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Why do I need to update drivers?
The reason you should update drives is for better hardware performance. With programs ever changing it is hard to keep your hardware (i.e.. sound card, modem, video card) up to date. Also every program has flaws that are not found until the program is already on selves. This can prevent a piece of hardware from performing to its fullest and even cause unwanted errors and problems. The best thing to do is got to the manufacture website. Here you will be able to find the most up to date drivers. Here is how you update you drivers.
DON'T FORGET YOU WILL NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE NEW DRIVERS BEFORE DOING THIS!!!!
You can usually get these from the manufactures website i.e.
(www.ati.com for a ati product)
RIGHT CLICK ON THE "MY COMPUTER" ICON
CLICK PROPERTIES AND THIS SCREEN WILL APPEAR
FROM HERE CLICK ON THE HARDWARE TAB
THEN CLICK ON "DEVICE MANAGER" AND THIS WINDOW WILL APPEAR:
NOTE: NOT ALL WILL LOOK THE SAME. IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT KIND OF HARDWARE YOUR COMPUTER HAS.
HERE I WILL USE A SCANNER AS EXAMPLE. ALL DEVICE ARE DIFFERENT BUT WORK THE SAME. SO YOU WILL WANT TO CLICK ON THE + TO SHOW WHAT DEVICES YOU HAVE UNDER THAT CATEGORY. (I.E. MODEM FOR MODEM AND DISPLAY ADAPTERS FOR YOUR VIDEO CARD)
THEN WHEN YOU FIND WANT YOU WANT TO UPDATE DOUBLE CLICK ON THE DEVICE. THEN THE DEVICE PROPERTIES WILL POP UP ON YOUR SCREEN.
ONCE THIS WINDOW APPEARS CLICK THE DRIVER TAB
THEN FROM HERE CLICK ON UPDATE DRIVER, AND YOU WILL GET THIS WINDOW:
ONCE YOU GET HERE WINDOWS WILL WALK YOU THROUGH THE REST.