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<blockquote data-quote="roger_m" data-source="post: 983016" data-attributes="member: 31436">Windows usually does a much better job than Snappy Driver Installer and other third party driver updates at finding the right drivers.&nbsp; There are very occasional exceptions to this, when Windows will install a driver that doesn&#039;t work properly.&nbsp; But this is something that actually happens quite often with third party driver updaters.&nbsp; A good example of how well Windows manages driver updates is the following.&nbsp; It happens quite often that third party driver updates will install the wrong webcam drivers, which will result in the webcam being unusable.&nbsp; If you uninstall the bad driver from Device Manager and let Windows install a driver, usually the replacement driver will be the right one and the webcam will work again.Having said that, there are very rare cases where Windows will continually replace a working driver with a problematic one.&nbsp; In which case, stopping Windows from automatically install drivers as shown in the video will solve the problem.&nbsp; But that is the only situation where I would recommend doing this.As mentioned in my previous post, both Driver Easy and PC HelpSoft Driver Updater do a very good job of finding the correct drivers, although in rare cases they could cause issues.&nbsp; Other driver updaters will sometimes install drivers that aren&#039;t compatible&nbsp; and as a result don&#039;t work, or install &quot;compatible&quot; drivers.&nbsp; These compatible drivers often work fine, but are not the correct driver for the device.&nbsp; For example, DriverHub wants to replace my Intel SMBus driver with a Synaptics one and some want to install an Elan one.&nbsp; My laptop has an Intel SMBus, so driver updaters should only be finding newer Intel drivers to replace to current one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roger_m, post: 983016, member: 31436"] Windows usually does a much better job than Snappy Driver Installer and other third party driver updates at finding the right drivers. There are very occasional exceptions to this, when Windows will install a driver that doesn't work properly. But this is something that actually happens quite often with third party driver updaters. A good example of how well Windows manages driver updates is the following. It happens quite often that third party driver updates will install the wrong webcam drivers, which will result in the webcam being unusable. If you uninstall the bad driver from Device Manager and let Windows install a driver, usually the replacement driver will be the right one and the webcam will work again. Having said that, there are very rare cases where Windows will continually replace a working driver with a problematic one. In which case, stopping Windows from automatically install drivers as shown in the video will solve the problem. But that is the only situation where I would recommend doing this. As mentioned in my previous post, both Driver Easy and PC HelpSoft Driver Updater do a very good job of finding the correct drivers, although in rare cases they could cause issues. Other driver updaters will sometimes install drivers that aren't compatible and as a result don't work, or install "compatible" drivers. These compatible drivers often work fine, but are not the correct driver for the device. For example, DriverHub wants to replace my Intel SMBus driver with a Synaptics one and some want to install an Elan one. My laptop has an Intel SMBus, so driver updaters should only be finding newer Intel drivers to replace to current one. [/QUOTE]

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