simple or silly question?????

busenbust

treepotato1 wrote: »

Especially in Windows OSs....Can we all say "bloated"?

^^:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

treepotato1

busenbust wrote: »

^^:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

Ahhh...the Tears In Rain speech...unsurpassable, IMO. MassIVE respect.

treepotato1

busenbust wrote: »

Yes, but removing the modem drivers will neither give you more drive space nor make the machine perform faster. Not at all. IMHO

Of course it will. It will not, in itself, improve performance but it cannot but improve drive space. Why would you say otherwise? And to adopt your approach to every little thing that can be uninstalled over the years and months results in HUGE waste of disk space.

busenbust

treepotato1 wrote: »

Of course it will. It will not, in itself, improve performance but it cannot but improve drive space. Why would you say otherwise? And to adopt your approach to every little thing that can be uninstalled over the years and months results in HUGE waste of disk space.

Of course it will not; this is a modem driver we/the OP is/are talking about. Why would you say otherwise

busenbust

treepotato1 wrote: »

Ahhh...the Tears In Rain speech...unsurpassable, IMO. MassIVE respect.

Yes indeed - just awesome :cool:

busenbust

treepotato1 wrote: »

heh - you remind me of my partner who says "of course I'm right. Why wouldn't I be?" Or was it me who said that? :eek:

:beer:

I could not possibly comment - on your partner's shenanigans

:rotfl:

:beer:.

fiddiwebb

It makes little or no difference uninstalling your modem drivers.

You may need them one day if for instance you have problems with your broadband connection and your isp issues you with a dial up number to use untill the problem has been sorted out.

busenbust

fiddiwebb wrote: »

It makes little or no difference uninstalling your modem drivers.

You may need them one day if for instance you have problems with your broadband connection and your isp issues you with a dial up number to use untill the problem has been sorted out.

Absolutely agree with fiddi.

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busenbust

^Italicized? :eek:

bugeyed

Uninstalling drivers should only ever be done when they cause a problem with your installation. The files in question will only be a few kilobytes in size. Many devices actually share driver files and although it is unlikely another hardware device is using the modem drivers, it is still unadvisable to uninstall them. The best thing to do would be to go to device manager (control panel in Windows xp or type into start bar for 7) and disable the modem here. This may reduce resources used, but will have very little impact on your system.
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