Windows 10 is such a pain, I want to manually install drivers through device manager but it won't allow it, it keeps saying your drivers are already the best, which is not the case
I'm like a kid in a candy store at Microcenter. :) The one in Overland Park, Kansas is always great to go to. They are very helpful even when I get quite technical. Recently I had to exchange a bad power supply. No issues with their in-house parts when it comes to exchanges. :)
Always enjoy your advice, your recommendations invariably uplifting the capabilities of those like myself who otherwise would struggle. The Archer installer being of particular interest, I'm all ears as to your insights as to how best to manage this delightful accessory.
Mr. Titus, thank you in reviewing Snappy Driver. I recently restored an old Asus Transformer and was missing some key drivers. Snappy Driver resolved the missing culprits and I was able to trace an unknown driver by it's hardware number to finish off the renegades in device manager. I wish I could like this video more than once.
Wanted a tool to try an automatize my driver updates. Tried it, bricked my PC, recovery didn't work so I did a fresh install, tried the tool again (I was suspicious that the first time around was due to something else since I had just had a blue screen), bricked the system yet again, currently doing the second fresh install... Chris, we love you, but this thing shouldn't be recommended! Half the people in the comments either mention how Malwarebytes flagged it, and the other half (including me) had a bad experience with it.
I like the maker stuff at Microcenter. I was able to get a raspberry pi 4 at a great price when they were sold out on Amazon. (Commenting for the algorithm and your sponsor)
I remember you were quite impressed by the automatic windows 11 driver install done by Microsoft on a fresh installation. Thx for the update on your thoughts going forward, and this quality vid: There are an awful lot of very bad quality vids on Windows Drivers. They lack the practical detail and experience that you share.
That is so funny I went to a Micro Center shop today and watched this video for the first time. Its a pretty cool place, with basically every PC component you need, and other accessories like mouses, headphones, console things, etc.
I love snappy driver installer, i use this alot with my clients when i fix pcs, One of the best tools out there and keeps local copies of the drivers for the tool (if you choose to download them)
I've been using this tool for a while, even before you posted about it. And it's intentions were amazing. Nowadays though, Malwarebytes gets triggered by this particular tool. Events are labeled as RTP detections with details such as trojans, riskware, compromised websites, and even a straight up virus (Neshta.Virus.FileInfector.DDS) was detected. I think it would be safe to back away from this tool altogether (even the one linked specifically in the description) until we can find a tool that truly is not triggering anti-virus protections like crazy.
I need to update several drivers while I'm reading your comment I need some help. It's recommended or not? I'm using Avast by the way, but I'm gonna remove it to install Malwarebytes Thanks in advance
@@davidfalcon3857 Have Malwarebytes or some other reputable anti-virus installed and running if you must use SDI for drivers. It seems to have blocked all of the nasties. Should be a last resort though. Otherwise, the safest method would be to look up the hardware IDs to your devices on Google (found on the Properties section of each device in Device Manager) to find the make/model of the device and then search the manufacturer websites for the actual driver. Hope this helps.
THANK YOU!!!!! I've been assembling a pc for my dad, using my older spare parts due to his not needing a ripper of a 'pooter. So this will hopefully make my life 100% better, thank you again!
Wow this program is great I have an Acer Aspire Laptop that has no windows 10 driver support on the Acer web site, but this program found everything for windows 10. N1 Chris you are the man.
0:56 - Micro Center truly is heaven and I'm glad they appear to be growing as far as getting the word out through many different tech RU-vidrs, but it would be nice if there were more locations or if they had more items available for shipping. The latest $50 off promo for the 4 mentioned CPUs is awesome and I'm truly blessed to live less than 5 miles from the nearest location 😁
I hate when windows installs drivers for me. I always have to block the pending driver updates that comes up when i press search for updates. It always installs old display drivers.
Thanks for the tool recommend, though I only really encounter driver issues when it comes to either older Acer laptops, or laptops with goofy trackpad manufacturers, where even the manufacturer’s website can’t decide whether it’s an ELAN trackpad or the other brand whose name escapes me.
What a great utility. For a long time I've had minor, niggly issues, all drivers are latest. SDIO actually installed some older ones and/or different ones and had no issues for an hour or so .. Way to go!
Just a reminder - don't fix things if they are not broken! I gave it a go, despite not having problems, and the program succesfuly bricked my laptop keyboard. I had to use System Restore. Also, the automatic restore point created by the program didn't fix the missing keyboard. Always make MANUAL restore point before playing with drivers!
for my personal rig, i only install the minimum set of drivers that i need. if there are devices that don't have drivers and aren't working, then so be it. if i'm not using it, why should hackers get to use it? one less attack vector. can't turn on a web cam if the os doesn't even know the device exist because the drivers aren't even in the system to begin with.
IMO no especially if you`re running an AMD powered system because of the second huge performance issue caused by the Win11 TPM 2.0 in combination with AMD`s TPM version from the end of January
@Watcher see "A key Windows 11 security feature is causing AMD performance issues" (27 Jan 2022) on the "Tech Advisor" website as only one example which explains that now for the second time (!!) in three months (!!) there are significant performance issues with devices powered by AMD ... this time the TPM module is to blame, because the issue seems to be caused by compatibility issues between AMD’s TPM (known as “fTPM”) and Windows TPM 2.0 , as opposed to a bug within the OS itself that`s what I found on the Internet, don`t kown whether it`s fixed already I`m running an AMD powered system (5600X + RX6700XT), but I`m definitely not in a hurry, neither with my modern gaming PC, nor with my elder normal Intel "office" PC, which isn`t compatible with Win11, because Win10 will be supported until Oktober 14th 2025 and since release my meanwhile "debloated" Win10 Home 21H2 works fine for me on my machines without any issues ... as we all should know: "Never change a running system unless you have to." ;-) Sorry, but for me, Win11 is absolutely not an option for a long time and as it looks so far I will keep my hands off it and hope for something much better from Microsoft, if they can still do it at all. Maybe a Windows 12 would help, because it seems to be common that certain new Windows versions are worth almost nothing and am best are skipped by most users. My hope is that "something with Linux" will be much better in the next few years, especially for the gaming genre and for passionate gamers like me, because my gaming passion is actually the only reason why I continue to use Windows especially on my “gaming” PC.
@Watcher Hello, Watcher, thank you very much for your very kind comment, I really appreciated that, especially because English isn`t my native language ... "you made my day" as they say ... Cheers !! ... and best wishes from Germany
I remember I tried to change some automatically installed drivers for some of the new drivers that were in the official web, and when you uninstall the one you want to delete, PC asks for a reboot, and when you reboot Windows already installed it again, such a pain in the ass
1) Snappy Driver sometimes shows drivers with a more recent date but a lower version number. How is this to be understood? In such a case, should the more recent date or the higher version number be preferred? 2) Which is the correct startup file for Windows 11 64-bit? Of the files with "x64" in the name there are SDI_x64_R2201.exe SDI_x64_R2309.exe SDIO_x64_R749.exe SDIO_x64_R756.exe Maybe I overlooked something in your video.
Your debloat script is too much closed to to my tastes. It automatically installs the tools which I don't want. And could install when I needed. First few version which just debloated were great. Couldn't you separate the options for debloat and optional installs. Until then I'm sticking with Sycnex's debloat script. BTW, this video is good stuff.
I am also less keen on the automatic installs issue. The current tool I find not so bad though on that issue, as it only installs winget and some O&O stuff , I think, the rest is optional via a button click
Used this app to try to restore a driver that disappeared. Not only did it not get me the missing driver, now I've lost all audio and I've been poking around my comp for 2 hours trying to get sound back. Some "upgrade" for my drivers.
Thanks for the automatic driver installation setting tip. I've had the problem at least twice already that my graphics driver has been updated automatically without my consent, affecting performance when I wanted that to be consistent/replicatable and rendering the GUI broken. Somehow I didn't research that yet though, probably because the setting in DDU doesn't seem to work anymore. Will set that soon on my PC, so I am again more in control. Will also check out your mentioned debloat script. :)
Hey Chris, would you recommend Intel Chipset Drivers? (SM Bus Controller / Intel Management Engine) It's a 750mb download from my vendors website and just seems like added bloat.
A guy that looks just like me bought his laptop at microcenter. It was a return that they upgraded with a SSD and 8GB of RAM. ("Lenovo" Y-520) I wanna say it cost him like 800 bucks for an uppgrayyedd (for a double dose of this pimpin) gaming laptop. Pretty solid deal man. He's still using it, and he bought that thing like 8-10 years ago.
I have an aging Dell E6440 that has an AMD 8600M series dedicated GPU. The problem is, when Windows (10 or 11) installs the driver for it, it BSOD and corrupts the system, If I use the Snappy Driver app, it also do the same thing. Apparently the latest driver for this old GPU has that "annoying" bug. The only way to fix it is using the penultimate driver released that has no bugs. Ive only found this issue on this particular laptop...
I don't know if you read the comments but this is really strange. I lost sound on my laptop. It still worked with earphones and connect to wireless display. I run Fedora from the USB and sound OK. Rebooted into Windows and now the sound is OK. Really weird, right.
This bricked my PC. Attempts to load into windows, keeps spinning, no error messages, reboots several times, goes to blue screen trouble shooter. All settings were left at default values as shown on your copy. BRICKED! Any help would be appreciated.
The thing is no matter what I disabled windows kept updating my GPU driver on my laptop. Well yeah, updating. Always downloaded a 1y/o version of it. Since I went to Linux no problems at all. Running mint on my laptop for basic office stuff and everything is fine. The problem with the windows driver was the colour output was so weird sometimes and it always installed the lite version so you could not change anything in the settings. When you installed the propper version it just went and removed it again.
Thanks! Amazing video. Updated all the drivers. Wow! Too bad the Razer Engine stopped working and now, there is nothing that makes it be installed again on my PC. Any idea what went wrong??
Comletely messed up mh audio drivers!!! I am using a dell inspiron 15 3501. Updated all the drivers with SDIO. Then my audio started acting funny. It wont detect headphones without reboot, also microphone stopped working. Even tried restore point but still didn't work. Installed the driver manually from dells site for multiple times. At first it didn’t work but now working some how!!! Killed so much of my time, as I had my exams going on, and I needed laptop for studies!
With my Windows 11, I've lost some functions now, the clipboard only holds one item, and if I go down to the windows and right-click, I don't get the menu that comes up. It starts flickering.
I bought a second-hand computer with Windows 10 pro, actually it is new from a company off-load. One of the first things I did was look for driver updates. I stumbled upon a software called Bit Driver Updater and installed and used it. It seems to do a good job. Is it doing the job? Non-professionals like me really do not know what any of this stuff does.
hello there snappy driver installer origin is so good but i have a question after downloading and installing drivers should i delete those already downloaded and installed drivers found in the "drivers folder" within driver installer origin ?
Stumbled across your video. I just built a computer that wont connect to the internet because its missing drivers. So with Snappy Drivers, can I download a driver in put it on a different computer via usb?
What's the deal with snappy driver installer recommending optimal drivers from 1968? I have a z690 DDR4 Intel. There's like five of them they're recommending from the same time frame. Should I keep away considering they're that old?
I recently "upgraded" to a clean install of windows 11, however using SDIO, it claims there is no updates for any of my drivers, even though I only let Windows install the initial drivers, including very old Display drivers that it upgraded from in Windows 10. Any idea why it doesn't seem to be working in Windows 11?
i have four pcs in my home two amd two intel running this driver update tool took out the keyboards and all usb ports on the intel systems i tried it on the second intel one after it bricked the first one just for curiosity and it did bricked that one too forcing me to use remote desktop to get keyboard and mouse back to be able to system restore which thankfully worked
Hey man i watched your video about nvcleanstall, but every time i instaled those drivers the dynamic boost 2.0 would be disabled and the gpu would use 80W out of 130W maximum (im using a laptop with rtx 3060). Is there a way to fix this because it really has a big impact on performance?
Speaking of faulty drivers, lately on my HP dy2037nr notebook (running Windows 11), a driver named "Intel Software Component" kept failing to install by Windows Update. Oddly enough, Intel's driver assistant had no issues (and reported no driver updates). Something shady if you ask me.
I have a intel i5 m 540 cpu which intel dont give support for windows 10. So on some fresh installations rarely it detects and install intel hd graphics and most of the times it don't. And for them to work i have to literally install windows 10-15 times such a pain in ass
My PC is an older hp that runs good except when Windows 10 updates. The USB 3.0 driver gets replaced and consequently stops working , the next update will SOMETIMES change it so the usb works again. I tried the command to block driver updates but it still does it. I copied the good driver to a holding location but even trying to manually update it comes back and says the best driver it ALREADY LOADED. 😡😡 Any suggestions
How would you compare running Snappy Driver versus going directly to the manufacturer (as you recommended)? Snappy Driver seems like the easier way to go but are they equivalent?
Now if MS would just keep its fingers out of GPU control panels. They keep updating mine on my laptop and breaking it. I keep downloading the latest one from AMD, and it's broken again in days... The driver itself isn't being updated, but the control panel gets whacked. Funny thing though, its so proud of itself that it creates a notification saying that it installed the latest one and that I should check it out... And I think to myself, you just broke my stuff again and you're bragging about it? Thanks MS for being so dang helpful!
I would love to run the program you have here to update drivers I usually use driver easy but it's the free version and it's going to run out soon. I would love to use this software but the problem I'm having is whenever I download the packet I can't run the software I don't have the application necessary to run it. So I noticed that you brought up a software to run the packet in I don't know what this is and it's so blurry in the background it's hard for me to see so if you could tell me how you're running. The sdio software the way you are that would be great choose software to open with.
have saw many videos about windows optimization for gaming but none of them I cant trust.If you can made a new video about this topic would very helpful for gamers like us who does not have powerful PC for gaming.BTW appreciate your optimization guids
