[RESOLVED] Does this exist?

[Houngan]

I was wondering if anyone had ever compiled a large collection of common drivers for Windows? I'm talking about something huge, that would have .inf files to put in the Windows directory, with perhaps a godawful mess of drivers you could burn onto a CD. Periodic addition files could keep this updated. Does anyone know where or if this exists?

[Darren Wilson]

Yes, & it's on the OEM win98 cd!!!!! If you browse the cd and go to the tools dir, and open reskit, you will find the Win98 resource kit which has such a facility called batchinf. I have used this quite a few times and it does work.

[TuffENuff]

We are compiling one at the our shop right now. I am currently looking into the legalities of selling it. It is not all the drivers but there are tons of them. We might even do volumes so old ISA video card drivers are not in with the GeForce2 drivers.

[pcshark]

We've got one like that floating around our shop. It's got tons of printer, NIC, video, sound, etc. etc drivers plus a bunch of key software utilities and about 150 diskette images. It's surprising sometimes how little space most drivers actually take up.

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[WildTech]

Like pcshark, my shop has a couple such cd's floating around. I wasn't in this business very long before I realized what a brain fart it was to download the same drivers over and over again.. I run a 2nd drive in our shop machine just for driver and utility programs storage. We have folders set up for sound drivers, video drivers, etc. Anytime we need a driver don't have, we download it to that drive, save it in the proper folder and then at the next convenient time, we burn it to our driver cds. Works great!! We do the same with all of our downloaded utility programs. Saves lots of time and I rarely hear "Does anyone know where I can get a driver for an ESS sound card???" I hate that!!!

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[Milenko]

I've done about the same as the rest of ya'll. It doesn't take much to just throw drivers in a folder when you download them. I've posted all the drivers i've ever downloaded on our stores website: ftp://cctech.dhs.org

They are in the drivers folder (natuarally) catagorized and all that. Anyone is welcome to them if they want.

[Danrak]

We have what we call "do-it-all" cds we use. It has the win95a/b, win98a/b cabs, common programs and updates, plus drivers. We are currently trying to download all drivers on a company by company basis, and have a server where we store them all. I think so far we may have managed to get just about all HP printer drivers. I will have to see if we can get them on a ftp site for people to download if anyone wants.