Windows 10: Interlok driver and Windows10 version 2004 causes a serious conflicts.

Windows 10 Home

version 2004



Hi.

I'd like to share my experience on this nightmare...


I have tried tens of time to get my new PC working, as it had repeatedly forced to crash after reboot.

Finally I found out that PACE Anti-Piracy's "Interlok driver setup x64" was the cause of this crash. I've even tried installing this program only and reboot, and didn't work, so I'm sure.



This 'Interlok driver' is what they call "the legacy driver" installed by 'older installer' in their newest driver release.

The reason they still includes this old version of installer is because some of the old but not outdated music programs need it to get them working.

Even some of the programs automatically installs the interlok legacy driver when installing themselves.



I have tried so many things to solve this, and now my conclusion is either;


1. Be careful not to install the legacy driver. Check the list of newly installed programs and remove if the legacy driver is found.


or


2. Don't get windows10 version 2004. Downgrade to version 19XX somehow like installing the older OS from older PC, etc.




I need to tell this. All musicians, be very careful with windows10 version 2004. Otherwise, you may need to lose a lot of data and initialize your PC.



I hope this problem will be solved very soon.


Thank you.

:)

 

Windows10: Version 2004

Windows10 Version-2004 is available in my pc.

1.Should I update it now or later? If later, exactly when I should update it?

2.How much time it would take? [Net speed 5mbps]

3.What's your windows10 version who is answering my question?

 

Two conflicting printer drivers: conflicting versions of hpmacronames.gpd

I have two conflicting HP Printers (OfficeJet Pro 6830 and OfficeJet 7110): if I install the driver for the second printer, it corrupts the installation of the first one: the documents don't arrive at the print queue anymore, and even if in the Control Panel-> devices and printers, the printer appears, if I click on 'Properties', I get a system message telling me: "This printer is not currently installed...".
If I uninstall all HP software, and delete all reference to the printers from registry and from Device Manager, upon reinstall the HP installer still fails to correctly register the printer. If I proceed with the HP troubleshooter "HP Installation Failure - Unknown Device.hta", it downloads another tool, which locates the error in the file "HPMACRONAMES.GPD", and corrects it.

After this step, I am able to reinstall and correctly register my Officejet Pro 6830, and get it to work. However, if I then proceed to reinstall the OfiiceJet 7110, the same issue reappears!

Edit 09.06.2018:

After a lot of trial-and-error, I have now boiled down the problem to that one conflicting driver file: HPMACRONAMES.gpd

• the OfficeJet 6830 driver uses a version (a) of HPMACRONAMES.gpd which dates from 16 July 2014, 03:52:00 and is 16'491 bytes big.
  
• the OfficeJet 7110 driver uses a version (b) from 9 october 2014, 05:22:38 which is 11'251 bytes.
  

Both drivers install such file into directory C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\x64\3 .

If version (a) is installed, the OJ6830 works, but the OJ7110 doesn't receive any job into its print queue. It's impossible to send even a test page from the settings dialogue: if I do so, the system responds with a popup "You do not have permission to modify the settings for this printer. If you need to change the settings, contact your system administrator." (note that I am logged in as system administrator).

If on the other hand version (b) is installed, the OJ7110 works, but the OJ6830 can't be used.

Question:
does anybody see a workaround to this?
Is there some probability to modify the printer installations in a way to use both versions of the macronames.gpd (located in different directories), so that I can print from both printers from the same system?

Actually, I can manually copy the correct version of the driver into the directory before printing on each one of the printers, but for practical reasons, I need to have a 'push-the-button-and-print' solution.

 

Update to Windows 10 version 2004

Hi Mohammad

I do not see a conflict with your hardware, and seeing as you have version 1909 installed, your system should take version 2004, however, Microsoft do not release a list of compatible hardware, only known conflicts.

If you choose to install version 2004, that will either succeed or it will not and your PC will roll back to 1909 . . .