simple procedure on how to enable/disable a service or a Device driver using Group Policies.

The registry keys that the Group Policy targets to disable the service or the drivers is here

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services]

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