Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Finding the right drivers...

I don't mean cars, I mean computer program needed to make everything interact together the way it's supposed to for it all to work, which is why they are called drivers or "device drivers." It can be a challenge to make sure you have the right one, the one that's the most updated, just the right one you need for a particular video card as an example. Which is something we just recently went through with my husband's computer and that was quite a challenge.

That's where the internet can come in handy, whether you are looking for linksys drivers or for nvidia drivers the manufacturer's website doesn't always have the exact one you need, especially if you have an older model computer. I've found it is typically much easier to find drivers at a site that specializes in drivers than searching through the manufacturers websites...

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