Installers in general should not just install with no way to cancel or back-out. Driver installers should not require that you connect the device to continue. Drivers should be a modular thing that you simply put into the right place. This is the kind of thing I hate about Windows. It's likely my computer has restarted since then to install updates or something. My memory is crap, so I don't remember if I ever did that. I thought I might get a chance to bring the adapter to my apartment within the next few days and connect it to get past the prompt, then uninstall the Netgear package. There was also nothing you could click to cancel/close the prompt (though you could probably kill something in the Task Manager, I didn't want to interrupt the installer and leave anything half-installed). Then, a prompt appeared nagging me to connect the Netgear adapter to a USB port, which I did not have with me and had no intention to ever connect to my computer. To my dismay, there was no EULA or anything to let me cancel or back out of it. Of course, the filename was something vague like "setup.exe" (stupid) and I didn't want to put the wrong setup file on the thumb drive, so I double-clicked it to see if a Netgear installer appeared. Over 1 month ago, I downloaded a Windows 7 driver package for a Netgear USB wireless-N adapter I was using to work on another computer at another location (coming directly from Netgear). I just remembered something and I'm pretty sure it's related to this issue.
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