Drivers for HP 5187-7583?

[XS11E]

I'd like to use the keyboard from my old HP computer with my new one
but I can't find any Win7 drivers so none of the media or internet keys function.

HP provides drivers for Vista 64 but none for Win7 64 nor have I had
any luck finding any????

I keep coming up with stuff like:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Other-Desktop-PC-questions/HP-5187-driver-needed-for-WIN7/m-p/247482
so it looks like I'm not alone...

Any help?

 

[Gordon]

I'd like to use the keyboard from my old HP computer with my new one
but I can't find any Win7 drivers so none of the media or internet keys
function.

HP provides drivers for Vista 64 but none for Win7 64 nor have I had
any luck finding any????

I keep coming up with stuff like:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Other-Desktop-PC-questions/HP-5187-driver-needed-for-WIN7/m-p/247482
so it looks like I'm not alone...

Any help?

Have you tried the Vista drivers? There's a chance they might work...

 

[XS11E]

Have you tried the Vista drivers? There's a chance they might
work...

Yes, of course I have but they don't work.

 

[DL]

Well if HP don't supply new drivers your obviously stuck

 

[Trev]

Yes, of course I have but they don't work.

Did you install as compatible mode.
A quick visual guide
http://www.trevorbowden.co.uk/Win7compatmode.html

 

[Gordon]

Yes, of course

So why didn't you SAY you'd tried them?

 

[Ken Blake]

I'd like to use the keyboard from my old HP computer with my new one
but I can't find any Win7 drivers so none of the media or internet keys function.

HP provides drivers for Vista 64 but none for Win7 64 nor have I had
any luck finding any????

Then you're probably out of luck.
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003

 

[LouB]

Then you're probably out of luck.
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003

But I was told that Win7 is heavily based on Vista

 

[MJMIII]

But I was told that Win7 is heavily based on Vista

....and you're enough of an asshole to believe everything you read on the
internet.

 

[Ken Blake]

But I was told that Win7 is heavily based on Vista

It is. In fact, it could have been called something like Vista Second
Edition (as Microsoft did with Windows 98). Under the hood Vista is
Windows 6.0 and Windows 7 is Windows 6.1, an upgrade to 6.0, not a
whole new operating system. What Microsoft decides to call something
is a marketing decision, not a technical one, and they apparently
decided that giving it a new name would be likely to sell more copies.

And in fact, Vista drivers sometimes work with Windows 7. But in this
case, he tried the Windows Vista drivers and they did *not* work.


Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003

 

[XS11E]

And in fact, Vista drivers sometimes work with Windows 7. But in
this case, he tried the Windows Vista drivers and they did *not*
work.

So.... why is that?

 

[XS11E]

Simple...because Windows 7 is not Vista, nor is it Vista SE. It is
Windows 7.

I didn't think anyone would be stupid enough to offer that as an
explanation, I didn't count on your limitless idiocy apparently...

 

[Trev]

I didn't think anyone would be stupid enough to offer that as an
explanation, I didn't count on your limitless idiocy apparently...

When you say did not work Did they install or did the install not work. If
the later right click the setup Exe select properties then the compatibility
tab and then Vista. Ok back out and Install

 

[XS11E]

When you say did not work Did they install or did the install not
work.

Installed, did not work.

 

[Ken Blake]

So.... why is that?

Because they are two different operating systems. In some cases Vista
drivers work on Windows 7, in other (probably most) cases they don't.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003

 

[XS11E]

Because they are two different operating systems. In some cases Vista
drivers work on Windows 7, in other (probably most) cases they don't.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003

That's about as sensible an answer as Frank's, I'm really disappointed
in you.....

I know they're two different OSs, the question is WHAT SPECIFIC
DIFFERENCE is preventing the Vista driver from working? I'm hoping
it'll turn out to be something as simple as 'decorating' a Win32 driver
to make it work in Win64.