I like trying out new stuff. That’s one of the reasons I upgraded my testing machine to Windows 7. Unfortunately the driver that is included with Windows 7 for the Intel 965 Mobile is far from perfect. Nasty side effects are: flickering taskbar, black boxes on random places of the screen, minimize / maximize / close buttons hidden, taskbar disappearing… as you can see there are more than enough issues to look for a workaround. I tried updating to the latest and greatest version but this did not solve the issues I was facing. But the following did:
- Download the Vista 64 Bit driver for the Intel 965 (in my case Lenovo laptop)
- Unzip the software
- Right click properties on the “setup.exe”
- Click on the Compatibility tab and select mode to “Windows Vista Service Pack 2” and select “run this program as an administrator” at “privilege level”
- Click “Ok”
- Run the setup and reboot
So far I haven’t experienced the issues anymore…