September 28, 2005, 4:34 PM
Windows XP 64 bit edition and Microsoft IntelliPoint
Posted by Per Hansson. Filed under: blog
I tested Windows for AMD 64bit systems quite a while ago when it was still in beta stadium, I could then live with the fact that drivers for most of the hardware was not available and many off the applications crashed now and then since I was only beta testing the thing for fun…
Fast-forwarding a few months and Microsoft releases the OS; driver support from many companies is still scarce at best so I hold off testing the thing for a while…
After another month or two a friend to me decides to build an awesome AMD killer rig and asks me if I want to help him build it, of course I wont disappoint him, after all I want a feel for the new OS on a fast system… Said and done, spent allot of time installing, tweaking and making this little puppy an as perfect install as I could. Installing all the latest drivers, and tweaking it some more… The fun stops when I try to install drivers for his Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse; there are no 64-bit drivers for hardware made by the same company that made the OS!
After seeing this my friend kindly asks me to install the 32-bit version of XP, me: (sigh) yea sure, I did not spend too much time making that system perfect anyway… So to Microsoft I now ask, where are the drivers we have been promised?
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I tested Windows for AMD 64bit systems quite a while ago when it was still in beta stadium, I could then live with the fact that drivers for most of the hardware was not available and many off the applications crashed now and then since I was only beta testing the thing for fun…
Fast-forwarding a few months and Microsoft releases the OS; driver support from many companies is still scarce at best so I hold off testing the thing for a while…
After another month or two a friend to me decides to build an awesome AMD killer rig and asks me if I want to help him build it, of course I wont disappoint him, after all I want a feel for the new OS on a fast system… Said and done, spent allot of time installing, tweaking and making this little puppy an as perfect install as I could. Installing all the latest drivers, and tweaking it some more… The fun stops when I try to install drivers for his Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse; there are no 64-bit drivers for hardware made by the same company that made the OS!
After seeing this my friend kindly asks me to install the 32-bit version of XP, me: (sigh) yea sure, I did not spend too much time making that system perfect anyway… So to Microsoft I now ask, where are the drivers we have been promised?
Is it really needed ? I haven’t bothered installing Intellipoint for a long time as it’s just another process launched at startup that I don’t need (the default driver works perfectly for me).
Yes, if you want to be able to configure the many buttons on the Intellimouse Explorer for example or enable the many non-standard shortcut keys etc on the Microsoft Keyboard he bought…