RAID drivers but disks are NOT RAID - do I need them?  


  1. flemur13013
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    RAID drivers but disks are NOT RAID - do I need them?


    Hi -

    "Autoruns" tells me that several drivers labelled "RAID" are getting loaded on boot/login (marked yellow in the image), but my disks are NOT RAID, just regular SATA and NTFS. Similar question for the multiple USB drivers...? (Win7, 32 bit)

    Do I need them, or can I remove them from the startups?

    TIA!
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  3. flemur13013
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    bump!
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  4. townsbg
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    Are they consuming unnecessary resources? I'm not sure if doing so would cause any problems but if you system is working fine then why risk causing blue screens?
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  6. Layback Bear
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    Windows 7 is what they call driver complete. I comes with many that you might not need at this time. I keep all of mine. If it isn't broke don't muck with it. I do remove old drivers left overs from updating things like video cards.
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  7. derekimo
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    I have those too, don't worry about them.
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