any one using an automatic driver update freeware atall, pls include your suggestions...

thanks

The best way is to go to the manufacture's site. You will not able to find one that free. Driver genuine pro or Driver magician is popular but you have to pay.

I don't wish to sound too negative, but I recently did a driver update from HP, and it screwed my pc.

The old BSOD.

And it took a while to work out that it was the newly installed HP drivers causing it. I learned later, that this is not uncommon with HP driver updates.

I now have it carved into my desk "leave drivers alone unless they are either broken or badly in need of updating".

Just thought I'd mention that for anyone thinking of updating drivers just because there's an update available, and not because it's actually needed.

Completely agree with that, I learned a while ago to stick to drivers that work for the most part. Tried updating my graphics drivers on my laptop a couple of months ago and found it wouldn't set the amount of RAM to use for graphics to the maximum 256MB, it just refused to accept it. Went back to the old drivers and it worked fine again.
Have had issues with HP drivers too, it's well worth checking the various fixes hidden away on their site somewhere. There's a whole page of downloads on their site that fix various issues, I found a couple of fixes for things that I didn't even realise were the fault of the HP software

Its not too hard to revert to an old driver under safe mode, boot last known good or other methods to overcome a bad driver crashing the kernel. WHQL certification helped a fair bit for driver quality. Usually I'll upgrade to new WHQL releases for drivers.

good sound advice that I take on board ! many thanks !!

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Those links in your sig look like spam to me (alot like links this board was being spammed with recently too)

You may be joke :-)

They all link to the same site!
Why have three (supposedly different) links to the same site?

Nope, deadly serious. If they're not spam then just remove them (you're lucky the moderators are giving you the benefit of the doubt so far).

EDIT: Correction, they are spam. Having just checked it out it's the bog standard "Download a 'freebie' that installs a program you can't do anything with without paying for it"