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RobertBMills

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July 29th, 2011 13:00

Optiplex 790 - MDT 2010 U1 - Dell Touchpad driver???

I keep my Windows 7 drivers in one pool for all Dell systems. The assumption is that the system would be smart enough to figure out which drivers it needs and which drives it doesn't need.

Just got a bunch of Optiplex 790s in. Everything installs fine *except* that somehow a Dell Touchpad driver is installed during installation. It shows up in control panel after the installation of Windows 7 is complete. Using the 64-bit edition. Any ideas as to why this would happen? I only have Dell drivers for Dell systems on my MDT server. XP and 7 drivers are separated via profiles. I have driver caches of Latitudes and Optiplexes. I'm sure what must be happening is that, for some odd reason, it's installing the Latitude touchpad driver. My real question is why and how is this possible? Obviously there is no touchpad in my Optiplex 790.

DELL-Warren B

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July 29th, 2011 13:00

Is the driver associated with hardware in Device Manager? I'd like to know if there is a PNPID that is on the system that is causing it to pick it up. If not PNP, then it would have to be something else installing it.

RobertBMills

13 Posts

July 29th, 2011 14:00

"Is the driver associated with hardware in Device Manager? I'd like to know if there is a PNPID that is on the system that is causing it to pick it up. If not PNP, then it would have to be something else installing it."
It doesn't seem to be installing a touchpad itself. Only an HID-compliant mouse is in the pointing devices after the entire affair is done. It's still pretty puzzling, though. The only other thing from Dell being installed is Dell Client System Update, and that never does anything besides a silent install and never actually gets ran afterwards. The touchpad software in question requires .NET Framework 4.0 for some odd reason. Perhaps that can help you ferret out which driver is being installed. NOTE - I do have the latest Latitude E6x20 drivers in my driver store.

DELL-Warren B

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July 29th, 2011 14:00

The HID-compliant mouse is pretty general and if the Latitude driver in your store is the "latest" version, it is quite possible that it is being selected for installation on the Optiplex along with the control panel stuff.

RobertBMills

13 Posts

July 29th, 2011 16:00

So basically I need to separate my Latitude and Optiplex driver pools. Ok, will do.

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