> Robert: “I wonder what the differences are between the fork and the original!”Īpparently, sometime between end 2016 & early 2017, Snappy Driver Installer (under SamLab) started including adware/PUPs in the compiled builds distributed to the public. > Jojo: “So why does this fork exist? What does it bring to the table?” On a positive note, it’s not an ad server that finds drivers like DB is and doesn’t seed your registry insanely. Maybe Snappy is better now, if I get stuck, I might try it again. There are times when the manufacturer’s site or device’s site either don’t have updates or recommend updates years old that are claimed current and a utility may help, otherwise, probably not. DB is simple, Snappy is quite disorganized, on par with the old version of Windows Firewall Control, too many “wtf did that do?” moments. I’ve used other driver update utilities, Driver Booster comes to mind. Second time I tried it it froze repeatedly, so it was uninstalled. The interface is very confusing, you can either get updates online or download a billion of them at once, good if you trust this enough to take the file to another machine and that only makes sense if the other machine is similar to the first. So, I updated a number of drivers after looking closely at the details and no problems “better” IDK, but nothing was hosed, a low bar to cross. Used it for a time and it finds lots of drivers, how it knows which version is “better” IDK. ![]() Lemme see, how many HDD’s have I replaced over the years…? The wiki will explain why that’s almost no wear. After 3 years it’s at 90% life with a lot of video editing done on it. We have one SSD in my laptop a Toshiba NVMe. This will give you an estimate how much life your SSD has. A lot of what you find online otherwise is old info, there’s not much new stuff because SSD’s work well now. Wikipedia has a good up to date article about SSD’s. When SSD’s first came out, like a decade ago, there were some flaky ones that started ideas that are no longer true but still floating around. Restore only saves incremental changes, not everything each time. SSD’s don’t have an inherently shorter life than a HDD, although their failure modes are different. Restores don’t decrease the life of a SSD anymore than any other read writes. With the assumption that SSD’s have a shorter life than HDD’s, restores would be best saved on a HDD or externally. The interface needs a refresh though I'd like to see options to display installed and new drivers directly side by side to compare them directly. The application is easy to use and includes an option to create system restore points. You may want to download the full driver package if you use the program regularly to update drivers on client, family, or friend systems. Snappy Driver Installer Origins is a useful program for Windows administrators and users. max upload speed or the port that is used, the download path, or add commands that you want executed after installation of drivers.Įxpert Mode enables filter options so that you may display only drivers that are newer or better than the installed one among other things. Use the options to change torrent settings, e.g. Seeding seems to indicate that drivers get downloaded using torrents and that is verified in the options when you enable Expert Mode.Ĭheck the "Expert Mode" box to displays additional options doing so unlocks the options menu to change the configuration. Options are provided to hide missing driver packs and to "continue seeding after the download is finished". You may check some or all to download them to the local system. The drivers download window displays all available drivers and information such as the size of the driver. Snappy Driver Installer Origin hides all drivers that were not installed until the system is restarted to complete the installation of the driver. Some driver installations require a restart. ![]()
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