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  Greetings from the happy camper,

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  Hello

  After three days of struggle with trying to get Vista Ultimate (purhcased at the United States) SP2 update, and several failures of various updates automatically downloaded from Windows Update: I finally found and read

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  Hope this information is useful.

  Let me know if it worked.

  With regard to:

  Jeremy K
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  There are many excellent free tools to NirSoft
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  Vista and Windows 7 updated drivers love then here's how update the most important.

  This is my generic how updates of appropriate driver:

  This utility, it is easy see which versions are loaded:

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  For each driver in the list, additional useful information is displayed: load address of the driver,
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  Now in the system manufacturer (Dell, HP, Toshiba as examples) site (in a restaurant), peripheral
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  Download - SAVE - go to where you put them - right click - RUN AD ADMIN - REBOOT after
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  Refer to these discussions because many more excellent advice however don't forget to check your antivirus
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  first.

  Problems with the overall speed of the system and performance
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  Performance and Maintenance Tips
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  Explorer Windows stopped working
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  Hope these helps.