i must mar along with my greeting-

evlogiaandchari

evlogiaandchari

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greetings to everyone at computer forum. it's been a few years since i've been active at a forum, and i thought i'd change that today. so here i am, lucky enough to have found a forum founded on my second greatest and firstly most infatuated past time.

okay, i must mar along with my greeting. i'm working on a friend's computer. it's below the standards for today's machines, and i throught i'd do my best to optimize it- starting with reinstalling a stripped down version of windows. along the way, i've run into a sort of problem. this generic machine doesn't have any source on the internet as to where i can find a greater percent of the hardware drivers. knowing that, onto my question:

is it possible to save the files used to run the hardware on the system as is? and if so, where do i find those?

thank you- if for nothing else, sacrificing the time to read this.
 
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The thing with those "stripped" versions of Windows XP,is that there are critical files missing.If I wanted to use a low-end/old computer I would install Linux :)
 
"stripped" down versions are illegally hacked and pirated. If the discussion turns this route, thread will be closed and/or deleted. Get a legal copy of XP and MS should be able to give them a MS driver.
 
i'm using a program called nlite. in short, the program is used to customize a windows operating system specific for the computer it will be installed to- no excess of drivers, programs and utilities, et cetera. so, if the source of the installation is a legal version of windows, would this manner of tweaking it render it illegal? in essence, i can control the files--vital or not--which will be or will not be written to the hard disk. i prefer linux, and if the person i was installing this for was a bit more literate, i too would suggest that.

anyway, this system is seriously so generic that a lot of the hardware doesn't have a maker still in buisness or something. it's so difficult to find the drivers. so, clarifying the original question at hand: can't i detect the drivers currently being used, save them to a disc, and replace them after the installation?
 
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