So after getting a working version of Windows, installing two new and mean-looking memory modules, wondering what the actual fuck Nvidia have done with the Geforce Control Panel*, making the sound card work, reinstalling a metric fuckton of programmes and applying the equally hefty list of stupid updates and persuading Microsith that yes, I really
do want to install get_iPlayer and so on and, moreover, forth, the only update in the queueueue is the Intel System one. For which the “Download” button
still doesn’t work, which was roughly where we came in last Friday.
With great trepidation Mr Larrington installs some Intel “check ur drivers” thing, which asks for a restart, which was where the whole thing terminally b0rked itself last time. And Lo! The box restarted, went off to Intel's webby
SCIENCE, checked Stuffs and pronounced everything bang up to fucking date
Does this make the pending download go away?
No. No, it does not. Sadly the plague will probably prevent me from launching an arson attack on the Beast of Redmond even if I do manage to get to USAnia this year. Bah!
* Answer: they've moved it to the poxy App Store where it doesn’t work unless you’ve installed the DCH version of the driver which Nvidia don’t actually bother to tell you about, the witless dugongs.