Many of the just-installed patches were issued well after Service Pack 1 was released and I wondered if installing the eight month old Service Pack might restore some known vulnerabilities.īut, as is often the case with Microsoft, the Service Pack seems to have installed software with known vulnerabilities. Problem solved.īut this brings up an interesting issue - how the Service Pack installer deals with new files. The Intel utility did, however, offer a link to Acers website where I was able to download a zip file with the new video driver.ĭespite the file name mis-match, with the updated video driver, Windows Update was now offering to install Service Pack 1. The Intel utility reported that the installed video driver was old, but it didn't have an update because Acer had modified the driver.
Sadly, it returned no updates to any Acer software, something keep in mind if you're considering buying an Acer computer.įortunately, Intel has their own software updater application, which I wrote about back in September 2009. Microsoft said the incompatibility problem was with Igdkmd64.sys but the main video driver on the computer was identified as igdumb64.dll.įiguring that it couldn't hurt to update the video driver, I tried the pre-installed Acer Updater application.
The laptop had a video driver whose version number was in the suspect range, but the name of the driver was different. The computer was an Acer 3820T laptop with Intel integrated graphics running a 64 bit edition of Windows 7.īut the situation was not a perfect match. A trip to search engine land turned up Microsoft's KB2498452 ( You do not have the option of downloading Windows 7 SP1 when you use Windows Update to check for updates), where the fourth suggestion, "Check whether you have Intel integrated graphics driver Igdkmd32.sys or Igdkmd64.sys", seemed on target.
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