Comments on: How to update Windows drivers efficently http://www.webtlk.com/2009/10/14/how-to-update-windows-drivers-efficently/ Concise and Accurate News Every Day Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tblount http://www.webtlk.com/2009/10/14/how-to-update-windows-drivers-efficently/comment-page-1/#comment-3965 tblount Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:07:06 +0000 http://www.webtlk.com/?p=6535#comment-3965 There is still work to be done. There are several of these programs but they all depend on the vendor's install software. However in a rush to make the Windows 7 driver updates available I have seen these installations leave the new drivers in the repository folder... rather than copying them over to the \system32\drivers folder where they will actually be used. One way I have found these incomplete installs is because the old drivers don't work correctly and they leave an error log in the Administrator''s log... under Event Viewer. When it says that something.sys caused an error at bootup, I search the entire windows folder for something.sys and find two versions... one older and they have different file sizes. Another way to find uninstalled drivers that are just left laying around is to go to the device manager and .. for example click on the Sound Card driver and click Update.... tell it to look in \windows It may come back saying it found and installed a newer driver. Usually there are only a few devices that really need the latest drivers... ie. sound, video, network... or high end gaming devices. There is still work to be done. There are several of these programs but they all depend on the vendor’s install software. However in a rush to make the Windows 7 driver updates available I have seen these installations leave the new drivers in the repository folder… rather than copying them over to the \system32\drivers folder where they will actually be used.

One way I have found these incomplete installs is because the old drivers don’t work correctly and they leave an error log in the Administrator”s log… under Event Viewer. When it says that something.sys caused an error at bootup, I search the entire windows folder for something.sys and find two versions… one older and they have different file sizes.

Another way to find uninstalled drivers that are just left laying around is to go to the device manager and .. for example click on the Sound Card driver and click Update…. tell it to look in \windows It may come back saying it found and installed a newer driver. Usually there are only a few devices that really need the latest drivers… ie. sound, video, network… or high end gaming devices.

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