Tuesday 17 April 2018

windows 7 - Automatically Find Driver Updates?


I use Windows Update and rarely, it will say there is a driver update. More often than not, I need to manually visit the website for the maker of each component and download updated drivers for each. Because this is a pain/time consuming, I don't bother until I have a problem with something (but the driver updates often improve performance, so I'd prefer to have them ASAP)


So, is there anything that will automatically scan my hardware and find the newest driver from some huge library of drivers?


EDIT: I did a quick search for such a tool, but a lot of the results seemed 'shady' like potential spyware or something.



Answer



Here's another one -- I came across it when Internet Explorer was crashing and used it to update Windows so that I could update Internet Explorer to get other updates (sorry, I tried to keep that simple):


  Windiz Update - Why use WindizUpdate?
  http://www.windizupdate.com/whyuse.php


It works in every web browser EXCEPT for Internet Explorer (you'll get an "unsupported web browser" error page if you try to use Internet Explorer on that web site, heheh), and it will install nearly all of the Windows Updates on your computer.


On the web page I referenced above, it indicates that it gets various drivers too. In the past they were unable to get third-party drivers, so I'm suspecting that they may be getting these directly from vendors instead (hopefully they are). Here's what they claim on that web page in the first paragraph:



  • "Not only will it keep you up to date with the latest updates from Microsoft, it will also keep software and drivers from other vendors updated. However, that functionality is currently missing."


I hope this web site can find the driver updates you're after.


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