Microsoft mouse driver

[Periproct]

Just curious.

Having an idle moment I wondered what I could set extra button on the side
of my mouse to do. Control panel said I had a generic mouse so I decided to
download the drivers. Made a new directory on my desktop to temporarily hold
the driver. Went to Microsoft site and downloaded the driver to my new
folder.
Opened the folder and I had a file 'CyberLink Adviser' showing as a 16,390
KB shortcut. Downloaded the file again to the same folder and I now have the
correctly named 16,390 KB driver file. (IPx64_1033_7.10.344.0.exe)

Why did I get the strangely named file first time around?

 

[XX]

Just curious.

Having an idle moment I wondered what I could set extra button on the side
of my mouse to do. Control panel said I had a generic mouse so I decided
to download the drivers. Made a new directory on my desktop to temporarily
hold the driver. Went to Microsoft site and downloaded the driver to my
new folder.
Opened the folder and I had a file 'CyberLink Adviser' showing as a 16,390
KB shortcut. Downloaded the file again to the same folder and I now have
the correctly named 16,390 KB driver file. (IPx64_1033_7.10.344.0.exe)

Why did I get the strangely named file first time around?

The moral here is; don't fix what's not broke.

 

[johnbee]

The moral here is; don't fix what's not broke.

Matey you have no guts. The only ways to learn are to read manuals and try
things. 'Cyberlink Advisor' is a bit of software which tells one something
or other about one's machine. My guess is that the man got in a slight
muddle about where he had put the driver, and also that he earlier had been
downloading said Adviser and he navigated to the wrong place. One of the
very worst things about Windows 7 is finding files. They even made the
search facility bad to make it even harder to find things (do a search and
see that the bloomin thing tells you the pathname in the form of variables,
not the variable values so that if you don't know what the heck
%rootsys%sysroot%roamroot%plongo% etc. is, you're stuffed.
Hint to original bloke: even if I am talking baloney about what you did, it
is not a bad idea to put things onto the desktop in the first instance..

 

[Zaidy036]

Matey you have no guts. The only ways to learn are to read manuals and try
things. 'Cyberlink Advisor' is a bit of software which tells one something
or other about one's machine. My guess is that the man got in a slight
muddle about where he had put the driver, and also that he earlier had been
downloading said Adviser and he navigated to the wrong place. One of the
very worst things about Windows 7 is finding files. They even made the
search facility bad to make it even harder to find things (do a search and
see that the bloomin thing tells you the pathname in the form of variables,
not the variable values so that if you don't know what the heck
%rootsys%sysroot%roamroot%plongo% etc. is, you're stuffed.
Hint to original bloke: even if I am talking baloney about what you did, it
is not a bad idea to put things onto the desktop in the first instance..

A better search engine is "Everything". Free at http://www.voidtools.com/

 

[Char Jackson]

A better search engine is "Everything". Free at http://www.voidtools.com/

Excellent, thanks.

 

[Periproct]

Matey you have no guts. The only ways to learn are to read manuals and
try things. 'Cyberlink Advisor' is a bit of software which tells one
something or other about one's machine. My guess is that the man got in a
slight muddle about where he had put the driver, and also that he earlier
had been downloading said Adviser and he navigated to the wrong place.
One of the very worst things about Windows 7 is finding files. They even
made the search facility bad to make it even harder to find things (do a
search and see that the bloomin thing tells you the pathname in the form
of variables, not the variable values so that if you don't know what the
heck %rootsys%sysroot%roamroot%plongo% etc. is, you're stuffed.
Hint to original bloke: even if I am talking baloney about what you did,
it is not a bad idea to put things onto the desktop in the first
instance..

As in the original post I created the folder on the desktop to hold the
driver. So new, empty folder to hold the file while I installed the driver.
I've never used or downloaded Cyberlink Advisor before.

Don't have a clue what this means.
"Matey you have no guts. The only ways to learn are to read manuals and try
things."

At least we agree on this
"it is not a bad idea to put things onto the desktop in the first instance..
"