How to update your drivers with Driver Genius
Driver Genius makes updating your drivers quick and easy.
Here’s how you do it…
Step 1 — Choose your operating system
Start Driver Genius and click Update Drivers on the main menu.
Now select your operating system from the list.
Click Next.
Step 2 — Scan for driver updates
Driver Genius will now scan your computer for outdated drivers.
The scan only takes a minute or so.
Step 3 — Choose a driver to update
All out-of-date drivers are selected by default, so uncheck the ones you don’t want to update.
I’m going to update my keyboard driver.
Step 4 — Download your new driver
If there’s more than one driver in the download manager, click the one you want to download to select it.
Click Download.
Driver Genius will now connect to the driver download centre and download your new driver.
You’ll get a Windows taskbar pop up message when the driver download is complete.
Step 5 — Install your new driver
Click Install.
You will now get a message asking if you want to back up your drivers.
I recommend you do back up your drivers, so click Yes and follow the instructions (check out How to back up your drivers with Driver Genius to see how it’s done).
After backing up your drivers, click Install again, this time click No when you get the “back up your current drivers” message.
Driver Genius will launch your new driver’s installer.
Follow the driver installer’s instructions to install it. This ususally involves clicking “OK” a few times.
Step 6 — Restart your computer
You can now restart your computer when prompted, or you can update more drivers. It’s up to you.
And that’s it. Done.
Any questions?
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