Re: Updating Drivers an easy way

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Hi

Please don't depend on SiSoft Sandra. Go to the manufacturer's web site for
all your hardware drivers - don't use Windows Update either.

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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"Derrick Fawsitt" <46@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Is there any software that checks out all the drivers and updates them, or
> at least find them to update. I have used SiSoft Sandra which is telling
> me there is so many of my drivers needing updating and indeed, I have been
> getting quite a few blue screens of death and crashing out, sometimes in
> the middle of writing an email.
> Surely there must be something that finds each programmes software and can
> search for the relevant update and install it. If there is no such
> software then its time someone invented it.
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> Derrick Fawsitt


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