How to find Windows Vista drivers for all your hardwares installed

If you have a new Windows Vista-based computer, here's how to find drivers for all your hardware.

Welcome to the 21st century

Fortunately, finding drivers isn't the chore it once was. When Microsoft released Windows XP in 2001, it also introduced Windows Update, a website for finding and installing important software and driver updates. With Windows Vista, Microsoft has simplified the process of finding and installing drivers even more.

Windows Update is now a fully integrated part of Windows, and Microsoft has worked with hardware manufacturers to make sure plenty of new drivers are available. More than 31,000 updated drivers were ready when Windows Vista was completed—far more than the 12,000 that were available at the completion of Windows XP—and more are becoming available every day through Windows Update.

In many cases, you don't even need Windows Update to install new devices. Often when you plug in a new device or install a new add-on card in your computer, Windows Vista will detect the hardware and automatically install the correct driver in less than a minute. A notification lets you know when installation begins and when it's complete. You don't have to do anything.

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Windows Vista Hardware Assessment

The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment is a tool that will find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Through use of the detailed inventory data, the tool will assess and report whether the computers can run Windows Vista, where to find drivers for devices on the computers, and provide recommendations for hardware upgrades, where appropriate.

The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment tool does not require the deployment of agent software on the computers being inventoried and assessed. It provides a secure, quick, and easy way to determine which computers, in a networked environment, are Windows Vista ready.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86); Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2

• Hardware Requirements:


• 1.6-GHz or faster processor minimum
• 1 GB of RAM minimum
• 1 GB of available hard-disk space required
• 10/100 Mbps network adapter required


• Software Requirements: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition for storing inventory and assessment data. Microsoft Word 2003 SP2 or Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Excel 2003 SP2 or Microsoft Excel 2007 for generating reports.

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How to make Dual Booting Windows Vista and Linux

Assuming that you are doing a fresh install:

• First install Windows Vista on your system.
• After the Windows Vista install, we start with the Linux installation.

Please make sure not to resize the Vista partition during the installation of the Linux distribution! Due to changes in NTFS versions, current Linux partitioning program, no standard Windows partitioning programs can properly alter the partition that Vista is installed on.

Select GRUB as the bootloader to be installed. After completing the install we will be able to boot into Linux only as the MBR will be overwritten.

Now we need to modify the bootmenu to add an entry for Windows Vista.

For this we will edit the file "/boot/grub/menu.lst". To add an entry for Windows Vista, we need to add the following lines at the end of the file.

If Vista is installed on 1st partition 1st IDE hard drive:

title         "Windows Vista"
root         (hd0,0)
chainloader      +1

If Vista is installed on 1st partition 1st SATA/SCSI hard drive:

title         "Windows Vista"
root         (sd0,0)
chainloader      +1

Depending on your Vista Setup, you can modify the above code. The only area that should need modification is the line that starts with "root". The item that will likely need modification is the drive and partition information.

Save the file and restart your system to see the new bootmenu.

Window Vista Tips : Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (Beta version )

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 ( Beta ) is going to be released in October 29. First it is going to be released among small group of Technology Adoption Program customers. Final release is yet to be confirmed.

Following area swill be covered in Windows Vista Service pack 2.

Windows Vista SP2 adds Windows Search 4.0 for faster and improved relevancy in searches.
Windows Vista SP2 contains the Bluetooth 2.1 Feature Pack supporting the most recent specification for Blue-tooth Technology.
Ability to record data on to Blu-Ray media natively in Windows Vista.
Adds Windows Connect Now (WCN) to simplify Wi-Fi Configuration.
Windows Vista SP2 enables the exFAT file system to support UTC timestamps, which allows correct file synchronization across time zones.

From Windows Vista Blog

Window Reviews : Windows Vista vs Windows 7

Here's a video on which one of the two is faster - faster boot time..

And the winner is....... WINDOWS 7