Which is fine, as long as you don’t act like a jackass about it. One rjung is too much.
Life is too short to argue about operating systems.
Gaming regularly pushes the envelope of computing performance, and because of the newness of the technologies, particularly wrt graphics, the industry is still trying to develop standards. Until the core technologies are well-known enough to be considered as commodities, we’ll keep on trading system stability for higher performance.
No, that’s not it. I defintely remember an actual laptop where the back of the screen was a pyramid thingy. I remember talking to people about it! And them agreeing how dumb it was!
At http://www.apple-history.com/frames/? they have pictures of all Apples. Maybe you can find it there?
I occasionally toy with the theory that people buy Windows PCs primarily because they’ve got a network of “friends” whom they can “borrow” software from… 
If you would specify the manufacturer, model number, etc., of this impact printer, someone here might be able to help you with that problem.
I know this is the Pit, more for whining about it than fixing it, but someone *might[.i] be able to help you.
I’d feel so much more sympathy for you guys if my computer hadn’t spontaneously caught fire on tuesday night. 
Do you ever toy with the idea of not being a tit in computer threads?
rjung is right. Though I suspect it actually started with bringing home software from work. So, basically, Lotus made the IBM PC what it is today. Does nobody remember the 1980s? Either from work or from school, or whatever, software was the vector from which computers spread to the home.
Since posting this thread things have got worse. I tried to install older drivers. I oculdn’t roll the newer ones back because they didn’t appear to be there. Now when windows loads up the screen is blank.
I put in a ‘windows recovery disk’ in the hope of doing a repair install. It just went a head and installed a new copy of windows alongside the other one without asking me.
I’ve tried everything, even working blind (trying to load what I now know to be the drivers that work with my card without being able to see what I’m doing)
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I don’t know if this is the best approach, but I’ve found that, for whatever mysterious reason, going scorched-earth and wiping the hard drive can make some of these issues magically disappear. I don’t know why, I don’t know how, but it seems that the old nasty habit of Windows accumulating a layer of incapacitating software detritus has been with us since Winblows 3.1 (or earlier) and never really went away. I have no idea if it’s viruses, corrupted drivers, unintentionally-erased .dll files that don’t raise alarms, .dll files that aren’t supposed to be there, other junk you have to go searching for a week through every cabinet to extract…I just don’t know. All I can say is every once in a while things just go kablooey, usually after some change I expected would be harmless (like installing a new app., or trying to update a driver). I back up all my goddamn files, and reformat the motherfucker. I put everything back on, and hey presto, it works.
I think you mean “jerk” and he lacks the capability IMO.
Did you try starting in Safe Mode, and load the new drivers from there? Windows will use the default display drivers even if you have bunged the correct ones, and you should be able to see what you are doing.
Safe mode just reboots. So does safe mode with command prompt.
Boot in VGA mode just boots into the blank screen.
It seems pretty clear he has tried that, and opted to fly blind (though I can’t understand why) when he was at the end of his rope.
I say wipe it. Put on only the stuff you absolutely have to have, back up that vsn. of your system, add a little more, make another copy, add more, etc. As soon as something breaks, you can revert with System Restore to whatever you had at the prior step and hopefully take a different approach. This is the only way I’ve found that works with stuff like this. I’m sure there are less crude methods, but not may of us have time to earn a certificate degree in WinTel tech support (and it might not help if we did). It’s a gigantic pain in the ass, and time consuming as all Hell, but 9 times out of 10, wipe and restore works. Usually the stuff you can’t put back on without something breaking you don’t really need all that badly anyway.
Oh I don’t know. There are all sorts of uses:
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I’m afriad that’s on 9x12. And you wouldn’t advocate breaching copyright, would you? 