Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

As it was a Monday yesterday, I decided to have a quiet evening and just fiddle with the workstation. I have Titch to keep me company and we settled down to a pleasant couple of hours doing some non critical fiddling on the workstation. A good time was had by all until I decided to install a new driver for some robotics work. Wouldn't install, couldn't install, refused point blank to install. But it didn't tell me why. I eventually went in through the back door and installed it with full reporting. It refused to install. This time, however, it told my why. Up until my "Brute force and ignorance" install, I had not one error message other than, "I don't think that worked, want to try again?" or words to that effect. This time it told me the truth, "You are trying to install an unsigned driver on a 64 bit OS". Thanks a bunch Microsoft, if you had told me up front, I would have been in bed ninety minutes earlier and not felt like death warmed up now.

Somewhat later;
I have managed to find a fix for my unsigned driver problem and all should now be well with my install this evening.