ms sidewinder strategic commander drivers

Hi gang
Anyone who knows how to get this piece of HW working?
Tried the "very" old drivers which came with the HW (and has worked in XP SP2) but they doesn't seem to work (at least for me).
Take care, Ubbe

I do not expect to be able to get it working uner Vista. As you mentioned, even getting it to work under Xp was a bit of hassle with the drivers being so old, and MSFT dropping support of their gaming hardware devices.
"Ubbe" wrote in message

Hi gang
Anyone who knows how to get this piece of HW working?
Tried the "very" old drivers which came with the HW (and has worked in XP SP2) but they doesn't seem to work (at least for me).
Take care, Ubbe

I too have been trying to install my Strat Commander under Vista Beta and now Vista RC1. As yet no luck, although under Windows XP I had no problems at all. I have a feeling it might be something to do with the virtual keyboard driver that's preventing installation. If anyone does work out how to install it I would be very grateful to hear from you.
"Ubbe" wrote:

Hi gang
Anyone who knows how to get this piece of HW working?
Tried the "very" old drivers which came with the HW (and has worked in XP SP2) but they doesn't seem to work (at least for me).
Take care, Ubbe

I too have been trying to install my Strat Commander under Vista Beta and now Vista RC1. As yet no luck, although under Windows XP I had no problems at all. I have a feeling it might be something to do with the virtual keyboard driver that's preventing installation. If anyone does work out how to install it I would be very grateful to hear from you.
"Ubbe" wrote:

Hi gang
Anyone who knows how to get this piece of HW working?
Tried the "very" old drivers which came with the HW (and has worked in XP SP2) but they doesn't seem to work (at least for me).
Take care, Ubbe

hello all,
sorry if it is not the done thing to ressurect an old post, but does anyone have an update on whether it is possible to get this beasty to work?

Hi, TurboToes.
Its fine to resurrect an old post. But be sure to quote that old thread so that we readers have some idea of what it was all about.
Since I use a newsreader, rather than the web-based interface, I'm not sure which button to check to be sure that the prior message gets quoted, but it was there the last time I looked at that interface. Like most experienced users of newsgroups (which Microsoft Communities really is), I prefer to use a newsreader, such as Outlook Express in WinXP or Windows Mail in Vista. If you would like to try WM, just click this link:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
That single click (unless you are blocked by something like a corporate firewall) should start Windows Mail, set up an account for the Microsoft public news server (which is free and does not require you to log on), subscribe you to this .vista.hardware_devices NG, and download the 300 latest headers for you. From there, you can click Tools | Options... and customize WM to suit yourself. For example, on the Send tab, you can check the box to "Include message in reply".
Then just navigate to the old post, click Reply Group, and add your comments or question, then Send.
If that old post is not within the most recent 300, you may need to go back to Tools | Options... and click the Read tab. Under News, the default is to get 300 at a time; you can up this to as high as 1,000, or remove the check entirely to get ALL the messages still available on the news server. Be warned that some NGs have tens of thousands of messages and it can take a looong time to get them all, even with broadband. And this checkbox is global, not by NG. So you might want to get all messages for this hardware NG, which has just over 3,000, and then put the check back in the box before visiting .vista.general, for example, which has nearly 12,000. (Some active NGs have over 100,000!)
You probably know most of this, but there are always some newbies "lurking" (also known as "reading over our shoulders"), which is a GOOD thing in NGs, and this might be interesting to them.
The main point - if you don't quote the prior message, then we readers are left scratching our head as to the exact question, even when you quote the Subject line. If you don't quote the old thread, then please start a new one, rather than "resurrect" the old.
Sorry. Didn't mean to write a book, but when I get started... ;^}
RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX rc@grandecom.net Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Mail 7.0 in Vista Ultimate x64)
"turbotoes" wrote in message

hello all,
sorry if it is not the done thing to ressurect an old post, but does anyone have an update on whether it is possible to get this beasty to work?

Hey Mr. White,
Why don't address the person's question as opposed to trashing them for forum etiquette.
Let me provide you with some forum etiquette. Do not troll.
"R. C. White, MVP" wrote:

Hi, TurboToes.
Its fine to resurrect an old post. But be sure to quote that old thread so that we readers have some idea of what it was all about.
Since I use a newsreader, rather than the web-based interface, I'm not sure which button to check to be sure that the prior message gets quoted, but it was there the last time I looked at that interface. Like most experienced users of newsgroups (which Microsoft Communities really is), I prefer to use a newsreader, such as Outlook Express in WinXP or Windows Mail in Vista. If you would like to try WM, just click this link:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
That single click (unless you are blocked by something like a corporate firewall) should start Windows Mail, set up an account for the Microsoft public news server (which is free and does not require you to log on), subscribe you to this .vista.hardware_devices NG, and download the 300 latest headers for you. From there, you can click Tools | Options... and customize WM to suit yourself. For example, on the Send tab, you can check the box to "Include message in reply".
Then just navigate to the old post, click Reply Group, and add your comments or question, then Send.
If that old post is not within the most recent 300, you may need to go back to Tools | Options... and click the Read tab. Under News, the default is to get 300 at a time; you can up this to as high as 1,000, or remove the check entirely to get ALL the messages still available on the news server. Be warned that some NGs have tens of thousands of messages and it can take a looong time to get them all, even with broadband. And this checkbox is global, not by NG. So you might want to get all messages for this hardware NG, which has just over 3,000, and then put the check back in the box before visiting .vista.general, for example, which has nearly 12,000. (Some active NGs have over 100,000!)
You probably know most of this, but there are always some newbies "lurking" (also known as "reading over our shoulders"), which is a GOOD thing in NGs, and this might be interesting to them.
The main point - if you don't quote the prior message, then we readers are left scratching our head as to the exact question, even when you quote the Subject line. If you don't quote the old thread, then please start a new one, rather than "resurrect" the old.
Sorry. Didn't mean to write a book, but when I get started... ;^}
RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX rc@grandecom.net Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Mail 7.0 in Vista Ultimate x64)
"turbotoes" wrote in message
hello all,
sorry if it is not the done thing to ressurect an old post, but does anyone have an update on whether it is possible to get this beasty to work?