[Rick1953]

This is from today's Fred Langa's newsletter. If you have trouble getting to the site
wait a couple of days as anything mentioned in Fred's newsletter usually brings
a flood of hits on the server and causes problems.

1) Automatically Back Up Your Device Drivers

Hi Fred. I've just come across a very user friendly tool to
back up device drivers. Here's a quote from the manual:
"WinDriver Expert is FREEWARE, provides you the easy and fast
detection and backup of the entire hardware device drivers
currently on your system. Just one or two mouse button clicks,
you will have all your hardware devices retracted and backed
up to any folder you want. Also a INF device script installer
is included."

Download it here
http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/59143.html
What it does is grab the as-installed INF files and associated device
drivers from your current system, and backs them up to a designated
location. Later, if--- or when--- you need to reinstall your OS, you
won't have to dig out the original disks or CDs when Windows says "New
Device Detected." Instead, just point Windows to the backup location,
and all the necessary INF and drivers files will already be there, ready
to go.

[joe2cool]

Cool !! Tip Rick Cheers !

[Dan Mc]

Sounds very kewl. Question:

Once I download (it's a ZIP file) I want to put the drivers on CD...

Do I format the CD 1st?

Do I run the finer and then burn it to CD?

Steps for getting the drivers on CD, please?

[Rick1953]

Dan Mc,
After you unzip the program use the fast collect to collect all your hardware drivers and Inf files. Collect all option will also collect drivers that are on your Windows Cd so it isn't really necessary to back up those. After collecting your drivers use the make all option to create a backup folder called My Drivers. If you want to burn this folder to a CD, which I did, just use your burner software for data and browse to this folder. I'm told from a poster in another forumn that you should have your printer and all USB devices turned on for this program to find the drivers, but this wasn't the case for me.