[access-uk] Re: Help with drivers please

  • From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:04:40 -0000

Thanks for that.  Tended to assume someone else wanted some dosh.  It
is a useful program.

From Ray
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-----Original Message-----
George Bell
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with drivers please


It is free - just register it.

George.

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ray's Home
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:19 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with drivers please

Is Belarc Advisor. paid for software?  Mines demanding
registration,
but I'd thought it was free.

From Ray
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-----Original Message-----
Steve Nutt
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with drivers please


Hi George,

I have myself done unattended installs, but with modern
motherboards,
it is
more tricky, as those things need to have their own drivers,
and
sometimes
don't get detected by Windows.  So this is one thing I would
caution
against
without sight.

As for the Windows key, if you have access to Windows,
before the
reinstall,
you can get the key using Belarc Advisor.

All the best

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
George Bell
Sent: Saturday 16 February 2008 13:45
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with drivers please

Hi Jackie,

In theory, and even in practice, it is possible to do what
is called
an
"Unattended install" of Windows.  Professional System
Administrators
do it
all the time.

However, it first does require some technical expertise, and
of course
you
need a pair of eyes to get certain details such as the CD
Key.

To put it in very simple terms, essentially you need to
create an
"Answer
File".  Provided this is assembled 100% correctly - the
emphasis being
on
100% - the answer file will then provide the answers to the
questions
a
Windows installation asks you during the process.

George.

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jackie Cairns
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 1:34 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with drivers please

Well Andy, I'm going to be controversial here and say that
those who
say it
can be done are being ever so slightly economical with the
truth.  If
you
install Windows from scratch, as in a complete full copy,
you have to
know
what it's asking you, and unless you've got a photographic
memory and
can
recall every step without a sighted person being within
reach of the
screen,
I don't think you can do it.

If you have recovery disks that you tend to get with a
machine in a
High
Street store, it generally wants to know things like
language, and
your name
etc.  There aren't so many steps to go through with a
recovery as
there are
with a full installation of the actual Operating System from
scratch.
Personally, because I'm cautious, I wouldn't do it without
sighted
assistance, just in case I was asked an unexpected question
and
pressed the
wrong option to accept.  I just wouldn't do it.

If it has been done with no sighted assistance by a totally
blind
person
from scratch, then well done.

Jackie



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