I use Slim drivers , this is always free , and never gets it wrong . I disagree with you chaps about not updating drivers . Why would companies go to the bother of writing updates , if not to fix a bug or improve performance ?

Apart from my NVidia graphics card driver, I do not bother too much about any other driver updates. What I do, however, find useful is the File Hippo Update Checker. I find it very good and reliable. http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker/

"Why would company's spend time and money updating drivers if no one was going to use them."

If all PCs were identical, it would be a very different - and rather boring - world. The fact is, scarcely any two are alike. All have different combinations of hardware and software - from an enormous range of suppliers. That's the opposite of the Apple paradigm, where the environment is very tightly controlled. So, in the Apple case, you get their renowned stability and lack of problems - but limited flexibility. In the PC case, you get almost unlimited flexibility - but it's that that can make PCs unstable and problem-prone. Driver manufacturers typically update their drivers for specific combinations of hardware and software that turned out to not work well with the earlier drivers - or it may well be new hardware and/or software. But if you don't have that hardware/software/driver combination, and you're not seeing any problems, and your performance is acceptable and you have the features you desire, there is absolutely no need to update a driver.

Jock1e - Apart from taking about 4 times longer than it should have probably because of all the downloads world wide it installed with no problems.

Download and use DAP (Download Accelerator Plus) which is quicker. I have used it for years, the FREE version. Give it a try, I don't think you will be disappointed. enter link description here