Have You Ever Wondered Why You Should Keep Drivers Up to Date?
Have You Ever Wondered Why You Should Keep Drivers Up to Date
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You've probably heard people suggest you make sure your drivers are up to date when asking about computer problems. It seems like such an integral part of your PC, yet a lot of people don't know what drivers are, or what they do. What is clear, however, is that some of the most common computer problems can be fixed by simply keeping your drivers up to date.
Device drivers are programs written specifically to tell a piece of hardware how it's supposed to behave. Your video card, sound card, printer, even your keyboard all need drivers to work how they were designed. You see, these devices only know how to work based on commands their drivers give them. Computers send generic signals to the device, and the driver acts as a translator converting those signals into a language the device understands.
So why do you need to update your drivers? Just from reading the last paragraph you can see how important drivers really are. So doesn't it make sense that keeping them updated regularly would make your PC run smoother?
Maybe to some, but if you're like me, that answer isn't quite good enough. So let's talk a bit about common issues drivers have.
When you buy a piece of software, very rarely is it running at its very best. In today's world where just about every one who has a computer is on line, a lot of software companies don't mind releasing programs that have a few tiny bugs here and there. This is because updates and patches can be downloaded and applied to any piece of software on your computer. Furthermore, some times software just needs to be able to stay up to date with the latest changes. Your anti-virus, for example, needs to be able to stay current with all the latest known virus', and remedies. I don't know about you, but mine updates just about every day.
Drivers are no different. As hardware is released, so is its driver, but that driver can always be improved. Unfortunately, drivers also have a very bad reputation of being buggy. So much so that new, critical updates are released every single day for the latest bugs that have come up.
Also, like the anti-virus, new technologies appear and compatibility issues arise because the "standard" way of doing things advances in a number of ways. Drivers must be able to work according to these new standards, or else you would have to purchase new hardware every time OS compatibility changes, or new graphic techniques appear, and so on.
With so many virus' and spyware running rampant on line, keeping your drivers up to date and working properly is especially important. Many of these malicious programs are designed to target specific devices and corrupt their drivers. I personally don't understand why there are those out there writing such programs, but it's important to keep our defense high against them. Making sure your drivers are up to date and working properly is one of the best defenses you can have.
Let's say I've convinced you then, that keeping your drivers up to date is mandatory in a smooth running PC. With so many devices that make up a computer, how can you possibly stay up to date with all of them?
The answer is driver scanning software. It used to be that if you learned that a driver was out of date (and that generally happens once it's broken and errors start appearing) you would have to find out the make and model of the device, then spend hours with a search engine trying to find the latest, official and working driver for that device. Today there are a number of scanning programs that will scan your entire system and figure out which ones need updating. The higher end versions of this software will actual download and install all those out of date or broken drivers for you. With this software, keeping all your devices and their drivers up to date really only takes a matter of minutes.
Knowing the importance of drivers, and why we should keep them up to date, I urge to at the very least scan your system and make sure your devices are up to date. Your computer and it's components could be working much better, and faster if their drivers are completely optimized and working properly.
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