just wondering if anyone has ever seen a program that searches a computer for updates to current drivers you have

the only reason i ask is i sent in an error log into microsoft and they said it was because of a driver, but low and behold i thought i had the updated drivers, I GUESS I WAS WRONG!

anyways i'd appreciate it, i tried google but only thing i found was some radarsync site that didnt seem too helpful

1/30/2006 1:15:04 PM

Check your hardware manager for the current driver installed. Then go look online for the most current driver available. Completely uninstall your current driver (you may need to use some of the driver cleaning utils available for free online) and install the lates ones.

1/30/2006 2:30:42 PM

ibm has a thinkvantage application that checks the web for new drivers for all of their thinkpads

1/30/2006 2:45:55 PM

do not use the drivers on microsoft update

1/30/2006 3:06:04 PM

^ agreed. I've experienced this myself, they'll screw up your hardware bigtime. better to do it yourself.

1/30/2006 3:13:04 PM

lots of times those automatic updates are multiple years old so when you have a new driver, it is like that is out of date, take this ancient one...it will work perfectly!

1/30/2006 4:44:28 PM

ok i didnt just mean drivers

what about software

say i have adobe 6.2.3.3.3.3.3 but i want 6.2.3.3.3.3.55 or something

are their programs that check to see what programs you can upgrade?

i remember about 7 years ago cnet had a program but it must have long since been gone

1/30/2006 4:47:50 PM