Category Archives: Windows

ATI Catalyst WHQL 10.1 drivers

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Stuart Clark

ATI has released a new WHQL driver 10.1 available now on their official website, below is a list of the new changes. The Catalyst™ Software Suite 10.1 contains the following: Radeon™ display driver 8.69 HydraVision™ for both Windows XP, Vista … Continue reading →

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nVidia GeForce WHQL 196.21 drivers

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Stuart Clark

nVidia has released a new WHQL driver 196.21 available now on their official website, below is a list of the new changes. This is a WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION … Continue reading →

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ATI Catalyst WHQL 9.12 drivers

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Stuart Clark

ATI has released a new WHQL driver 9.12 available now on their official website, below is a list of the new changes. The Catalyst™ Software Suite 9.12 contains the following: Radeon™ display driver 8.681 HydraVision™ for both Windows XP, Vista … Continue reading →

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nVidia GeForce WHQL 195.62 drivers

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Stuart Clark

nVidia has released a new WHQL driver 195.62 available now on their official website, below is a list of the new changes. This is a WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION … Continue reading →

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ATI Catalyst WHQL 9.11 drivers

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Stuart Clark

ATI has released a new WHQL driver 9.11 available now on their official website, below is a list of the new changes. The Catalyst™ Software Suite 9.11 contains the following: Radeon™ display driver 8.671 HydraVision™ for both Windows XP, Vista … Continue reading →

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CD or DVD drive not found in Windows 7

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Stuart Clark

If your CD\DVD drive is identifed by your BIOS but not by Windows 7 then try the following: Run regedit.exe Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\ Delete both UpperFilters and LowerFilters in the right-hand pane NB: Leave both the UpperFilters.bak and LowerFilters.bak entries … Continue reading →

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Perform a clean install with Windows 7 Upgrade

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Stuart Clark

Paul Thurott and friend have worked out how to do a clean Windows 7 installation whilst only using the Windows 7 upgrade disc. The instructions are as follows: Perform a clean installation using the Upgrade disc. Install all pending Windows … Continue reading →

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ATI Catalyst WHQL 9.10 drivers

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Stuart Clark

ATI has released a new WHQL driver 9.10 available now on their official website, below is a list of the new changes. The Catalyst™ Software Suite 9.10 contains the following: Radeon™ display driver 8.661 HydraVision™ for both Windows XP, Vista … Continue reading →

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Hanging at 62% when you upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Stuart Clark

If when attempting to upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 your installation hangs at 62% this could be due to the iphlpsvc service and Microsoft offers the following fix: Reboot the computer; this will cause a rollback to Windows … Continue reading →

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Windows 7 disk defragmenter

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Stuart Clark

Windows 7 has a new updated disk defragmenter when compared to Windows Vista. The disk defragmenter utility in Vista was rightly criticised for not giving enough user feedback, this has been fixed slightly in that now the user can see … Continue reading →

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