{"id":69,"date":"2006-01-28T20:13:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/archives\/69"},"modified":"2006-01-28T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T18:13:10","slug":"solution-for-gethwiddriversexe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/solution-for-gethwiddriversexe\/","title":{"rendered":"Solution for GetHwIdDrivers.exe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve received many emails from people who cannot get it to run&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For anyone still having trouble running GetHwIdDrivers.exe (from the official MS Beta for Vista) from the command  prompt, and cannot even get the batch files to run, then you should use this  exe. It&#8217;s a GUI that anyone should be able to use, no problem.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Put GetDrivers.exe in the same directory as  GetHwIdDrivers.exe<\/li>\n<li>Run it<\/li>\n<li>Type a name to use for the xml file to be  generated<\/li>\n<li>Press OK<\/li>\n<li>Your Done!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/downloads\/GetDrivers.exe\" rel=\"follow\">http:\/\/neosmart.net\/downloads\/GetDrivers.exe<\/a>  (32 kb)<\/p>\n<p>Hope it helps.. You need .NET 2.0, you shouldn&#8217;t need anything  extra to run it on Vista&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve received many emails from people who cannot get it to run&#8230; For anyone still having trouble running GetHwIdDrivers.exe (from the official MS Beta for Vista) from the command prompt, and cannot even get the batch files to run, then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/solution-for-gethwiddriversexe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.4 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;ve received many emails from people who cannot get it to run... 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