Question Whats the best FREE software for updating drivers on Windows 10 these days?

[jagermain]

Im looking to update my drivers without a software that fakes being free and actually updates your drivers that needed. Thanks to anyone who can help! Cheers!

 

[USAFRet]

Im looking to update my drivers without a software that fakes being free and actually updates your drivers that needed. Thanks to anyone who can help! Cheers!

Drivers should obtained only from the specific hardware manufacturers.

Not some 3rd party tool, paid or free.

 

[Cj-tech]

Im looking to update my drivers without a software that fakes being free and actually updates your drivers that needed. Thanks to anyone who can help! Cheers!

Download the drivers directly from the manufacturer website or download the software updater tool from the manufacturer. Dell, Lenovo, Gigabyte, HP, and other manufacturers provide tools that download them all in one place for pre-built machines.

For custom-built, it depends on the hardware. Nvidia has a driver update tool, Intel has a driver update tool, and AMD has a driver update tool. For all systems, GPU drivers can be downloaded from the GPU manufacturer directly.

Don’t use the programs that claim to download them all at once.

 

[geofelt]

Update drivers only when such an update will fix a problem you might be having.
Do so directly from the source such as Nvidia.

How do driver updater apps make their money?
It could be as innocuous as showing you ads.
Or it could be selling your info to others.
Or, they can install malware and worse.

You need none of the above.

Before updating a critical component, take a system restore checkpoint, then do the update yourself.

 

[rocky01]

Don't bother wasting time with sharewares that refuse to operate properly, until they lead you on a merry chase, usually behind paywall. Both Drive Booster Pro and Driver Genius Platinum are paid programs, but worth having IMO. Software Devs deserve being compensated since it is no easy thing to find up to date drivers without a lot of effort. Suggest each product finds WAY more than I can, even on a good day. However, do I trust just about ANY software these days? Not when all roads seemingly lead to one destination, one country. I install them, find latest drivers, then uninstall. Repeat at one's discretion. Also do haggle with them on price, since like all softwares, subscription model is advantegeous to them, not necessarilty users.

 

[USAFRet]

Both Drive Booster Pro and Driver Genius Platinum are

Not even in my worst nightmare.

 

[Anon#1234]

Download the drivers directly from the manufacturer website or download the software updater tool from the manufacturer. Dell, Lenovo, Gigabyte, HP, and other manufacturers provide tools that download them all in one place for pre-built machines.

For custom-built, it depends on the hardware. Nvidia has a driver update tool, Intel has a driver update tool, and AMD has a driver update tool. For all systems, GPU drivers can be downloaded from the GPU manufacturer directly.

Don’t use the programs that claim to download them all at once.

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[punkncat]

Assuming you are Windows, use Windows Update. It's built in and uses signed drivers. If you are on Intel you can use their Driver & Support Assistant if you have any being stubborn.

Driver updaters are typically trash as best case and malware or worse in most.

 

[rocky01]

Drivers should obtained only from the specific hardware manufacturers.

Not some 3rd party tool, paid or free.

Understood. Also understand anyone not trusting MS as well, for cause. Just offering options.

 

[Cj-tech]

Virus speedrun any%

Huh?

 

[DSzymborski]

The best free software for updating drivers on Windows is your preferred browser. Use it to navigate to the proper driver files for your exact hardware.

 

[Viking2121]

Well if its a modern PC, Best to go the manufactures website, though Windows does do a decent job but its sometimes not perfect, Video drivers I would definitely go to AMD/Nvidia's website for the latest drivers, same with chipsets.

I do have a few older PC's that have older hardware or odd hardware like a built in LSI controller, I Can not find a driver for the life of me for that, but for them systems, I use Snappy Driver Installer Origin, it usually finds everything for them older of hard to find drivers, I downloaded the entire 40gb driver package from them and setup a network share so if anytime I work on a computer with a pain in the butt driver, I can get to it threw my network if Ethernet or wifi works and it'll grab the driver from my network share.

Thats the only software I use for that kind of thing, Phils Computer Lab on youtube uses it and I decided to try it and liked it ever since, though idk how well it will it'll find the most recent drivers, I use it just to get drivers as a ton of sites out there are sketchy at best when typing the Hardware ID in google.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Another thing of note is that you don't really need to update drivers all the time. Driver updates most of the time fix either minor bugs or simply add support for a device. So unless you're having a problem with the hardware or there's a critical security flaw with the ones you have, there's really no reason to update drivers.

Even video card drivers I'd say sure look at what it does, but you don't have to update unless the release notes says it's doing something that you can actually use. Like for example, optimizations for a particular game.