Opinions on Snappy Driver Installer Please

idgat said:

That's the one

(The story goes, as I heard it, the ORIGIN version was just called Snappy Driver Installer. Because it was free and in the public domian, a couple of (semi?) commercial distributors got hold of it, tweaked it (apparently unsuccessfully) and at one stage (whether still ...?) added some adware to the download. The "new" versions caused a few problems. To protect its originality and identify it, the original distributor renamed it SDIO).

Ahh, that makes sense!

Many thanks,

Art

ClippyBeer said:

I have used Snappy Driver Installer (from Snappy Driver Installer - Install and Update Drivers for Free) and can confirm it is safe to use. That said, the only time you should ever use it is to find drivers not available from your PC vendor's website. You don't need to update your system drivers EVER unless you are having problems and the new drivers has fixes.

The last time I used Snappy was an old Gateway laptop that came with Vista Home Premium x64. I wanted to put XP on this laptop but Gateway only had drivers for Vista/7 for this model. I found the video/HDMI driver from AMD (HD3200) but the other drivers were all installed by Snappy (Wifi, Conexant 56k modem, Conexant audio, ethernet etc.).

The main thing I like about Snappy is the source code is available so you can modify and compile your own version which as was mentioned, some unscrupulous sources have done.

Development

Thanks Clippy.

Art