Laptop Driver Auto Installer

[Anthony]

DellDrivers & Downloads website allows you to download drivers, firmware, and some software applications for Dell desktops, laptops, all-in-one computers, docking stations, tablets, mobile devices, printers, monitors, projectors, servers, storage and networking devices, and so on.

SupportAssist scans the Dell computer, detects existing drivers and Dell software utilities that are based on the operating system that is installed on the computer and proposes a list of recommended driver and software updates.

I've upgraded my PC from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Pro; overall it seems to be working fine, with small bugs here and there. One thing that I find really annoying is that Windows seems to think it is OK to install drivers and vendor-specific control panels for me.

It installs nothing, it is portable, it allows you to hide any update including drivers. This Software makes no changes to the normal windows update or your system (except for the updates you allow it to install) but does use the Windows update service, once you have hidden your updates and installed others you want, be sure to go into Windows Services and stop the Windows update service and then set it to disabled, or it will install the updates you hid using the other software.

Press , then type gpedit.msc and press . Once you get the Local Group Policy Editor like in the screenshot above, navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Device Installation and in the right pane double-click on the Specify search order for device driver installation option which will present you with the following dialog:

If you are unable to run gpedit.msc because you don't have a Pro version of Windows, then create the associated registry key manually using regedit.exe or by running the following command from the command prompt as Administrator:

Finally, please note that this might not prevent automatic installation of companion applications (things like Alienware Control Center, Intel's CPU/GPU DRM services, HP printer and scanner applications, etc).

Those companion apps are categorized as software "devices" (each of them has a unique ID), and they are automatically installed from Windows Store when you install the drivers, unless you take steps to block their installation beforehand.

I want to do clean windows installation on my laptop and install all drivers from laptop manufacturer site. The problem is when I install windows with internet connection windows automatically install all OEM drivers right after the first boot up.

My question is: Is it fine to just download and install laptop manufacturer drivers on top of OEM drivers installed by windows? Or should I install windows offline and right after the first boot up install manufacturer drivers from USB and then connect to the internet?

You can always download drivers from the manufacturer's websiteand install them over the Windows drivers. However, if the driversin Windows are more recent, Windows will reinstall its own driverson the next boot, thus replacing the ones you just installed.

Also, it is possible that Drivers appear on the Manufacturer's website before being in the Manufacturer's Driver Update App and possibly before being in the Windows Update Catalogue. There is nothing you can do about this, so probably just wait for Windows to offer the update.

I don't know why your question has received so many down votes. Specifically when building workstations for creative applications like Premiere Pro or Avid Media Composer we are advised to NOT allow windows to install these devices automatically. We are always encouraged to do the above and install the manufacturer drivers instead.

Driver Booster will quickly spot broken and outdated drivers and finds the exact up-to-date match for the system and devices. The driver database supports more than 6.5 million devices & drivers from 1200+ major brands. Besides, driver sources are all officially from the original hardware manufacturers and have passed the Microsoft WHQL test and IObit test.

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I always keep it running while playing because of its "Game Boost" feature, which actually helps in performance, mainly so that your computer focuses its resources on the game you're playing. It's also useful for updating your drivers every few weeks, which you could do manually, but why would you?

At work, one of the tasks I am responsible for is resetting computers to their factory settings and installing the updated drivers. Lenovo makes this easy with their System Update tool, but Dell and other companies require you to install drivers manually.

Because I am doing this process on so many machines, I am trying to find a way to automate the process so all I have to do is stick a USB in the machine, start a batch file, and let it go. Basically, I need a batch file that installs a bunch of drivers in a folder (that I download individually and put together first) without me needing to press "Ok" and "Next" for every single driver. I've tried a few things, but the /s or -s doesn't seem to be working. Does anybody have a workaround or know how to do this?

Richard as has been mentioned already you need an imaging solution. The free ones are WDS/MDT from Microsoft. However, it's up to you to research how they work to make your life easier as well as making yourself marketable for future positions. Now if you can't do those or your company doesn't want to then you could script this with pnputil command. It's made specially for drivers but you need to make sure you extract the drivers from the setup file. Dell offers *.cab files for their workstation series like precision. Search "dell cab drivers" and you can get a list of the computers they have drivers for.

I realize this question is fairly old but to assist others in their conundrums with this matter here it is; Dell has actually allowed the downloads of Driver Cab files, these files include all of the drivers for a Dell laptop of a specific model (for example the Latitude E6410). With these Cabs you can extract them to a USB Drive then create a simple Bat file to auto install drivers to the Windows Driver Store. As mentioned before this is particularly most relevant for Dell computers, but using this method I created a Windows Image that can be cloned to multiple models of Dell machines saving the need for multiple images. Life in short you download the Cabs for the models you are running, extract them into a directory, keeping the folders for separate models separate. Now in the root of the directory you just made create a Bat file. Write the Bat file like so:

This Bat will look into ALL directories inside of it's current folder for ANY PnP drivers. So please BE CAREFUL where you run this file. Depending on the number of models you have this may take some time. We use about 3 or 4 different Dell models so it takes us about 10-15 minutes for the script to complete. On a side note: Dell has also stated that some Blu Tooth drivers will not be included within the Driver Cabs so this is not 100% guaranteed to have EVERY driver you may be looking for.

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