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What Is A 'Driver'
A lot of people don't understand the computer term 'driver', which is understandable because it's usually not explained well. Understanding the computer term 'driver' can be easy when it's explained the right way. It could be as a result you’ve done web searches for things like: “define drivers”, or something along those lines and looked for simple answers.
As always, I'm not criticizing you -- if you didn't understand what a driver was before this, it's just because it was never explained to you in a way that actually made sense.
Let's see what I can do to fix that.
Unlike a lot of computer training out there, I have an easy way to explain it that will just make sense for you. This article will help you make sense of computer terms like driver and more.
Before I begin, just to make sure you have the basic background to follow what I'm talking about, allow me to briefly explain the difference between "hardware" and "software".
It's really pretty simple -- "hardware" refers to all of the tangible pieces of equipment, like your mouse, your computer's screen, the hard drive, etc.
"Software" is all of the pieces of the computer that you really aren't able to observe or touch directly. Software would include things like a word processor, Internet Explorer, Windows or the Mac OS, as well as all of your personal files like specific emails, pictures, music, and so on.
One way to think about it is like this: hardware is like your brain, a physical part of your body, while software is like your mind or your thoughts -- the non-physical part of yourself.
Software runs on hardware, just like your thoughts "run on" your brain.
Starting to make sense? Now let's talk more specifically about drivers.
Here's the easy way to understand what a driver is. Imagine that every piece of hardware, including your printer, your mouse, and so on, talks a different language.
So one speaks French, another one speaks Russian, a different one Cantonese, etc.
So when you plug in a new printer and turn it on, your computer says hello and the printer answers in a foreign language the computer doesn't understand.
So it needs an interpreter.
And when I say interpreter, I mean just like in the real world, just like when a foreign diplomat comes to the country but doesn't know the local language. The diplomat needs an interpreter to help them talk with the locals.
That, basically put, is what a driver is -- an interpreter that helps your computer talk to a specific piece of equipment. And (most of the time) you need a different interpreter for all of the equipment that you connect to the computer.
Get it?
Now fairly often, the driver may be "preinstalled" on your computer (in other words, the computer already has the interpreter ready and waiting in case it's needed) and other times, it needs to either be installed from a CD, or downloaded off the Internet, and then installed on the computer.
But no matter what, the computer needs that driver before it can speak to the printer or whatever other thing you may have attached to your computer.
Hope that makes sense.
How do I partition my hard driver, I know computer hardware?
but not as good as software. I have vista now but want to put windows7 on a partition of my hard drive, I have more than 100gigs of free space.
Sorry meant hard drive not hard driver.
put a new drive in as master, install win7, update and reboot. update again, shutdown. Put old drive in as slave.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/73826/stepbystep_partition_your_hard_drive.html
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