In the past, one could put a basic 16 bit audio driver on a floppy
and then run the executable for the driver once Windows was up in
safe mode. Once the driver was loaded, WE would work. This was with
Windows 98 and ME though, and might not work anymore even if one has
a floppy drive and a 16 bit audio driver that will work.
I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to create a bootable CD that
could do a minimal startup that is equivalent to safe mode but with
audio drivers installed.
I've recently become interested in this topic as I have a file
located in my Temp folder in the Windows directory called
Perflib_Perfdata_2b0 that I cannot delete. It does not scan as
malware in MS Security Essentials or Malwarebytes or any other
scanner I've used, but I don't like having something I don't know the
function of that I can't delete. I've been hoping to find a way to
delete it possibly using safe mode, but I don't have the boot floppy
anymore so can't try it out with XP to see if it works. Anyway, I
know that one can install drivers manually in safe mode, so if there
is a single driver that would work to get audio going in XP, one
should be able to do it. I may be wrong with XP, there may not be a
single driver solution or you may not be able to manually install
drivers, but if anyone knows more about audio drivers in XP than I
do, it might be worth a try to see if it works.
Regards,
Chris
At 03:58 PM 4/10/2010, Chris Hallsworth wrote:
No as in safe mode only the critical drivers for Windows to run are
loaded. These do not include sound and no doubt proper display drivers.
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From: "Jackie Rumble" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 10:48 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: window-eyes and safe mode
Hi all,
will window-eyes work in safe mode?
I'm running windows vista.
thanks
Jackie
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