01-27-2019 05:45 PM - last edited 3 weeks ago by ROGBot
01-27-2019 07:08 PM
01-28-2019 11:21 AM
davemon50 wrote:
For the fun of it, I went through all the devices under the Windows Device Manager and selected to update each driver individually. In at least 3 cases Windows found an update and proceeded to install it. Normally it says you are up to date whether you think so or not. I'm just wondering why it didn't automatically do this. Undef Windows Updates my copy of Windows thought it was already up to date beforehand. I call BS on that apparent lie.
01-28-2019 01:27 PM
xeromist wrote:
...Most people aren't going to update drivers through the device manager unless they are having issues so providing them a newer driver might resolve things...
01-28-2019 02:58 PM
01-28-2019 03:57 PM
01-28-2019 04:44 PM
thr23 wrote:
due to how Windows classifies and ranks its drivers, it's perfectly possible to actually downgrade your driver by using this method.
the 'best' driver is not necessarily chosen by its age or version number. critical security updates, for example, are ranked higher than new version numbers, so if you use the device manager to update a driver, it may in fact revert to an older version which is marked as a critical update in windows driver database.