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Don't pick up that phone

...Hooper said, noting the most anticipated problem will come from people who have older modems. Without updated drivers -- software that is used to let modems communicate with each other -- modems that are three to four years old may have problems...

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USB improvements make gadgetry easier to use

...adapter into my laptop's USB port, installed the driver software from a floppy disk and was on the network within five...for Windows to ask you to insert the disk with the driver software. Others require you to install the software, restart...

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OS X After 6 months of tweaking, it's ready

...underpinnings. They keep OS X soldiering on if individual applications crash; the system can be upended by buggy hardware driver software, a weakness it shares with Microsoft's Windows XP, but Apple has fewer drivers to police than Microsoft. Third...

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Inject new life into PC with upgrades

...much as $400. For all but the most hard-core of gamers, cutting-edge, factory-fresh cards are overkill. Driver software tends to be buggy, and often gaming software has to be tweaked to utilize all the latest features of these cards...

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CueCat kicks up a lot of kitty litter

...open mouth. It connects to the keyboard port of my computer with a Y-cable. To get it working I had to install driver software and register on the company's Web site, providing my name, e-mail address, age, sex and ZIP code. So what...

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Take another look at home laser pictures

...ML-1210 was a simple matter of hooking the printer up to my computer's parallel port and installing the Windows driver software from a CD. The unit also comes with a Universal Serial Port connector and will work with most Windows and Macintosh...

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Wait before jumping on the XP bandwagon

...the makers of many consumer-oriented video cards, cameras, printers and other gadgets never bothered to develop driver software to work with it. Windows 2000 improved NT's usability and compatibility -- so much that Microsoft used it as the...

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XP, imperfectly better Windows

...forced restart. Three-quarters of these, by Microsoft's estimate, are the fault of buggy third-party device-driver software. That means they're also Microsoft's fault: The code that makes a digital camera or a disk drive work shouldn't...

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In setting up a home Wi-Fi network, key is the router

...USB adapters work fine with laptops, too. To get the wireless network adapters working, we'll have to install driver software and run through a setup routine to make the computers recognize the hardware. The instructions with most of the adapters...

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