rob99999_2 wrote:
My card is a after market install so I rely on Intel to release the drivers for the card. And since Intel is the maker of the Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260. This makes them the ultimate authority of the drivers for this card.
Rob, you can install those drivers on top of what you're already using. The end user package simply includes installers for ProSet and the driver files. You don't get anything different regarding the actual driver files which provide the functionality of the card.
For my use, I only use the Admin sets, because I don't use ProSet and don't want to run an installer. It's a simple matter of unzipping the file to a folder on the PC, clicking on Update Driver in Device Manager, and then browsing to the saved folder where the drivers are. You really don't need anything else to make the card work.
If you have ProSet installed and want to keep using it, you can do the same thing as above. The driver will update, but you'll keep everything else as it was.
Another option: those ProSet Wireless exe files are just self-extracting archives. You can open them up with winzip or 7zip and see that the same driver folder is there, packed in with all the installer and setup stuff. You can install the driver that way, too, without ever running the setup.exe.