Tuesday, April 20, 2010

My processor driver is dated 2004.. is there something wrong??

Sitting alone at coimbatore airport is not fun...  Next best option.. mess around with the system!!

Took a boot time capture of my system using procmon.  Even though it didn't make much sense to me initially the following registry key was among those queried very early.. HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{50127DC3-0F36-415E-A6CC-4CB3BE910B65}

It turned out to be related to the processor.. with two subkeys named "1" and "2" which I assume is related to to my two cores of the processor..

All is well till this time.. But I am a bit surprised by the driver date of my processor.. Here is the graphic for you..


Questions: Why is the driver dated 2004.. was the original driver so stable that it did not need an update ? Or am I missing an update ???

PS: The processor device driver processr.sys also is dated "August 2004"