No appology was needed. People make mistakes all the time and Lord
help me as I surely make my fair share of them.

There are various programs that are used to keep the drivers to your computer up to date. I personally do not use them at all. The reason being is that through years of installing software for the need to do this and to do that and all the bloat that comes with it I found that it is much easier to just go to the manufacturer's website and download the drivers as needed. They are perfectly safe there and are more prone to be first quality drivers than from Microsoft or other third party vendors as they have a tendency to update more slowly than what is recorded in the sales pitch.

Some are great and do as they say. Others not so much so. Then there is the constant transferring of data that is sent back and forth to these companies when they start searching for updates every time you boot your computer. They say that the only data collected is not personal identifiable but in truth that is their description and no one actually knows what it is that they collect as that is classified as proprietary information and can not be divulged.

In my opinion ...save your money as drivers need to be updated only if they somehow get corrupted by malware/viruses or just a plain computer glitch. What I recommend is that you do keep an updated file of your drivers that are installed on your computer. Only hardware drivers though. To do this :
1)create a file on your desktop and name it drivers for so and so computer
2)Now go to the manufacturer's website and under support > downloads or drivers > your model of computer.....there will be a list of all the drivers installed on that computer.
3)download the files to your driver folder....one at a time.
4)when completed burn the folder to cd and store it in a safe place....then move the desktop file to your documents folder.

As I stated these are hardware drivers and I do not store software drivers and see no need to even try....which most of the driver saver programs try to do!

For software applications and all that a person either has a CD with the software on it or they download it from the internet. If they download it from the internet then it will come in a self extracting set up file that you click on to start the installation. I just creat another folder called downloaded programs and store the install package in there. One main reason I do this is because from time to time there will be a great program or application that come out and the next version may have had (legal) changes such as DRM and other tracing applications or toolbars that are not needed or wanted forced to be installed as well. The older version will work just fine and can be reinstalled over and over!.

My two cents comes to this....the more stuff you install to monitor or search or change your system...the more problems you will be having as each vendor believes that it is their right to force auto start and auto call home and auto report....plus have certain types of adds and the likes....all of which is un-needed bloat