Driver updater anyone?
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None of them.
Avoid at absolutely all costs.
Do not fix what is not broke, letting an application update every driver it finds an update for is a ridiculous idea.
The only things you should be updating frequently on a PC, driver wise, is GPU (Where performance benefits are apparent) or when large feature sets are unlocked/bettered with a BIOS update and drivers are required to use them (Intel RAID and RST updates for example).
Avoid at absolutely all costs.
Do not fix what is not broke, letting an application update every driver it finds an update for is a ridiculous idea.
The only things you should be updating frequently on a PC, driver wise, is GPU (Where performance benefits are apparent) or when large feature sets are unlocked/bettered with a BIOS update and drivers are required to use them (Intel RAID and RST updates for example).
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As above. List your drivers down in notepad and do it yourself.
Normally, I'd 100% agree with Sin Chase and PapaLazaru in this situation.
But I've had about 2 or 3 computers that I simply could not find a working driver for. The audio driver on the Dell site just made them blue screen.
First I tried every driver that the manufacturer made, either they didn't work, or had instant blue screens.
Then I downloaded the Driverspacks drivers, extract them, mounted them to cd, and again, blue screen.
The third and final solution was using a program called SlimDrivers, the one that it downloaded for the soundcard worked perfectly.
I only use this as a last ditch attempt. And I uninstall it right away after using it!
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This is what I'd use!
http://drp.su/download.htm
100% free and they use the Driverpacks files
edit2 watch the installer, it's got crapware :/ untick the first one, next. then decline the next
But I've had about 2 or 3 computers that I simply could not find a working driver for. The audio driver on the Dell site just made them blue screen.
First I tried every driver that the manufacturer made, either they didn't work, or had instant blue screens.
Then I downloaded the Driverspacks drivers, extract them, mounted them to cd, and again, blue screen.
The third and final solution was using a program called SlimDrivers, the one that it downloaded for the soundcard worked perfectly.
I only use this as a last ditch attempt. And I uninstall it right away after using it!
edit
This is what I'd use!
http://drp.su/download.htm
100% free and they use the Driverpacks files
edit2 watch the installer, it's got crapware :/ untick the first one, next. then decline the next
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Yeah, I've seen mention of SlimDrivers elsewhere too. There's a free version and a paid one.
This looks like a good and safe solution. Will try it out on the windows vista laptop and if all goes well, the windows 7 desktop!
Thanks all!
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They are only good in situations where drivers can't be obtained for older hardware. It does come in handy at times.
But NOT to update drivers where a system has them all.
But NOT to update drivers where a system has them all.
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Some older drivers are hard to find.
Typically these drivers are outdated, better to go to chipset specific sites.