Hello guys

I still carn't get the hang of this "update drivers" thing.
People say update your driver's or check for driver updates

Last week.
I was following a brief guide on how to do this for my printer as there was a driver update for this, so i downloaded it and found out that i could not use the printer, i think it was saying something like shortcuts missing and it needed the INF file.

So i gave up and tryed to reinstall the printer, with no luck the same thing was happening, the only thing i could do was a SYSTEM restore, which i did set a restore point before i downloaded the drivers and that got me back to normal..

Was this because i had two lots of drivers on the COMPUTER in different places, i did not even know where these drivers where installed to.
I just thought it would update the old driver's to the new one's

these driver's where for a lexmark printer X1270 on a computer running XP.
I should not have botherd really because the printer works fine with the old driver's, but it would be nice to know what i was doing wrong in the FIRST place..

I should have followed the old saying " if it aint broke don't fix it "... Hi Carl. Bottom line, you should only update a driver if there is a specific need or REASON to do so. Newer does not necessarily mean better. And yeah, if it ain't broke..... Quote from: Allan on March 12, 2010, 05:45:23 AM

Hi Carl. Bottom line, you should only update a driver if there is a specific need or reason to do so. Newer does not necessarily mean better. And yeah, if it ain't broke.....