Importance Of Device Drivers And Their Updates

Device drivers work as the technological inter-agents between a computer and its devices. The main work done they do is help your operating system recognize the hardware installed on your PC. These are as important as the DNA present in our bodies without which you can’t get essential genetic instruction that works behind all your bodily developments and functioning. So are these for your PC, essential set of instructions without which the devices can’t function.

Have you ever imagined how is it possible to get songs added or deleted from your iPod, photos and videos transferred to the PC from your digital camera, or how your printer print pages for you, or how you get things scanned using your scanner? Each of the hardware you use requires a driver for better functioning. So, it is totally impossible to think that your PC will work without device drivers.

All the external components like mice or the keyboards also require device drivers to work properly. Interestingly, sometimes the drivers are internally built in the operating system of a PC or a laptop. But in many cases, you don’t get them inbuilt and need to get them from the store or downloaded from the internet and installed in your PC or laptop.

Both types of device drivers the inbuilt one as well as externally downloaded and installed one requires you to update them time to time for their proper functioning. Devices come up in their new versions every next day. It is not at all possible for your operating system to be compatible with each of the latest versions of the devices. Manufacturing companies keep introducing new versions of the devices either because the older versions become outdated or develop some glitches, thus to overcome such problems, new versions keep coming. They do solve the one problem but other problem arises i.e. compatibility problem.

In order to overcome the compatibility problem you need to update the drivers time to time. Sometimes, viruses, malware, spywares, corrupt the drivers which then stop working properly and you require an update for the proper working of the device drivers.