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Chily device driver Backup (exe): Device Driver Backup software to create backup of system drivers and restore them when you reinstall the operating system or upgrade the system. The driver CD is required at the time of installing the OS. Just create the backup and restore it when the need arises for installing Windows system...; Tags: Data Recovery, Device Driver, Backups, Storage Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2007-11-19
Can Microsoft ever stop kernel tampering in Vista?: Can Microsoft ever stop kernel tampering in Vista?Windows defender is supposed to be an antispyware programIt seems lately it only is used by microsoft to get rid of unwanted hacks of their os. It doesn't stop vundo or smit-fraud or anything really. So much for the much heralded free antispyware...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, SECURITY, Like Google, Windows Defender, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, device driver; Discussion threads 2007-08-21
Overview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta: Microsoft continuously improves Windows Vista by providing ongoing updates while working with software and hardware vendors to deliver application compatibility and device driver improvements. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) will be another vehicle through which Microsoft provides operating system improvements to customers. This white paper presents an overview of...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Device Driver, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2007-08-01
Driver Genius Professional Edition 2007 (exe): Driver Genius is a professional driver management tool for Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/XP x64/Server 2003 x64/Vista x64 that backs up, restores and searches for new drivers. Quickly backup device drivers for your computer. Just need one click to restore all drivers. Clone your drivers to an EXE auto-installer. Keep your drivers...; Tags: Driver, Device Driver, Driver Genius, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software; Software downloads 2007-06-18
Introduction to WIA 2.0: This paper introduces Microsoft Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) 2.0 and the new features that have been introduced in Windows Vista. It describes the basic concepts that developers need to write a WIA 2.0 device driver or application. Microsoft Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) is both an Application Programming Interface (API) and...; Tags: Acquisition, Device Driver, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Operating Systems, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations; White papers 2007-05-02

Plug and Play device driver Deployment in Windows Vista and Windows Server Longhorn: This paper provides information about Plug and Play driver deployment scenarios for the Windows Vista and Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" operating systems. Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), corporate IT support staff, and driver developers can use the information in this paper to better understand driver deployment scenarios and debugging techniques...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server Longhorn, Microsoft Windows Vista, Device Driver, Driver Deployment Scenario, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software; White papers 2007-04-10
Device Info (exe): Device Info lists all your PC's device drivers and their provider and version.; Tags: Device Driver, Device Info; Software downloads 2007-02-06
Plug and Play device driver Migration in Windows Vista: This paper provides preview information about Plug and Play driver migration and installation for in-place upgrades to the Windows Vista operating system. Developers, support staff, and manufacturers can use the information in this paper to better understand driver migration behavior and debugging techniques for Windows Vista. The paper includes an...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Device Driver, Migration, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2007-01-31
A Measurement Study of the Linux TCP/IP Stack Performance and Scalability on SMP Systems: The performance of the protocol stack implementation of an operating system can greatly impact the performance of networked applications that run on it. This paper presents a thorough measurement study and comparison of the network stack performance of the two popular Linux kernels: 2.4 and 2.6, with a special focus...; Tags: Performance, Scalability, Device Driver, Indian Institute Of Technology, Linux, Performance Management, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2007-01-01
SafeDrive: Safe and Recoverable Extensions Using Language-Based Techniques: This paper presents SafeDrive, a system for detecting and recovering from type safety violations in software extensions. SafeDrive has low overhead and requires minimal changes to existing source code. To achieve this result, SafeDrive uses a novel type system that provides finegrained isolation for existing extensions written in C. In...; Tags: Technique, Network Card, Device Driver, University Of California, SafeDrive, Networking; White papers 2006-11-08
Surge of killer device drivers leave no OS safe: News came yesterday that Linux users who used NVIDIAs drivers were in danger of being remotely exploited because a zero-day exploit code was released last week. Just the mere act of visiting a malicious website could trigger a buffer overflow that can lead to arbitrary...; Tags: SECURITY, Operating systems, UNIX, Wi-Fi, OPEN SOURCE, operating system, flaw, Linux, device driver, wireless; Blog posts 2006-10-18
ChrisTWEAK (exe): ChrisTWEAK improve your TV experience; optimize your capture device settings. ChrisTWEAK lets you change any setting in the capture device driver in order to improve TV experience, such as: image settings, video standard ( PAL, NTSC, SECAM), image prefilter settings (Dynamic Noise Reduction) available only for Hauppauge PVR 150/250/350/500, TV...; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, card, WDM, personal video recorder, device driver, video, MPEG, hardware, software; Software downloads 2006-09-01
device driver and BIOS Development for AMD Multiprocessor and Multi-Core Systems: Device drivers and Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) code for Windows devices are as old as Windows - and each generation of hardware has presented both new opportunities and new challenges for device driver and BIOS developers. The move from 16-bit Windows 3.x to the 32-bit Windows 95 was the first...; Tags: Device Driver, Multiprocessor, Multi-core, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., BIOS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Hardware, Components, Software; White papers 2006-08-01
Linux Bootup Time Reduction for Digital Still Camera: Bootup time is a very important issue in the DSC System because customers want to capture immediately specific image. In this paper, the authors present the experience of the implementation methods and the performance evaluation results for reduction of bootup time which was used in SAMSUNG DSC platform. At first...; Tags: Reduction, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Performance Evaluation, Device Driver, Camera, Performance Management, Linux, Team Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management; White papers 2006-07-22
device driver INF Guidelines for Windows XP: This paper collects articles about creation and management of INF files for device driver installation for the Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems. This paper provides an archive of information published in 2001 - 2003 and has not been updated or corrected. For current...; Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Device Driver, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2006-06-30
Adding device drivers to the New Boot Install Image in the Solaris 10 OS for x86 Platforms: This engineering reference explains how to add new device driver binaries to an install image for the Solaris Operating System (OS) so that a system with a new device will be able to install and support this device during, and after, the installation process. This paper is intended for systems...; Tags: Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Intel X86, Device Driver, Sun Solaris, Operating Systems, UNIX, Servers, Software, Hardware; White papers 2006-06-01
DriverExtractor (exe): At device driver installation, driver files are copied from a specified location to system folders and get integrated into Windows. DriverExtractor can reverse the installation process by searching for all device driver files, retrieving them from Windows system folders and coping into a specified location. Basically, DriverExtractor creates a driver...; Tags: Device Driver, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software; Software downloads 2006-05-24
eScan Corporate for MailScan (exe): eScan for MailScan is a high-performance, device-driver based, complete Anti-Virus and Content-Security solution for Workstations and File-Servers. eScan Corporate for MailScan can be installed only on machines which already have MailScan installed. For normal workstations and servers, you need to install the regular eScan Corporate for Windows. eScan is a...; Tags: Antivirus, High-performance, Device Driver, MicroWorld Technologies, eScan Corporate, Workstations, Leadership, Management; Software downloads 2006-05-23
Custom Audio Effects in Windows Vista: Microsoft Windows Vista allows third-party audio hardware manufacturers to include custom host-based digital signal processing effects as part of their audio driver's value-added features. These effects are packaged as user-mode system effect Audio Processing Objects (sAPOs). There are three insertion points for sAPOs: pre-mix render, post-mix render, and capture. Each...; Tags: Audio, Microsoft Windows Vista, Device Driver, Microsoft Corp., Capture, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2006-05-10
Writing Solaris device drivers in Java: This paper presents an experimental implementation of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that runs inside the kernel of the Solaris operating system. The implementation was done by porting an existing small, portable JVM, Squawk, into the Solaris kernel. The first application of this system is to allow device drivers to...; Tags: Device Driver, Sun Solaris, Programming Languages, Java, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development; White papers 2006-04-01