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<blockquote data-quote="Mineria" data-source="post: 500335" data-attributes="member: 51006">Windows Update is probably the worst place to get driver updates from, first of all: they are often outdated so they don&#039;t contain important fixes, second of all: WU even manages to install the wrong drivers.When Windows 10 hit RTM a lot of NVidia users had problems with WU updating an outdated driver that even managed to mess up, and I currently get a SoundBlaster Recon3D driver forced on my ZxR every time MS updates it.For my sake they should either remove the driver search update feature completely.Just that Microsoft&#039;s official ridiculous response to the issues is called &quot;wushowhide.diagcab&quot; tells a lot, doesn&#039;t it?As for manually updating drivers, it requires some attention, as example one shouldn&#039;t use the newest driver for all Intel devices on a computer, some firmware got their own driver branch to stick too, and even then sometimes the firmware should be updated before using the according driver for it, besides that some of the software that is offered for hardware isn&#039;t even needed by the average end user, Intel RST and the full Management Engine package just to name some.So I would never suggest anyone to use a system wide driver update utility since there are too many different factors to address from system to system, I doubt that a 3rth party developer is able to pay attention to all when even Microsoft can&#039;t after being in the business for so many years.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mineria, post: 500335, member: 51006"] Windows Update is probably the worst place to get driver updates from, first of all: they are often outdated so they don't contain important fixes, second of all: WU even manages to install the wrong drivers. When Windows 10 hit RTM a lot of NVidia users had problems with WU updating an outdated driver that even managed to mess up, and I currently get a SoundBlaster Recon3D driver forced on my ZxR every time MS updates it. For my sake they should either remove the driver search update feature completely. Just that Microsoft's official ridiculous response to the issues is called "wushowhide.diagcab" tells a lot, doesn't it? As for manually updating drivers, it requires some attention, as example one shouldn't use the newest driver for all Intel devices on a computer, some firmware got their own driver branch to stick too, and even then sometimes the firmware should be updated before using the according driver for it, besides that some of the software that is offered for hardware isn't even needed by the average end user, Intel RST and the full Management Engine package just to name some. So I would never suggest anyone to use a system wide driver update utility since there are too many different factors to address from system to system, I doubt that a 3rth party developer is able to pay attention to all when even Microsoft can't after being in the business for so many years. [/QUOTE]

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