I get the feeling that a lot of people opt out of WCEIP when they first setup their computer (oops-including me) so I would imagine that Microsoft doesn't have the volume of data that it would like.Īnyway, if you re-install your Windows 7, you can use Windows update to get the *optional* update that you need in order to see what are the current problems.

Microsoft also released updates (through Windows update) that allow those that aren't in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Progam to activate it so that Microsoft can gather data on the drivers and hardware and work with OEMs such as Acer to try to make the transistion go as smoothly as possible. Most people will see a little Windows icon down in the lower right part of the screen if you installed the update.Īpparently there will be multiple driver and hardware checks performed by this update. Apparently the update automatically schedules 4 tasks (in the task scheduler) that will run in the coming weeks. does a hardware and driver check on your computer.

This Windows update that I'm referring to. It's an optional update for Windows 7 (I think).

Recently Microsoft released a Windows update for Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. All topics open for discussion.Īll comments welcome. I want to see these awesome chunks of hardware continue as a useful addition to my collection of communications devices and help others do the same. Woo! So I'm bragging, not to win any prizes, but to let you know I am serious. I enjoy reading about computer security issues for home users and I did a stint of a couple of years in 2003 to 2006 as a help desk analyst having graduated from a community college with a very decent mark and an award. My experience includes a decent computer background going back to August 1963.which makes me older than a lot of dirt. I still have my original Apple IIe, disk drives and floppies, memory cards, etc which may help to explain my focus on the past. Can anyone point me to a location, URL, etc where I might find hacks, updates, and notes that I could use to build my experitise on this machine. I would like to check my hardware and drivers currently on this laptop since February 2012, but I cannot ask questions of the Acer staff because my laptop is now 'Ancient!' and the staff are busy. This brings me to why I am here now in the Acer community. Win10 worked perfectly (I started in May/15 so most of the bugs had been worked out) and I am really amazed at how smoothly the new Windows functionality works on the Acer's hardware. The new operating system is installed over top of Windows 7 Home Premium. My current experience now includes running Windows 10 Preview on my Acer Aspire Laptop 5250. 06Jun2015 - Hi to All - I am new to the Acer Community and am looking forward to asking a question or two and even answering some too.

How to check hardware drivers