Vista: Hardware profiles for gaming?

[Evenkeel]

Previously tried posting this in the OS forum and the Gaming forum, but no replies. Hoping someone here can give me some guidance.

Rather than copy-pasting it yet again, here's the link to the post.

So what do you think?

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: Evenkeel
Previously tried posting this in the OS forum and the Gaming forum, but no replies. Hoping someone here can give me some guidance.

Rather than copy-pasting it yet again, here's the link to the post.

So what do you think?

I think you're lazy, if you think "copy & paste" is so hard to do.
Copy & Paste from your multiple threads or LOCK! :laugh:

 

[Evenkeel]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: Evenkeel
Previously tried posting this in the OS forum and the Gaming forum, but no replies. Hoping someone here can give me some guidance.

Rather than copy-pasting it yet again, here's the link to the post.

So what do you think?

I think you're lazy, if you think "copy & paste" is so hard to do.
Copy & Paste from your multiple threads or LOCK! :laugh:

I was always taught proper netiquette was not to cross-post. I felt I had already done it twice, trying to get an answer, but coming up empty both times. I felt putting the full text in a third time, when a simple link would pop open the pertinent info, was faster, and would take up less room on the AT server--not that copy-paste was hard (pretty sure I didn't say that). Since you don't know me, calling me lazy seems uncalled for. You also didn't answer my question--but I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you did not click the link.

At any rate, since "Lifer" Blain feels the entire text should appear yet again, here it is. I hope someone has an actual answer:

I imagine this has been asked before. I did search before I posted this, both the MS KB, and Googled it. MS KB no help at all (big surprise), and the Google results were all 1-2 years old.

Basically, how do you create a hardware profile when you want to game, on a system that has to do double-duty as a work machine? I know that Vista has eliminated the Hardware Profile utility that XP had, so what do you do?

The best anyone came up w/is going into Vista Services, and individually disabling Services for a logon profile. This is ridiculous, and I'm wondering if, in the intervening time, anyone has come up w/anything better. Losing the ability to create individual hardware profiles like in XP is absurd.

What I found people asking, is basically exactly what I want to do: keep my main profile for day-to-day work, and create a separate hardware profile just for all the spiffy new gaming hardware (Logitech gaming keyboard and mouse, Fang gamepad, SteelSeries headset, etc...).

The Logitech stuff usually gets along pretty well w/other hardware, but I have a MS Ergo keyboard, and MS keyboard/mouse software does not play well w/others. Also, that Fang gamepad has a major driver to use to customize the pad for different games, and I'll bet you a dollar it will hose things up if I use it on my main profile.

I've been doing this long enough to know that specialized drivers like the kind used in gaming gear stands a good chance of messing up my finely-honed system </slight sarcasm>, so I'm hoping I can get some advice here. I don't want to have to spend all that time disabling Services and unplugging hardware, just so I can plug in the gaming gear--by that time I'll be too ticked off to play.

So what are people doing about this? (Besides cursing MS, I mean.)