Hi James, You're most welcome. I can't say this for sure, but I don't think it would replace drivers on your system until you actually ran it. Indeed, I'm sure the utility has the best of intentions, but I suppose that in my case it simply goofed and so I paid for it. Smile Still, I think it's best to upgrade drivers by seeing what the manufacturer's website has on a per-device basis. And as for primary hardware devices, like hard rives, memory, etc., I would say that if it's working, leave it alone, which is an old reliable adage, for me. Smile Ah, experience is a wonderful teacher, isn't it, if we learn the lessons it offers. smile
All the best, Rod -----Original Message----- From: James Bentley [mailto:bentleyj1...@att.net] Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 11:34 PM To: Rod Hutton Cc: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: Re: Accessible Driver Updater? Rod, Thanks for your detailed discription of what happened. I have a friend who just discovered Driver Detective on her system. She is certain that she never installed that software. Up on my reccomendation, she deleted it. I hope her system doesn't go down. I'll email her and suggest that she might want to consider backing up her important files. Thanksfor the heads up. James Bentley -----Original Message----- From: Rod Hutton Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 10:20 PM To: 'James Bentley' Cc: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: RE: Accessible Driver Updater? Hi James, Complete failure of both drives. It started with the primary drive starting to get errors, and Windows prompted me to backup the drive since clearly it was failing. So I backup that drive, and then the same thing happened to the secondary drive, a totally separate drive in the other drive bay. Had to start from scratch with brand new drives. What a nightmare. I figure the Driver Detective simply installed the wrong drivers for both drives and this unbalanced the msomehow, causing them to fail. Never again. Smile All the best, Rod -----Original Message----- From: James Bentley [mailto:bentleyj1...@att.net] Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 11:10 PM To: Rod Hutton; 'Dave'; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: Re: Accessible Driver Updater? What kind of damage occurred to the two hard drives? Just curious. James bentley -----Original Message----- From: Rod Hutton via Talk Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:39 PM To: 'Dave' ; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: RE: Accessible Driver Updater? Hi Dave, I lost two hard drives on the same PC using one of those utilities. It was called Driver Detective, and this goes back probably seven or eight years ago. For this reason, I don't recommend these utilities at all. Hth, Rod -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Dave via Talk Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 3:43 PM To: Window Eyes support list Subject: Accessible Driver Updater? Hello to the List, I have a Win 7 64 bit system, running Win eyes 8.4. Almost every time I use this system, some time during the usage, I loose Speech. this happens mostly when I am using I.E. 11 and attempting to read a web site. However, the system can loose speech, or Lock up and any time, it doesn't always happen when surfing the web. I have considered upgrading to Win Eyes 9.1, but am still going to wait for a 9.2. I don't want to trade fixes for one problem, and get some new ones. I have done everything I can think of to make this system as clean as possible, trying to not have software conflicts. I thought I would download and use one of those programs that update all Drivers found on the system. There are several of these kinds of programs, and some are probably better than others. Have any of you used one of these programs, and was it read well by Window eyes? If you had good results, and was not over whelmed with Pop Ups and other odd things happening after using such a program, can any of you recommend what worked for you? Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/rod_hutton%40h otmail.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/bentleyj1952%4 0att.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
