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Well I’m now seeing the trend in Driver Cleaner products becoming all the rage. Buy software to remove old drivers. In the past I’ve never had issues trying to upgrade drivers UNLESS I changed manufacturer. Like if I went from ATI to nVidia or vice versa, I’d have problems. Today when I do this I don’t see the same problems, just uninstall the old and install the new.
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I usually advise clients that the vast bulk of these tools are simply nothing more than snake-oil products. However many self-proclaimed experts on many support forums tend to get annoyed with me making such statements. I feel their annoyance may simply reflect the fact that many of these products may well support these same sites, which would be a conflict of interest. Regardless, I’ve never seen any substantial GOOD come from these tools.
After reading this article on MaximumPC, I felt that I would quote the relevent sections to indicate that they are simply products to make you part with your money and nothing more. Few if any offer any serious advantage to the average person, and even fewer advantages to the average machine. Frankly I’ve seen a fair amount of work from people who use these tools and break their systems, so I guess I can be happy for the work. I’m positive I don’t know anyone who has anything ‘positive’ to say about these tools. Registry bloat is a non-issue and no one needs to delete dead old entries UNLESS they are relevent to a malware infection. In which case ’some’ of these tools can be handy in a malware cleaners toolbox, but only if they know what they are doing.
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