downloading device drivers from windows update and onecare.

[Terry Bean]

The general advice in this newsgroup is to only download device drivers
from the manufactures web site.

Unfortunately users of Onecare from Microsoft are not allowed to do this.
Onecare will download device drivers immediately without asking the user
thus making it impossible not to dowload it first.

This information is available from Stephen Boots Microsoft MVP - Windows
Live
Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator.

Further information available in
microsoft;public.live.onecare.generaldiscussion

Regards

 

[Paul Montgomery]

The general advice in this newsgroup is to only download device drivers
from the manufactures web site.

While I think that's good advice, I also think it's a carryover from
the days of XP when gettiing those updates from Windows Update could
be disastrous.

I accidentally permitted a driver installation on this machine after I
installed Vista and had no such disaster.