Over the last few years most of my video cards have had NVidia chipsets. And with these chipsets, open source drivers are iffy at times. Because of that I have often employed the use of proprietary drivers. It used to be a challenge to get these to work. Many times you had to recompile a [...]

Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

One would think that there should be at least some free working tools for the Windows operating system that allow users to scan if drivers installed on the computer system are up to date or need updating. A user searching for terms like Windows driver updates or driver updates will most likely be disappointed as [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Device Remover is a portable device manager for the Windows operating system. It is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 and requires the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0. The main advantage of Device Remover is the display of all installed devices, drivers and services on the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you are the type of computer user who likes to upgrade his computer with new hardware devices instead of purchasing a new computer whenever a speed, storage or performance update is due you might find the following tip interesting. It is very likely that old device drivers are still present on the system which [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Updating drivers can be a tedious job. One has to monitor the websites of the hardware manufacturers to keep up to date with new driver versions. Using a program to scan a computer system and check the driver versions against the latest drivers can help in the maintenance of the system. One free driver update [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A driver is a small software program that allows your computer hardware to communicate with the operating system installed on your machine. That means every piece of hardware right from the keyboard and mouse to your CD-Rom drive, video cards, etc. needs a driver if it’s going to function properly, irrespective of whether you’re a [...]

Categories: Gadgets, Hardware, Operating Systems

Double Driver is a software for Windows that can scan the system for installed drivers. All drivers that are found can be backed up the application and restored at a later point. This comes in quite handy if you purchase a computer and want to backup the initial set of drivers. It can be quite [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

There are two types of drivers in Windows XP, signed and unsigned ones. Signed ones have been verified and tested by Microsoft while unsigned ones have not. That does not have to be a bad thing though because the developer tends to test the drivers as well.

Categories: Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows

When you burn a CD or DVD in Windows, your DVD burner usually uses the DMA (Direct Memory Access) mode. Basically, this allows you to transfer large chunks of data onto your DVD, using as little CPU memory as possible. In other words, it helps you burn your DVDs faster. However, Windows has this weird [...]

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