R
Ray
Guest
This should be made an option rather than an imposition.
I know there are certain advantages of using it but it should be my decision
if I want to use an unsigned driver or not.
I installed Vista64 because i believed a phrase I saw at microsoft.com
saying Vista64 was great for gamers. Well, us gamers sometimes like to
modify/patch our systems. In my case I bought a USB mouse which will fail to
read all my movements if I use the default USB driver which runs @ ~125MHz
(standard USB speed). But I can modify this usb driver so it will allow my
USB port to run @ 1000MHz. Thus making my mouse superior to almost any other
mouse model in the market right now.
Increasing the USB rate has different results on different models of mice, I
bought mine with the intention of using a 1000MHz USB driver knowing it would
give me superb results for that mouse model, and it worked fine on WinXP,
even on Vista32.
Well now that I just installed Vista64 I'm presented with the surprise that
I can't use my modified driver because it's obviously unsigned (it's custom
made, thus it will never be signed).
Having to press F8 each time Vista boots to disable signed drivers doesn't
sound fair. I should be the one who decides what can and cannot be installed
on my system. Why not make it optional?
I was starting to consider going back to WinXP 32bits if it weren't for the
fact that I found a program which will disable this. Once again, I've been
forced to download and install some third-party software to fix something
that Microsoft simply couldn't present to me as a choice. I mean, it's ok if
you set it on by default so unexpirienced users can't install drivers that
might do who knows what. But why cripple people who know what they are doing?
At least give them a choice other than changing the OS. I can't see how
making this a choice would be a problem.
Thanks for reading.
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I know there are certain advantages of using it but it should be my decision
if I want to use an unsigned driver or not.
I installed Vista64 because i believed a phrase I saw at microsoft.com
saying Vista64 was great for gamers. Well, us gamers sometimes like to
modify/patch our systems. In my case I bought a USB mouse which will fail to
read all my movements if I use the default USB driver which runs @ ~125MHz
(standard USB speed). But I can modify this usb driver so it will allow my
USB port to run @ 1000MHz. Thus making my mouse superior to almost any other
mouse model in the market right now.
Increasing the USB rate has different results on different models of mice, I
bought mine with the intention of using a 1000MHz USB driver knowing it would
give me superb results for that mouse model, and it worked fine on WinXP,
even on Vista32.
Well now that I just installed Vista64 I'm presented with the surprise that
I can't use my modified driver because it's obviously unsigned (it's custom
made, thus it will never be signed).
Having to press F8 each time Vista boots to disable signed drivers doesn't
sound fair. I should be the one who decides what can and cannot be installed
on my system. Why not make it optional?
I was starting to consider going back to WinXP 32bits if it weren't for the
fact that I found a program which will disable this. Once again, I've been
forced to download and install some third-party software to fix something
that Microsoft simply couldn't present to me as a choice. I mean, it's ok if
you set it on by default so unexpirienced users can't install drivers that
might do who knows what. But why cripple people who know what they are doing?
At least give them a choice other than changing the OS. I can't see how
making this a choice would be a problem.
Thanks for reading.
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...384&dg=microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general
