Vista - Is it good to update your drivers to the latest "Vista Compatible" version if you plan to stay with XP?

Dear friends:

Is it good to update your drivers to the latest "Vista Compatible"
version if you plan to stay, for the moment, with XP?

Any hint?


Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

Hi Juan,

If you are currently operating XP, then you should only install a driver
that is compatible with your operating system. Read what operating system a
driver update is for. If it's for Vista only, it won't work on XP. Some
drivers are compatible across more than one operating system, but the
download information will clearly state what system the driver will work on.

"Juan I. Cahis" <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:jm8b039mu9pubn64pa5lr4sqk3bsiriv82@4ax.com...
Dear friends:

Is it good to update your drivers to the latest "Vista Compatible"
version if you plan to stay, for the moment, with XP?

Any hint?


Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

Juan I. Cahis wrote:
> Is it good to update your drivers to the latest "Vista Compatible"
> version if you plan to stay, for the moment, with XP?
>
> Any hint?

Juan I. Cahis,

In the future - if you feel your post is relevant to more than one
newsgroup - please cross-post.

You have muliti-posted here and that only complicates things for you and for
those who might be inclined to assist you.

If you look at your other postings (in microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc
and microsoft.public.windowsxp.general) you will note responses.

If you had chosen to cross-post the message here and there - you would have
two responses on all of them - if the responders followed convention.

Your posts are:
http://groups.google.com/groups/prof...4evdP-1gEW1g9w

As for your answer - I will repeat it...

Unless you are running Windows Vista - you have no need for Windows Vista
drivers.

If these are 'unified' drivers for Windows XP/Windows Vista - sure - you
could do that.


However - if you are not having ISSUES with your system as it is - if you do
not need new features that *may* exist with new drivers or if you are not
having any trouble with the device in question - there is little to no
incentive to get new drivers anyway.



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

Juan I. Cahis wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> Is it good to update your drivers to the latest "Vista Compatible"
> version if you plan to stay, for the moment, with XP?
>
> Any hint?
>
>
> Thanks
> Juan I. Cahis
> Santiago de Chile (South America)
> Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

My opinion is that it it isn't broken don't fix it, unless you have a
problem fixed with the newer drivers.
This week on a Sony Vaio laptop running vista I was notified by Vaio
update that new drivers for Vista were available.
Went to the site, inputted my laptop model no etc & downloaded the drivers.

Graphics driver wouldn't install, period.
Soundcard driver did "upgrade" but wouldn't produce any sound.
Did a roll back on the driver & had patchy sound, so have to remove all
traces of the drivers & install the old one to get sound back properly.

The rest of the drivers installed ok but offered me nothing new...in
short, a waste of an hour.

If your computer is running ok, leave it running ok.