Glasgow, Scotland -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/17/2011 -- Recently, a new phenomenon for a new method of updating your computers drivers has arrived, and it could make life updating drivers a lot easier. There has been a surge of driver update software's on the internet in the recent times, and they are now becoming more and more popular with end users. Updating drivers the traditional way to searching the internet, and installing a driver manually appears to be long, long ago.

The whole point of a driver update software is that it updates the drivers on your computer almost automatically, and with minimum effort. They use a bank of drivers, and if your computer has a previous version of one of the drivers in this bank, then it will be updated. This saves a very large amount of time, and results in the user spending possibly only a few minutes updating drivers whereas they could have been spending hours search and installing these drivers manually!

However, even with all these new pieces of technology for automatic driver updating, many still argue that manual driver updating is still the best way to update a computers drivers. They argue that, driver update software are mostly slow at receiving driver updates, and even though the software may tell you your computer is up-to-date, your computer may not be. As you can imagine, if this is true, then users would be falsely informed of their computer being up-to-date by the driver update software. Furthermore, with the large amount of driver updating software being created, and offered to the public, finding the best driver update software is also becoming a very difficult task.

Either way though, driver updating software's have been proven to save possibly hours of time, and be very beneficial – especially for those who have very little knowledge of computers, and wouldn’t know where to start if they had to update drivers manually. Driver update software may also be very beneficial for those more hardcore computer users who have a larger number of drivers on their computer, and updating them manually could take hours.