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And of course consider how important any update could be to you - you likely don't upgrade apps you never use, & in a similar vein, you probably don't want to bother with driver updates for stuff that suits you as-is, e.g. That's not to say they won't make other, sometimes more serious mistakes in a driver revision - take the time to backup 1st & perhaps Google beforehand &/or check the relevant forums to find out what others have experienced. And if they're fixing mistakes, it's generally something that enough customers have noticed & complained about to make it worth the effort. Since it costs money to develop driver software, if/when new versions are released, there has to be a reason - they're fixing mistakes, &/or they're adding compatibility for new products/models/versions. Driver development is an area where costs are often cut to the bone, & of course in that environment mistakes in coding are made.
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The companies that made the chips & such that go into your devices are under a lot of pressure, since there's a lot of competition plus low profit margins.
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Though we haven't yet reached the stage that occurred when laments were commonplace about "optimized" computers being bricked by absurdly aggressive "registry cleaning", the way this current vogue for driver update software is going, we might soon be. If it isn't, then check with the component vendor concerned, be it for your printer, your graphics card, whatever - after all, it's easy enough to identify those components, a host of freeware"what's-in-my-computer?" programs have long existed and can be found on any Internet search. If your computer is working fine, don't mess with it. To echo Glen's point: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. If it isn't, then check with the component vendor concerned, be it for your printer, your graphics card, whatever - after all, it's easy enough to identify those components, a host of freeware "what's-in-my-computer?" programs have long existed and can be found on any Internet search.
In truth, "driver updating" has become the new "registry optimizer" cash cow for several software publishers, because now that it's finally sunk into the collective mind of computer users worldwide that optimizing your registry is pretty much pointless on modern OS systems, then heigh-ho, time to come up with some other problem for which an expensive cure is now necessary: the updating of allegedly obsolete drivers. Microsoft already works with hardware / software providers to facilitate driver updating:īut as Glen writes at post #5, that still doesn't mean Microsoft should be trusted to manage the task properly. Worse: iObit has no demonstrable provenance in the field of driver updating, a field of critical importance to a user because if iObit ever gets its updating analysis wrong, the consequences to the user's computer may well be serious. Nothing about this developer's behaviour inspires, and certainly not its ploy of seeking to milk consumers year on year for software which is more rented than owned. I now realise that actually, $75 is what it expects you to pay for an annual license.
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On first reading this, I thought iObit was seeking to charge an astonishing $75 for a mere 6 month license to use - not own - this software. Now my system runs perfect thanks IObits DriverBooster.
I remember that I ran "Autoruns" to get rid of some autochecks/ components of DriverBooster that always appeared at new booting (I use hibernate for weeks). Updates which only refer to later OS like mine are useless for me (but claimed as "totally outdated"). And yes, I always go to the manufactors website and check the changes.
Some time ago I always had problems with Blue screen, hangs up und unsmooth scrolling in Firefox, when I watched TV on my computer, but driver updates did not solve it untill I noticed that my GPU was running too hot - it is not always the drivers!įor a Newbee like me the information of driver boosters were nevertheless usefull because I even did not understand/ knew the components nor the manufactors of the components. Nevertheless I tried to run DriverBooster.exe and found it running well.
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Last time I installed Driver Booster with Time freeze on and lost registration when I turned it off, but the main components left on my D: Partition.