Fresh Start and Getting Drivers for Win7

I bought an HP desktop a few months ago. It is pretty good, but filled with bloatware. So I formatted the C drive, installed Win7, and started clean.

I have only installed a few drivers for my system from:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...3&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=5261651
and relied on Windows Update to do the heavy lifting.

I got put off becuase at that HP link, there are over 20 drivers/software installs, and that seems ridiculous. I just installed the LAN driver and Graphics card driver, and then let Windows sort it out. If I noticed a "!" in Device Manager, I sought out that specific driver from the link, but this happened only twice.

Is this a good policy or am I likely missing some stuff I need, but just not aware of it?

Thanks,
Matt72

 

Window Vista and 7 are very good at installing device drivers IMHO.

I have a Dell Precision M70 that originally came with XP Pro. I've installed Vista Ultimate and the only device driver I had to "manually" install was for my Sigmatel C Major audio and my XP driver for it works fine. Vista even downloaded and installed the required drivers and software for my Lexmark Inkjet and HP Laserjet printers.

 

Cool, sounds like you think my approach is sound. Thanks!

 

Hi my friend , welcome to MG's :major

Is there any ? in Device Manager ( Start - Run devmgmt.msc - ok ) ? :wave