How To: Deal With Windows Drivers

[Guest]

Drivers: they're the scourge that keeps your accessories and peripherals from playing nice with your PC. Here's how to set them so you can forget about them.

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[nodeffect]

Not all latest drivers are good, some might be unstable than the previous one. Anyway, good article about windows drivers.

 

[Guest]

"dev" doesn't always work. On mine system it launches Adobe Device Manager.

 

[mayankleoboy1]

hoping that ATI reads this.

 

[Guest]

For atheros drivers check the unofficial driver site at http/www.atheros.cz/
There are many atheros drivers whih are more current.

 

[aBg_rOnGak]

Why must the writer list shareware only? There are free alternatives worth mentioning out there...

 

[smokinjoe]

As a Dell shop at work we just have to check with Dell for drivers. In some cases we can get drivers from a newer version of the same product to work. At home I have moved laptop and desktop to Mac OS X and the server is a NAS or Linux solution.

With a Mac the worst thing you can do is buy dodgy hardware and load the vendors driver, now you have similar problems as a Windows machine with dodgy drivers. :-(

 

[hangfirew8]

Dell often has good driver support for their systems, sometimes they are the only source of an updated driver for a certain component. However if they never sold a system with a newer O/S (such as Vista or 7), it is very unlikely they'll list any drivers for that O/S. And of course for video drivers, they typically list one ancient one. So even with Dell you sometimes still have to hunt.

 

[hellwig]

Dell isn't always so great with updates to their drivers. I tried installing a driver for the wireless network card on my Latitude D600 (yes, it's ancient). They released about a million different configurations of the latitude, and probably a dozen different wireless cards were included. Luckily for me, I worked around the issue by discovering the wireless didn't work because someone had pulled the card, but man, was it ever a pain trying to figure out what I needed to download if I did have a wireless card.

 

[dioxholster]

Why do people like to keep updating their driver? unless its a graphic card with new games every year then no need to keep messing stuff up. If it aint broken dont fix it.

 

[shadowmaster625]

I ran the intel driver update utility, and IE8 popped up a message asking if I wanted to allow system requirements lab from "Husdawg llc" to install. I figured it was the Intel utility, but since a google search yielded almost nothing on Husdawg, I just said screw it. Screw Intel anyway. A company like intel should not be using shady names like that.

 

[Khimera2000]

[citation][nom]mayankleoboy1[/nom]hoping that ATI reads this.[/citation]

Dont you mean that your hoping Nvidia reads this? it takes me about 10 seconds to update me vid card. check it out its on steam.

 

[chaos133]

I don't think updating drivers at every new release is really necessary unless if your getting problems with the device, because theres a good chance they could ah heck things up.

 

[annymmo]

[citation][nom]dioxholster[/nom]Why do people like to keep updating their driver? unless its a graphic card with new games every year then no need to keep messing stuff up. If it aint broken dont fix it.[/citation]
If newer technologies ask more don't fix it after it broke.
Seriously application developers first want to see a user base before supporting something.