HP Updates!?

dipsy81

I have a blue and white box pop up on my laptop every now and then and it says "HP Updates". What is HP and do I really need to download the System check for Notebook Pc's?

-TangleFoot-

Hewlett Packard? :rolleyes:

davb

I assume you have a Hewlett Packard PC or Laptop (or possibly printer).
If so it is HP's automatic updates system for providing you with driver updates for your particular hardware.

They can possibly be useful, especially if they have found a bug in the existing driver. You can usually progress further where it does a scan and tells you what is available (and why).

penrhyn

In answer to the question what is HP.



Only joking, or am I?

I've got a Hewlett Packard printer and get updates from time to time.

dipsy81

Oh yes, forgot about the sauce lol. :rotfl:

No i haven't got a Hewlett Packard pc. It says Compaq on my laptop.

davb

Yes, but HP (not the sauce) own Compaq

eyeinthesky

I have a HP desktop, and my wife's laptop is HP, so we get this update window from time to time. Mostly I just cancel it, but occasionally let it run, and it sometimes finds updated drivers for graphic cards etc. More often it says no updates available.

dipsy81

So do you think I should run it? Listening to what you say about Compaq and HP, sounds as if it won't hurt!

Money_Grabber13579

No it won't hurt to install the updates at all. Go ahead and run it!