Driver Update Tool?

[Tymac94]

Does anybody know of a good automatic Driver Updater. I already tried Drvier Max, did not work.

Thanks Tyler

[digip]

Does anybody know of a good automatic Driver Updater. I already tried Drvier Max, did not work.

Thanks Tyler

If it aint broke, don't fix it. ;)

Unless you have a bug in something, crashes, etc, you only need to update when there is a fix or enhancment to a device. Otherwise, always go to the manufacturer for udaptes or even windows update will fix them sometimes, like my GPU drivers always do when there is a newer one.

[h3%5kr3w]

If it aint broke, don't fix it. ;)

Cannot argue with that.

Sometimes upgrading your drivers (especially if it's for something relatively old) may slow down or degrade stability.

[DingleBerries]

It would be a lot easier to write a script to check for updates. cURL or wget along with md5check. Have it download the latest version, compare it to the old version. If they are different then install... This is pretty dangerous, you should always make sure you are installing important system software your self.

Modified version(url change)

Author: netytan

#!/usr/bin/env python 

import urllib, md5

page = urllib.urlopen('http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_180.29.html').read() 

checksum = md5.new(page).digest()

if open('md5.txt', 'r').read().strip() != checksum:
    print 'Page has been changed\n'
    open('md5.txt', 'w').write(checksum)
else:
    print 'Page has not been changed\n'

[VaKo]

Windows 7 seems to manage drives through windows updates.

[stingwray]

Windows 7 seems to manage drives through windows updates.

Does that actually work? Whenever I've played with that in XP and Vista it's just been completely useless.

[VaKo]

Its seems to, long way to go before its like linux but its getting there. I installed it on a Dell workstation and it found most things automatically and got the rest from WU.

[SomethingToChatWith]

Yeah, you should start seeing a lot more drivers updated through WU with W7. Heck, you can even update some programs now through WU... or at least update them through the typical update dialog users are used to. Makes it a lot simpler than having a user memorize for each program where to go to get updates.

[Webhostbudd]

Would make it even more simple to make it:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude upgrade

[sem1845]

there is a program called sumo by kc software that you might like

[Razor512]

you could use http://driveragent.com/ to check for which ones are outdated then use google to find them (the scan is free but they charge to download from them so just use them to find which ones are outdated then do the google work your self to find the downloads

but keep in mind that most drivers don't need to be updated

the main ones to keep up to date are videocard drivers as games constantly change for for the rest, they rarely need updates

[Msaminano10]

Does anybody know of a good automatic Driver Updater. I already tried Drvier Max, did not work.

Thanks Tyler

try to download the best Driver Update.