Snappy or not?

[RetiredGuy1000]

So whats the scoop on Snappy Driver? Seems like a valuable service if it does what it says it does. I mean, how many esoteric device driver updates do we check for regularly? Not many. Seems that every computer should be run to ensure everything is updated..

 

[Porthos]

So whats the scoop on Snappy Driver? Seems like a valuable service if it does what it says it does. I mean, how many esoteric device driver updates do we check for regularly? Not many. Seems that every computer should be run to ensure everything is updated..

As long as you get the correct version... https://www.snappy-driver-installer.org/ and have a flash drive large enough, It is a good investment in time to create it and keep it updated.

I just about 30 minutes ago used it flawlessly.

 

[marley1]

Never used, just go to the manufactures website

 

[Markverhyden]

Never used, just go to the manufactures website

Or PCI/VEN

 

[GreyWolf]

@Markverhyden I'm with you on that one however some Chinese knock offs are using same codes for some seriously malicious drivers.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Paging @glennd call your office, please.

 

[nlinecomputers]

SDIO is a great product on Windows 7 systems to make sure that you can get proper drivers installed. I don't often need to use it on Windows 10 and sometimes it breaks things on 10. Most of the time Windows 10 will find the best driver all by itself. Microsoft has worked very hard with hardware vendors to improve the driver resources at Microsoft. It's not perfect but most of the time works very well.

 

[glennd]

Paging @glennd call your office, please.

huh? what time is it? Is the movie over?

 

[HCHTech]

Most of the time Windows 10 will find the best driver all by itself.

I continue to be amazed by this and think Microsoft doesn't get enough credit for doing (at least) one thing right. We only have to chase the odd acceleration sensor driver or fingerprint reader driver these days. That doesn't mean they don't screw this up, though by overwriting a perfectly good driver and breaking things during a random update.

 

[nlinecomputers]

huh? what time is it? Is the movie over?

*Smacks arm* wake up. Time to do the SDIO elevator pitch.

 

[glennd]

*Smacks arm* wake up. Time to do the SDIO elevator pitch.

oh, umm, ok.

I agree with @nlinecomputers, Win10 is handling drivers much better these days though I've experienced the situation where a good install got messed up by win 10 updating the drivers. SDIO gives you the ability to try out various versions of a driver to find the one that works for the machine in question. My general approach for pre-win10 is to run sdio immediately after installation and that's usually enough. With win 10 i let Windows do it's own drivers and run SDIO afterwards to complete the job if needed. I still come across the odd machine that Windows can't even get started with because it lacks network drivers, in these cases SDIO has saved me. I keep it on my iODD and it's fast and simple. For Windows 10 I set it to show me only missing drivers.

Don't go the route of blindly updating all the drivers all the time. 99% of the time you'll get away with it and that last time you'll end up breaking things and blaming the tools for your bad decisions. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

@nlinecomputers was that alright?

 

[RetiredGuy1000]

I keep it on my iODD

I can’t get my IODD to be recognized by windows as a drive for some reason. Tried the various settings. Love the concept of it but I need to figure out how to fool windows into believing it’s a drive.

 

[glennd]

I can’t get my IODD to be recognized by windows as a drive for some reason. Tried the various settings. Love the concept of it but I need to figure out how to fool windows into believing it’s a drive.

have you checked their site http://iodd.kr lots of good info

 

[RetiredGuy1000]

Yes I have but not as intensively as I need to. I really want it to work.

 

[nlinecomputers]

oh, umm, ok.

I agree with @nlinecomputers, Win10 is handling drivers much better these days though I've experienced the situation where a good install got messed up by win 10 updating the drivers. SDIO gives you the ability to try out various versions of a driver to find the one that works for the machine in question. My general approach for pre-win10 is to run sdio immediately after installation and that's usually enough. With win 10 i let Windows do it's own drivers and run SDIO afterwards to complete the job if needed. I still come across the odd machine that Windows can't even get started with because it lacks network drivers, in these cases SDIO has saved me. I keep it on my iODD and it's fast and simple. For Windows 10 I set it to show me only missing drivers.

Don't go the route of blindly updating all the drivers all the time. 99% of the time you'll get away with it and that last time you'll end up breaking things and blaming the tools for your bad decisions. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

@nlinecomputers was that alright?

Yes except for leaving out that YOU are the maintainer of SDIO.

 

[cypress]

It has been great for Windows 7 but I am pretty much 95% Windows 10 now and anything Windows 7 will be upgraded to 10 within the next upcoming months.