{"id":2414,"date":"2017-03-07T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2022-11-04T11:47:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T10:47:16","slug":"windows-drivers-why-they-all-dated-june-21-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/03\/07\/windows-drivers-why-they-all-dated-june-21-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Drivers, why they all dated June 21, 2006?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/winb.jpg\" width=\"58\" align=\"left\" height=\"58\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/04\/warum-tragen-microsofts-treiber-das-datum-21-06-2006\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]Have you noticed, that all Microsoft build-in Windows drivers have the same date value June 21, 2006? Its independently of the Windows version \u2013 I have seen this driver date in Windows 7 and in Windows 10 as well. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft's software expert Raymond Chen and software engineer zac_l has explained why within <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20170208-00\/?p=95395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this MSDN blog post<\/a> and at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/windows\/comments\/5hediy\/is_windows_10_still_a_polished_vista_kernel\/dazjyiw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reddit.com<\/a>. June 21, 2006 is the release date of Windows Vista (RTM). Microsoft will sign all basic drivers with this time stamp. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When the system looks for a driver to use for a particular piece of hardware, it ranks them according to various criteria.\n<li>If a driver provides a match to the hardware ID, then it becomes a top candidate.\n<li>If more than one driver provides a match, then the one with the most recent timestamp is chosen..\n<li>If there is again a multiple match, the driver with the highest file version number is chosen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So backdating drivers avoiding the problem, that third party drivers will be overwritten during Windows update with Microsoft basic drivers. Further details may be read within the links posted above. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220721222651\/https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/microsoft-employees-explain-why-all-windows-drivers-are-dated-june-21-2006\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Have you noticed, that all Microsoft build-in Windows drivers have the same date value June 21, 2006? Its independently of the Windows version \u2013 I have seen this driver date in Windows 7 and in Windows 10 as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[536,194],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-driver","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}