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just an open question about installing updates and drivers

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  • Drivers
  • Clean Install
  • Windows 7
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August 30, 2014 5:27:44 PM

so today I got bored and did a clean install of win7, and something dawned on me, and I decided to ask how other people tackle a clean install,


So when you are installing the drivers after install, chipset, audio,Lan, USB, do you install one at a time, and restart computer after each driver install, or do you install all drivers and do one restart?

I always installed each driver and did the restart one at a time, figuring I didn't want windows to have a heart attack doing them all at once, but today when I started down loading 163 updates, I was thinking well windows installs 163 updates with out restarting so could you do the same thing with drivers,

does anybody install all the drivers at once, and if so has there ever been a problem,

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August 30, 2014 5:58:18 PM

I usually try and slipstream the drivers and updates or service packs onto the install DVD. Some drivers I do one at a time, others I do in batches. Updates in batches.
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August 30, 2014 6:49:33 PM

I often do driver updates one-at-a-time with your Reboot in between. It's not the heart-attack I'm trying to avoid but simply a residue of poor memory-handlers of years gone past. There's nothing like a reboot and letting Windows have all fresh new memory settings for the next set of drivers.

Of course, there's also the argument that, by doing as many drivers in one memory-pass, perhaps they'd arrange themselves more carefully during future LOADs. Motherboard Driver CDs often load multiple drivers in a single pass before requiring a restart. "If they can, why can't I?"

Of course, installing one driver at a time and any subsequent failure makes identification easier. At the same time, so many drivers now have cross-referencing requirements - HDMI affecting video AND audio, for example. And printer-drivers have long been notorious for Font Corruption because Fonts, Printers and Video Drivers co-exist closely.

For your "163", that's a Windows Update sequence that we all hope and pray Microsoft one day becomes completely and totally perfect. Uh huh... yeah...
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August 30, 2014 10:07:07 PM

Karsten75 said:
I usually try and slipstream the drivers and updates or service packs onto the install DVD. Some drivers I do one at a time, others I do in batches. Updates in batches.



I have not tried slipstreaming win7, I have slipstreamed raid drivers on to a XP disk
with 7 I normally will do install get all updates, install all drivers except video drivers, then delete all restore points,
and make a system image with win7, and just store it on my backup drive, then I can reimage drive with all updates and drivers in about 3 minutes,

but it would be cool to have an install disk with all drivers and updates installed,


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