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Laptops All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies- P73: Okay, I’ll admit it: I’ve got a strange biography. I’ve been a writer all my life. My first semi-pro job was sports editor of my high school newspaper. (Go Commodores!) After college I was a political reporter for daily newspapers in Ohio and New York (I covered four national nominating conventions and two Presidential campaigns) and a correspondent for The Associated Press. And then, in 1983, I gave in to my inner geek and became the first Executive Editor of PC Magazine, back in the days when most people asked, “What is a PC?”. | 694 Driver Follow That Laptop Check for updates to specific devices Set the utility to automatically check for new versions of drivers To update drivers using Windows Update follow along 1. Choose Start Windows Update. 2. Click Check for Updates. This option is in the left pane. See Figure 1-3. 3. If updates are available click the driver you want to put in place. 4. Click Install. To set Windows to automatically check for recommended updates follow these steps 1. Open Windows Update. 2. Click Change Settings from the options in the left pane. 3. Choose Install Updates Automatically. This is the recommended option. You can instruct the system to install new updates every day at a particular time or select a specific day of the week. You might want to tell the system to do so every day during your lunch hour or at 4 30 on Friday afternoon when you anticipate not being at your desk. Sub-options here include Downloading updates but waiting for the user to choose whether to install them. Checking for updates but allowing the user to choose whether to download and install them. Never check for updates. This is the officially not-recommended suboption. This makes your machine more vulnerable to security problems and you may also miss all kinds of nifty improvements to the system. If you chose to update automatically go to Step 4. The recommended setting is Install Updates Automatically. 4. Choose a time to install any downloaded updates. Manually updating drivers The automatic process works well for most users and most equipment combinations. However some especially obscure pieces of hardware or obscure uses for that hardware may require you to seek out and install a device driver on your own you might also be told to do so by a technical support department. Driver Follow That Laptop 695 Figure 1-3 When Windows Update appears click View Available Updates to see if updated drivers for the devices in your machine are available. This is the Windows Vista Book X Chapter 1 .