Don't use Microsoft's Driver Update button.
Don't use drivers from Microsoft.
Don't update drivers when the drivers are working fine.
Do test along the way when installing things so you know where and what breaks it as others can't guess what you did, when it broke.
Do avoid all registry cleaners.
Bob
About ten days ago I reinstalled Windows XP on to my Dell Dimension 4500 and some problems arose. After updating some of the drivers, now Control Panel< Administrative Tools no longer opens along with some of the other Control Panel subroutines. Please can someone suggest a solution? I have no idea which driver download caused the problem.
thyde
My System
Dimension 4500, 2.53GHz processor, 1024Mb, XP, 160Gb hard disk, 80Gb hard disk, Roxio CD R/RW, Blueyonder Broadband & LAN, Dell Photo All-in-One printer. Iomega 500Gb hard disk, Toshiba 1Tb hard disk.
Dimension 4100, 1GHz processor, 256Mb SDRAM, ME, 20Gb hard disk, Adaptec CD R/DW, HP Deskjet 840C, Scanjet 3300c, Blueyonder Broadband & LAN.
Inspiron 8600, 1.4 Ghz processor, 512Mb SDRAM, XP, 40Gb hard disk, Philips CDRW/DVD disk drive, Blueyonder Broadband & LAN.
Netgear router.

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