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Actually this is pretty common, especially for laptops. I had the officially supported Windows, installed all drivers from manufacturer, even looked for device manufacturers and device manager still failed to recognize some devices. Driver easy even found some CPU drivers for my laptop. I have seen laptops support webpages, which did not offer a single driver stating, they are included within Windows.
In point of fact, the Windows Update MiniTool (WUMT) does as good a job, or better, of any of the commercial, for-a-fee driver updaters I've tried and reviewed in print. I've had good results in the past using e-Support's DriverAgent (~$30 a year) and also Slimware Utilities' Driver Update (ditto on price). But WUMT is truly, really free and includes no "get more with paid purchase" capability at all. Thus, interested parties have nothing to lose in trying it out. I recommend the download link at MajorGeeks.com.
HTH,
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Easy as my AV flagged it and it even blocked me from going to the page so I did not actually download it tried but the AV Nod32 stopped it.
Except last time when I stupidly turned PUP off to download that malware crap from Russia claiming driver updates that I found from Google of all places. That was when I had to reinstall windows from scratch by formatting the SSD and reinstalling W10 which was good because it runs better than before.
Indeed, when you are looking for drivers in general, search engines will mostly not display malware results. But if you search for a specific ID or an older driver by the name, there are many webpages, which offer the latest driver, except it is fake and it is always bundled with something nasty. I have seen a few of those too. There are fakes for everything, there is even fake Windows Defender, which looks almost identical. :)
BTW it was this. Warning anywhere here to never install it even though UAC showed it verified by MS.
https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topi...-driverupdate/