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I meant something like a serial number ID, or GUID, or any other kind of pointer to the device, that changes between installs. Anyways, if @Dave-H uploads an export of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Elantech from a fully working install, i could check it myself. It should be easy to notice (probably). IfranView can extract all frames of a .gif file. Maybe XnView can do the same?

This would mean to give up on all the hardware in the PC, except the 7 disk drives. Not to mention the decade old install of XP with most issues ironed out, all my little tweaks, and all my programs. At work i used a Dell D620 to do my job at repairing tablets, i3/i5/i7s and all kinds of other new crap. I had to replace it with a D830 after a HDD break and another (still undiagnosed) failure, that made even a freshly installed XP to BSOD at most inappropriate times. Still keep the D620 just in case, though. My coworkers tried to shoehorn a tower workstation on me, but they took it away after months of it just collecting dust under my table, lol. I only used that to test disks and PCI cards...

@Dave-H, is there something in those registry keys, that looks like a pointer to "install-specific" device? (Sorry, i can't think of a way to word this simpler currently) Like, when you reinstall your i.e. LAN card, and the first time it's named "ethernet adapter blabla", but the second install changes the name to "ethernet adapter blabla #2" and so on... Maybe, the backup you made points to the previous install of the device, but the following reinstall points to the new name, so importing the backup won't just work?

My issue with PotPlayer is that the recent versions need a SSE2 capable CPU, so i'm stuck on v.1.6.57398. I could get around this for a few updates by transplanting PotPlayerMini.exe from older builds, but it eventually stopped working - the player starts, but when i try to play a file it crashes...

Try again while having FileMon (or ProcMon) monitor the filesystem access, it should be easy to spot.

Is there a way to make http://virustotal.com/gui/ work on NM27? I tried various user agents, but that doesn't seem to make a difference. It just keeps looping that animation, and there are a dozen errors in the console. My build is 27.9.7-sse

@Dave-H One of the comments there links to the Chemtable blog, where there are keys for this and another of their programs. Those should still work for the current version.

REGCLEAN.7z Grab it while you can, i'll probably remove it when i need quota for my next attachment.

@Goodmaneuver There is no need for a KVM if the monitor has enough ports to enable connecting both cards at the same time. Just switch the input from the monitor controls, or enable auto-switching if it has such option. Anyways, we don't know yet what setup Methanoid uses.

Well, yesterday i suggested a new tool (some say it's tracking is better than Revo) , which is/was currently offered with lifetime license... But since Dave didn't seem interested, i removed the link. And now even my post is gone (den on cleaning duty?)... P.S. Where can i print a few spare fingers? Accidents happen, you know... lol

Isn't it enough for you if you disable the unused one in Device Manager? How do you manage the video output though? Do you have a separate monitor for each card? Or you use two cables hooked to different ports of a single monitor? Or just one monitor and one cable which you move between the cards on every reboot?

mail, huh... http://eriedel.info/en/files/pcorn/popcorn.html I had v1.7xx of this on my Win98, never needed to use it though. Found it while looking for the DOS game Popcorn, lol.

LOL Anyways, if (ever) you get to such point, check the process command line and as which user it is started.

Check HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Select\Current , it says which one :P

So, ETDCtrlHelper.exe won't run when you start it, but runs fine if it is auto-started? Run Process Explorer as administrator, double-click on the auto-started ETDCtrlHelper.exe and post a screenshot of the Image tab.

https://downloads.bl4ckb0x.de/ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/driver2/hpt37x/

FYI this activates the Polymer1 layout.

@jaclaz About the co-installer usage - it may just replicate things done through the .inf or with additional programs (like SmartGesture_Win10_32_VER4012 using ATP_Reg.exe to un/register the driver as input filter). Maybe whoever was building each package did it in they way they're more familiar with... No clue what the co-installer does for these specific packages, i didn't even know what a co-installer is before i looked it up and found that M$ article. Try compare two similar versions (one with a co-installer and one without) and find the differences? ------- There is another (lenghty and boring) task, that currently only @Dave-H could do, unless someone else with the same hardware shows up. It is to try to find out the specific functions of the more obscure sections in the .inf like the Group Maps you mentioned earlier. This would involve small modifications to those sections in the .inf, followed by a uninstall, reboot, install, test for changed behaviour of the touchpad and/or its support programs, another reboot, quick test to confirm that it's the same as right after install, then repeat. Quick initial test would be to just clean those sections (leave only the [header], but remove all contents), check if the driver still works and what changed. ------- I was thinking about a different way to tackle this whole driver problem, but we may need a programmer with some knowledge about drivers. That is - since the core driver (.sys) can run in XP, but needs to be "activated" by the accompanying program (that won't start in XP): 1. in Win8.1 record whatever signals the program sends to the driver (log IODeviceControl and similar calls) 2. in XP send those recorded signals to the driver (Sending Commands From Your Userland Program to Your Kernel Driver using IOCTL) 3. in XP if the driver starts working, try to split the recording to smaller parts, so touchpad settings can be changed by sending different signals I previously linked to a list of suggested programs that might do 1. ; Or, decompile the programs and (try to) find the needed signals. For 2. someone has to write a small program. We can omit 3. if not needed.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/install/writing-a-co-installer I think these define the capabilities and/or default settings for each of the supported devices. Better keep the ones for core programs like Explorer for now.

That flickr post mentions an utility that may help. Did you test with a different version of Windows and/or a Linux LiveCD?

Try the stock VfW codecs that come with Windows. To add another program, i've been using iuvcr for both watching and recording TV shows from my tuner card.

More likely the settings on the monitor itself. You know, the physical buttons and such... Why is the bottom part cut?! Not that it matters...

Do you have a way of checking drivers on a different Windows flavour? It could be WinPE for Vista/7/8/10 loaded from USB/network, or a full install. Before i found that driver package, i stumbled upon this and it looks like Win8, so the problem might be with the hardware or something else, and not the driver itself. Also, test with some Linux live CD/USB.

Yes, that's almost certainly it! That thingy is called TrackPoint a.k.a. pointing stick. Some coworkers jokingly call it "clit", lol. The point I was trying to make is that the Asus_UI.exe (which *somehow* runs on my XP, and that will surely run on your XP), MISSES a huge number of possible settings, among them - seemingly - the one you want to change (TapEnable). It is also possible that the program will just skip the registry settings it doesn't recognize, and forward to the driver only the known ones. Make sure to change multiple settings and don't rely only on TapEnable for confirming if the program works.

This doesn't seem right. Which driver from this package did you use? In the PROEmbSw11.exe\PRO1000\WinXP Related\PCIe\ folder there is an .inf file saying I218-LM