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Can anyone explain the following symptoms
Hello to all,
This situation has been discussed in other threads that were started on a different subject. So I though I would ask it here on it's on, with the limited experience and knowledge to answer myself.
The situation is a follows:
When first installing windows 7 I got it running and for my preference I put Zonealarm Free Firewall. On reviewing devices and printers it showed a yellow triangle on the, then only, hardrive (SATA WD Caviar) I had and on the USB device. I checked the driver details on both devices and found that the options to update driver, rollback driver and uninstall driver were grayed out and unavailbale for use. Only view Installed Driver was functioning.
I learned that Zonealarm blocks some port to the web that W7 requires. I uninstalled Zonealarm and the above devices immediately lost their error yellow triangle and worked properly.
Why is this and what exactly is causing it? It is apparently part of the OS and my last computer ran XP Pro so I never encountered this type of problem before. Why and what are blocking the other options.
Can any learned person explain in moderate or simple detail what is occurring or point me to a Tutorial.
Thanks
glennc