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Wohlstand
windows driver disappears after reboot
Hi! There is an issue on windows 10. I've installed the windows adlmidi driver and it dissappears each time I reboot the pc. I have no idea what happens and why.
That's a known problem of Windows 10 since some version (I don't remind which, @nukeykt knows): it started to automatically remove every "improperly" installed driver on reboot. I hadn't figured yet on how to make it installed "properly" as Windows 10+ wants.
Oh I see. Windows 10 updates are getting dangerous. As an example, I've got a soundcard with ASIO drivers that began causing system crash after some of major win10 updates. I also do not remind exact version of it. So I have to avoid using ASIO or else I get BSOD. Since I've got a very good soundcard I do not have plans buying new one just because Microsoft does such things. First they removed midi mapper, so this is impossible to use classic MIDI sequencers, while they keep system garbage and applications they didn't update since win98 or so. And when they ruined file search (usual file search box in explorer doen't work anymore) I start to believe MS is going to get even worse. It takes hours to search for a file on 4GB/s NVMe disk, while 3d party search apps do it within a millisecond. Bravo, Microsoft. So I do not update Windows anymore unless I have a very good purpose. Unfortunately they tend to force you updating.
Just some facts:
- I do use Linux Mint since 2014 by myself
- In my family, all hardware computers that has Windows, has Windows 8.1 with OpenShell installed. Nobody wants Windows 10 because of built-in spyware and lots of other problems related to compatibility and general convenience.
- I do use Windows 10 and Windows 11 at VM only for debug purposes only.
I've been using windows 8.1 for years and didn't have any plans moving to w10. just like I've been using win7, xp and 98se till it start to rot. New doesn't equal better. Problem is that I have to use quite a lot of specific professional software that doesn't work with win8.1 and not cross-platform as well. With pain and curses I had to move to win10. And keep cursing. When I got an abusing popup message 'hey cmon get windows 11!', I just said f/k you Microsoft and blocked all update related services.
You probably could check how good that professional software would work on favourite Linux distro through the Wine. If luck comes, and it works successfully with no faults, then you could just use Linux rather than Windows.
I should give it a try. I have not much experience with Linux. Regarding the bug with the driver I found out that coolsoft virtual midisynth installs and works normally on Windows 10. It doesn't disappear after reboot. I do not know if this helps, but maybe some expert examination of it may help you. I do not know much of programming, maybe you know how to find out how it's done. Here is the link to it. https://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth
In case of having problems, the 32-bit counterpart might work better. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1041258#p1041258
In case of having problems, the 32-bit counterpart might work better. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1041258#p1041258
Could you be more specific which distribution version is mentioned (some link to it)?
Could you be more specific which distribution version is mentioned (some link to it)?
Exact behaviors may depend on the build of Windows in use and/or other factors. But I've referred to a 32-bit build of the libADLMIDI WinMM driver.