80% Of All Computer Malfunctions Occur Because People... Forget to Update Drivers
If you are a Windows user and suffer from an annoyingly slow computer, strange errors, freezes and crashes — this article may be your best find of 2024.
But first thing first.
According to Microsoft, 75% of errors, freezes and crashes occur on computers with driver problems.
19 out of 20 Americans forget to update drivers regularly
For the majority of them, the computer becomes 5-10% slower every 6 months.
Have you ever experienced a situation like this?
It seems like you use the computer in exactly the same way, but it becomes slower. As if… On its own.
How old is your computer?
Have you noticed that a year after the purchase, it becomes 10-20% slower than at the very beginning? After 5 years, it becomes 40% slower. And then it is thrown into the trash as outdated, slow, buggy junk.
Have you ever wondered WHY this is happening?
And this is not a conspiracy of large companies, not planned obsolescence. The solution has always been very close, it's just that few people talk about it. You just need to... update the drivers regularly.
In the next 5 minutes, I will tell you what drivers are, how they affect the state of your computer, and how you can fix all problems in a couple of clicks.
In short, the driver is an instruction for the operating system on how to use a particular device. And there are 3 major concerns with drivers:
- Drivers regularly become outdated
Manufacturers are constantly improving hardware and drivers so that you can use 100% of the capabilities of what's in your laptop or system unit.
If you don't update the drivers, you become out of date.
The manufacturer offers you an increase in speed by 5% — you don't answer them, which means you refuse. Next month they offer a new improvement, another 5% — you refuse.
Therefore, according to statistics, every 6 months your computer slows down by 5-10%. Simply because you didn't know beforehand that the drivers needed to be updated.
- Outdated drivers = vulnerability for hackers
Antiviruses do not guarantee 100% protection, and the most dangerous vulnerabilities are hidden in outdated drivers. If they are hacked, the hardware manufacturer urgently releases an update — a new driver.
And you skip this update, remaining vulnerable. Vulnerabilities lead to the appearance of extortion viruses, crypto miners, and other junk, which can not only actively harm but also simply remain unnoticed slowing down your computer.
- Drivers may be damaged or basically missing
What happens if the computer doesn't have instructions on how to manage… A graphics card for example? Of course, PC will figure it out, but it will use the hardware only at 10% of its potential.
And probably everyone has dealt with damaged drivers. Have you ever been in a situation like this — you connect a mouse, and it doesn't work? In 90% of cases, this is due to driver malfunctions.
What can be done about it?
Option 1. Regularly monitor and update drivers manually.
Some people do that. It's tedious, long and dangerous if you download drivers not from the original manufacturer sites.
What is the complication of manual search:
there are more than 35,000,000 drivers
more than 1,300 companies create their own drivers
Therefore, first you need to find the company that created your device. Then the necessary driver of the latest version. And then regularly visit the manufacturer's website and see if anything new has appeared.
Option 2. Delegate this task to special driver update programs.
Thanks for reading to the end
Hope this content helps you to be safe and enjoy your computer :)