Dell inc Express chipset update caused small size web pages

Since theDell Inc. - Video - Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family
microsoft update my web pages come up smaller in size.I used system restore
and it fixed it but wa caused again when automatic update re-loaded how can I
get my web pages back to normal size?

dannymctx65 wrote:
> Since theDell Inc. - Video - Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express
> Chipset Family microsoft update my web pages come up smaller in
> size.I used system restore and it fixed it but wa caused again when
> automatic update re-loaded how can I get my web pages back to
> normal size?

Uninstall that update and never get your hardware updates from Microsoft
again (unless it happens to be Microsoft hardware.)

In your case - get your updates from www.dell.com.. You just go to their
support pages, enter your Service Tag (Serial Number) and select the OS you
have and get all the latest drivers there.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

How do I delete that update without usung system restore?Or can I? And thank
you soooo much for responding

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> dannymctx65 wrote:
> > Since theDell Inc. - Video - Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express
> > Chipset Family microsoft update my web pages come up smaller in
> > size.I used system restore and it fixed it but wa caused again when
> > automatic update re-loaded how can I get my web pages back to
> > normal size?
>
> Uninstall that update and never get your hardware updates from Microsoft
> again (unless it happens to be Microsoft hardware.)
>
> In your case - get your updates from www.dell.com.. You just go to their
> support pages, enter your Service Tag (Serial Number) and select the OS you
> have and get all the latest drivers there.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>

MS-MVP SHEnan wrote� ...never get your hardware updates from Microsoft again
....“

…you, and other MVP’ers seem to think we (the public) installed this Dell
update intentionally. It was a part of the automatic update that MICROSOFT
put out. OOPS, “...we almost gave you the wrong stuff….oh wait, we did!� -MS.

I have my 150+ Dell PCs set to automatically download CRITCAL windows
updates from Microsoft, the maker, the vendor. Microsoft…always trust
downloads?? If we can’t trust what they give us, then who can we trust.
instead of pointing fingers at the end users for downloading the wrong
update, i think you need to point that finger in another direction...peace :/


"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> dannymctx65 wrote:
> > Since theDell Inc. - Video - Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express
> > Chipset Family microsoft update my web pages come up smaller in
> > size.I used system restore and it fixed it but wa caused again when
> > automatic update re-loaded how can I get my web pages back to
> > normal size?
>
> Uninstall that update and never get your hardware updates from Microsoft
> again (unless it happens to be Microsoft hardware.)
>
> In your case - get your updates from www.dell.com.. You just go to their
> support pages, enter your Service Tag (Serial Number) and select the OS you
> have and get all the latest drivers there.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>

JeffComp wrote:
> MS-MVP SHEnan wrote" ...never get your hardware updates from
> Microsoft again ..."
>
> .you, and other MVP'ers seem to think we (the public) installed this
> Dell update intentionally. It was a part of the automatic update that
> MICROSOFT put out. OOPS, "...we almost gave you the wrong stuff..oh
> wait, we did!" -MS.

Installing anything! is the responsibility of the of the onwer of the
computer. Yes it does suck that updates from M/S can F__k up your system but
it's just a fact of life and owing a computer.

By the way driver updates from M/S are an option, just configure windows
update not to display or download these...simple.

--
Mike Pawlak

Mike: Some computers are in fact being offered these updates not as an
option, but as a critical update on Automatic Update.

Tom

| By the way driver updates from M/S are an option, just configure windows
| update not to display or download these...simple.
|
| --
| Mike Pawlak
|
|

Tom [Pepper] Willett wrote:
> Mike: Some computers are in fact being offered these updates not as
> an option, but as a critical update on Automatic Update.
>
> Tom
>
>> By the way driver updates from M/S are an option, just configure
>> windows update not to display or download these...simple.
>>
>> --
>> Mike Pawlak

News to me, live and learn.

--
Mike Pawlak

Mike , you should do you some research before you "guess" whats going on.
we (the 150+ Dells at work) DID NOT ask for any updates besides windows
critical updates. Dell/MS decided it should be a critical update, then
BAM...now our vid is fuc't. It keeps trying to reistall again...ive had 1
dell PC get it 3 times. You would expect the manufacture to give you the
correct software.

quote from Mike-- "it's just a fact of life and owing a computer."
GREAT ANSWER. THATS WHY I OWN AN APPLE.


"MAP" wrote:
> Installing anything! is the responsibility of the of the onwer of the
> computer. Yes it does suck that updates from M/S can F__k up your system but
> it's just a fact of life and owing a computer.
> --
> Mike Pawlak
>
>
>

JeffComp wrote:
> Mike , you should do you some research before you "guess" whats
> going on. we (the 150+ Dells at work) DID NOT ask for any updates
> besides windows critical updates. Dell/MS decided it should be a
> critical update, then BAM...now our vid is fuc't. It keeps trying
> to reistall again...ive had 1 dell PC get it 3 times. You would
> expect the manufacture to give you the correct software.
>
> quote from Mike-- "it's just a fact of life and owing a computer."
> GREAT ANSWER. THATS WHY I OWN AN APPLE.

Sometimes automatic updates does include drivers. Not usually.

However - the automatic updates will not overwrite a newer driver if it is
installed and very few times is the driver that is pushed via Microsoft
Updates *newer* than the one you can get directly from the manufacturer of
said product.

Again - always install the latest driver from the manufacturer.
Never get non-microsoft device drivers from Microsoft.

As for what you own/use. I have and utilize several *nix boxes, OS X
machines and Windows XP/Windows 2003 systems.

In the case of the Dell driver (I have seen this one before) - by the time
the Microsoft push of the Dell driver was done by Microsoft - a few
revisions had already been released by Dell - and if you had downloaded and
installed the latest from the manufacturer (Dell) - then the push/pull from
automatic updates wouldn't happen and you wouldn't have the issues the
Microsoft released driver may have caused.

If you are allowing just automatic updates to control updating Microsoft
products at work - you need to discuss this with your system administrator..
WSUS servers are easy to setup and prevent such things from becoming an
issue.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Hi SS... (hard to tell in between the ranting-IT guys...)

But is updating (my) Dell drivers that simple? (www.del.com, Service Tag,
OS select). Must each driver be individually updated?

I have a new Dell, and haven't yet updated drivers (just getting operating
sysytem updates done, I have XP Media Center Edition 2005).

Thanks!




"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> dannymctx65 wrote:
> > Since theDell Inc. - Video - Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express
> > Chipset Family microsoft update my web pages come up smaller in
> > size.I used system restore and it fixed it but wa caused again when
> > automatic update re-loaded how can I get my web pages back to
> > normal size?
>
> Uninstall that update and never get your hardware updates from Microsoft
> again (unless it happens to be Microsoft hardware.)
>
> In your case - get your updates from www.dell.com.. You just go to their
> support pages, enter your Service Tag (Serial Number) and select the OS you
> have and get all the latest drivers there.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>