Driver Updates...
Discussion
OK, I admit this is a stupid question, but...
Windows 10 Laptop, very old i5 (gen 4!!!), My free Antivirus always tells me several drivers are out of date (OK, part of me says they are looking for anything they can possibly claim is slowing the laptop down, as their shiny new subscription service will solve all my problems... right!), everything works so I haven't bothered, a few months ago fitted a cheapy SSD and installed a fresh Windows 10,and all is happy again. Amazingly I have found myself with some time and decided let's do all those drivers.
- Went to the Windows Device Manger, tell it to search for drivers, obviously it looks locally on this device and obviously it can't find any.
- The antivirus even tells me what new version to install, so went to the intel website and downloaded it.
- Back to Device Manger right click and tell it that the new shiny driver is in the downloads folder...
but it is still telling me "Windows has determined that the best driver for this device is already installed"
So what is the truth? am I doing this all wrong? should I have gone to the pub instead of starting this?
Windows 10 Laptop, very old i5 (gen 4!!!), My free Antivirus always tells me several drivers are out of date (OK, part of me says they are looking for anything they can possibly claim is slowing the laptop down, as their shiny new subscription service will solve all my problems... right!), everything works so I haven't bothered, a few months ago fitted a cheapy SSD and installed a fresh Windows 10,and all is happy again. Amazingly I have found myself with some time and decided let's do all those drivers.
- Went to the Windows Device Manger, tell it to search for drivers, obviously it looks locally on this device and obviously it can't find any.
- The antivirus even tells me what new version to install, so went to the intel website and downloaded it.
- Back to Device Manger right click and tell it that the new shiny driver is in the downloads folder...
but it is still telling me "Windows has determined that the best driver for this device is already installed"
So what is the truth? am I doing this all wrong? should I have gone to the pub instead of starting this?
For a machine that age, the best drivers will be in the Windows Update repository (in 99% of cases - some things like older graphics cards can be an exception). It may be that what your AV suggests is an update does not in fact support the device ID.
You will not notice a performance increase - there may be security issues or compatibility issues (Windows 10 can stop working with some drivers after an update as happened to my ancient Nvidia Quadro cards).
I’d ignore the AV.
You will not notice a performance increase - there may be security issues or compatibility issues (Windows 10 can stop working with some drivers after an update as happened to my ancient Nvidia Quadro cards).
I’d ignore the AV.
bangerhoarder said:
For a machine that age, the best drivers will be in the Windows Update repository (in 99% of cases - some things like older graphics cards can be an exception). It may be that what your AV suggests is an update does not in fact support the device ID.
You will not notice a performance increase - there may be security issues or compatibility issues (Windows 10 can stop working with some drivers after an update as happened to my ancient Nvidia Quadro cards).
I’d ignore the AV.
Cheers, here is a virtual pint: You will not notice a performance increase - there may be security issues or compatibility issues (Windows 10 can stop working with some drivers after an update as happened to my ancient Nvidia Quadro cards).
I’d ignore the AV.
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