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What is a Driver: A program that controls a device. Every device, whether it be a printer, disk drive, or keyboard, must have a driver program. Many drivers, such as the keyboard driver, come with the operating system. For other devices, you may need to load a new driver when you connect the device to your computer. In Windows environments, drivers often have a .DRV extension.

A driver acts like a translator between the device and programs that use the device. Each device has its own set of specialized commands that only its driver knows. In contrast, most programs access devices by using generic commands. The driver, therefore, accepts generic commands from a program and then translates them into specialized commands for the device.

 

VARIOUS WEB SITES THAT MAY BE OF HELP:  I will try and add more as I find more.  Thanks

 

 

1.   http://www.driverguide.com                                               If you need a driver for your computer try here.

 

 2.   http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/                         Apple Macintoshes FTP site

 

3.     http://www.apple.com                                                       Apple Macintosh Web Site

 

4.    http://www.microsoft.com                                                  Microsoft’s homepage

 

5.     http://www.linuxiso.org/                                                   LinuxISO.org - A place to learn about, download, and discuss Linux.

 

6.      http://www.visualparadox.com/                                        Visual Paradox Free 3D Wallpaper

 

7.      http://www.tucows.com/                                                  Tucows Downloads -Download freeware and shareware software

 

8.      http://download.com.com/2001-20-0.html                       Download.com windows Downloads -Download freeware and shareware software

 

9.      http://download.com.com/2001-2003-0.html?tag=dir       Download.com Mac Downloads -Download freeware and shareware software

 

 10.   http://www.bootdisk.com/                                                The majority of tips, tweaks, files, bootdisks, instructions, utilities, links, patches, updates, and all other information contained on this site are                   posted for experienced DOS and Windows users.

 

 

 

APPS THAT I HAVE FOUND TO BE USEFUL

 

DIRECTX SOFTWARE

1.    DirectX 9.0c Redistributable for Software Developers

 

FIREWALL UTILITIES

1.    SYGATE PERSONAL FIREWALL 5.6 – FIREWALL UTILITY

 

FTP

1.    FILEZILLA 3.0.9.1 FILE TRANSFER PROGRAM

 

INTERNET BROWSERS

1.    FIREFOX SETUP 2.0.0.6–INTERNET BROWSER

 

MEDIA PLAYERS

1.    WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER SETUP 9.0.ZIP

 

PC AUDIT AND SYSTEM INFORMATION

1.    BELARC ADVISOR – FREE PERSONAL PC AUDIT

2.              MICROSOFT BASELINE SECURITY ANALYZER

 

PERSONAL SECURITY SOFTWARE & FREE ANTIVIRUS

1.    AROVAX SHIELD – PERSONAL SECURITY SOFTWARE

2.    Avast Home Edition 4.8.1296.90115 - ANTIVIRUS

 

SPYWARE REMOVAL UTILITIES

1.              AD-AWARE 2008 FREE – SPYWARE CLEANING UTILITY

2.              Ad-Aware Free - Anniversary Edition – SPYWARE CLEANING UTILITY

3.              Advanced SystemCare - COMPREHENSIVE PC CARE UTILITY

4.              SPYBOT SEARCH AND DESTROY 1.60 – SPYWARE CLEANING UTILITY

5.              Windows Defender - SPYWARE CLEANING UTILITY

 

WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK

1.    Windows 2000 Service Pack 4

2.    Windows Server 2003 SP1

1.              Windows Server 2003 SP2

2.              Windows XP PRO/HOME/MEDIA CENTER Service Pack 1

3.              Windows XP PRO/HOME/MEDIA CENTER Service Pack 2

4.              Windows XP PRO/HOME/MEDIA CENTER Service Pack 3