Sunday, September 19, 2010

SlimDrivers [Automated Driver Updates] - Coming Soon

SlimDrivers [Automated Driver Updates] - Coming Soon
This driver finder works and is free for now in BETA. One irritation is the insistence on reboot after a driver install. The first time it found only Windows updates (which I have no need of) but the recent update did find 3 new hardware drivers. I don't know if it keeps the driver somewhere (have not found them yet) but even if you select several drivers and download all, it downloads them one at a time, installs and forces a reboot. Be sure to set options to handle reboot, update, etc.

I would use this for driver finding first before trying others.

I have not tried it on XP yet and maybe the Windows update could be useful there.

Rufus and Windows 11 Upgrade

Once the Rufus drive is created, there is no need to boot from the drive to upgrade. Navigate to the Rufus drive and run setup.exe For a cle...