The following is a review of Device Manager features that you can use to explore the available information so that you can configure the driver settings.

Sponsor: Lob APIs ensure your addresses are deliverable and everything you send arrives at the right place.The default Device Manager screen enables users to work directly in the Properties dialog box of a device and provides information about the device that the hardware and device driver provide. I did have to select each of these checkboxes and select Install at the end, but once they were done, I had no banged out (yellow exclamation point) devices in Device Manager. These are Chipset and Motherboard updates. Here's what it looks like when you have a bunch of updates pending. Here you'll see a bunch of Optional Updates. Here you can control things like your Windows Update active hours so it doesn't reboot when you don't want it, etc. Since a lot of stuff moved and was redesigned in Windows 11 I went looking for 'Windows Update Optional Updates' and it took me a while to find it, even though it's listed right there on Windows Update in Settings.Ĭlick on Advanced Options. I'd like to get that fixed, so I went to Windows Update but WU said everything was cool.

I used it for a few days and had no issues, but while poking around I noticed in the Device Manager that there were dozens of Base System Devices that were banged out. It was a solid install and everything worked out of the box.

I had a hard drive die recently so I decided to do a full fresh reinstall of Windows, this time a fresh Windows 11 from a downloaded ISO burned to a USB stick.

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