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Windows Driver Updater - Free (and worth far, far less)

Started by Saint, Feb 13 2012 02:13 PM

windows drivers updater

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 02:13 PM

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Keeping your Windows drivers up to date can be a nuisance. SlimDrivers is a free utility recommended by PC World. Can you ask better than a PC World recommend? Can you ask better than free?

SlimDrivers is fast and easy to use. You can quickly update dozens of drivers.

Funny thing, though. It does not merely update your drivers with the manufacturers' latest versions. It sometimes replaces them with something entirely different.

The really big surprise was that it destroyed my entire previous internet connection. Instead, as their idea of a desirable update, it installed BigPond from Telstra, an Australian company. This happily offered to connect me to the internet at $15 per MB.

SlimDrivers is highly recommended by me for anybody who wants to keep their hand in at doing system restore.

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 02:52 PM

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HAHAHAHAHA!! That would have sucked, sours. By the way, that Telstra deal sounds like a standard pre-paid 'plan'...

Reminds me, though...I updated my display drivers yesterday (or today, whichever way you want to look at it). Afterwards, my graphics started working a fair bit better. Unfortunately, a game I play (you may have heard of it - Minecraft) started having graphical glitches (some fine white lines were appearing around blocks and in mid-air above torches). Quite weird, actually.

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 06:36 PM

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haha i never trust anything from PC World after i went in for a game waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back and i came across a woman in the printer ink section that was puzzled by all the inks. Before i got to her to ask if i could help a store labourer went off to find out whatever. I simple asked what was her printer, she told me and i got the inks OFF THE SHELF for her (always read the label for what inks fit your printer).

Ive NEVER been back to PC World for the lab rats there know nothing... oh tell a lie, i went to get my mum a laptop without all the rubbish they try to sell you and it's a good laptop too. was in sale for £300 i think and was a bargin at the time

now a days i buy games online from http://www.thehut.com , stream, http://www.greenmangaming.co.uk/ , i did used to get it from direct2drive but they have changed hands and the games seem a rip off at the moment with no deals