Vista NOT finding drivers!!!!!

EVERYTHING i install has to be put in manually. when i added a printer, and a
camera, and an external hard drive, and my xbox 360 using media center, Vista
never found the drivers. i had to manually set it to find the drivers in
c/windows/system 32. even though i had discs for some of them. once it looks
in system32, everything is fine. but why doesn't vista find the drivers, or
know where to look?

I don't quite understand it. When I installed my printer it installed itself
more or less. The only thing I had to do was to set up the Language, time
zone and my phone and name for the fax machine (it is a combo). The same was
true for any USB devices--they typically come alive by themselves since it
is Plug and Play.

The LAN connections materialized out of nowhere, it seems. I am talking here
about an OEM Vista on DELL T7400. It is a new quad.

If you install a piece of hardware and you have installation DVD and it does
not start after you put it in, then go to the DVD/CD Drive, find autorun and
click on it. It should do the trick, I guess. The app on the DVD
(install.exe or start.exe perhaps) will know where all drivers are located.

"Tommy" <> wrote in message
news:BB8F57CD-3FBA-491A-9E2E-...
> EVERYTHING i install has to be put in manually. when i added a printer,
> and a
> camera, and an external hard drive, and my xbox 360 using media center,
> Vista
> never found the drivers. i had to manually set it to find the drivers in
> c/windows/system 32. even though i had discs for some of them. once it
> looks
> in system32, everything is fine. but why doesn't vista find the drivers,
> or
> know where to look?

not with me. even with the disc i need to make it go to c/windows/system32.
don't know why.

"alexB" wrote:

> I don't quite understand it. When I installed my printer it installed itself
> more or less. The only thing I had to do was to set up the Language, time
> zone and my phone and name for the fax machine (it is a combo). The same was
> true for any USB devices--they typically come alive by themselves since it
> is Plug and Play.
>
> The LAN connections materialized out of nowhere, it seems. I am talking here
> about an OEM Vista on DELL T7400. It is a new quad.
>
> If you install a piece of hardware and you have installation DVD and it does
> not start after you put it in, then go to the DVD/CD Drive, find autorun and
> click on it. It should do the trick, I guess. The app on the DVD
> (install.exe or start.exe perhaps) will know where all drivers are located.
>
> "Tommy" <> wrote in message
> news:BB8F57CD-3FBA-491A-9E2E-...
> > EVERYTHING i install has to be put in manually. when i added a printer,
> > and a
> > camera, and an external hard drive, and my xbox 360 using media center,
> > Vista
> > never found the drivers. i had to manually set it to find the drivers in
> > c/windows/system 32. even though i had discs for some of them. once it
> > looks
> > in system32, everything is fine. but why doesn't vista find the drivers,
> > or
> > know where to look?
>
>