Bringing up to date an old notebook laptop

emerald21

Hi I ve found an old note book probably about 7 years old with windows xp on it. It says a lot of the drivers are out of date . Is there a way of me finding out which they are and then updating them for free please.

GunJack

what exactly is telling you the drivers are out-of-date?

esuhl

GunJack wrote: »

what exactly is telling you the drivers are out-of-date?

Good question -- are you sure it's not some malware prompting you to install more junk, OP?

Anyway, the latest drivers are usually available to download from the support section of the manufacturer's website.

Gyro

Try running the free PSI - (Personal Software Inspector).

It's a reputable program and it will update a lot of the software on the computor by itself, though it will inform you of anything it can't update automatically - so you can update it yourself manually.

https://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/

p.s. It's also based in Denmark, so hopefully there's less chance of any NSA dodginess.

paddyrg

Frankly a 7 year old lappy it may be better to wipe and install a basic Linux build. XP drops permanently out of support in 3 months time

emerald21

GunJack wrote: »

what exactly is telling you the drivers are out-of-date?

I was burning a cd and something came up then saying about the sound. So I clicked on it and the next think I knew it was prompting me to pay for downloading the drivers . Apparently there 10 out of date ones.
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emerald21

paddyrg wrote: »

Frankly a 7 year old lappy it may be better to wipe and install a basic Linux build. XP drops permanently out of support in 3 months time

How would I do that please.

NiftyDigits

emerald21 wrote: »

I was burning a cd and something came up then saying about the sound. So I clicked on it and the next think I knew it was prompting me to pay for downloading the drivers . Apparently there 10 out of date ones.
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Brand name and full model number?

closed

drivers are free, and if it's working they don't need updating.

more important is what exactly you are looking at to get this message, an advert in a browser or what?

emerald21

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Brand name and full model number?

It was delivered to me and I bought it years ago when I was first starting out. The booklet says Fortune. Technology ltd. on the lid it just says NOTEBOOK .On the back it says Notebook. Computer. model M35W, product code M375S, serial number NKM375S05101531.

I wouldn t mind just restoring it to factory settings but it's not f8.
Thanks.

emerald21

closed wrote: »

drivers are free, and if it's working they don't need updating.

more important is what exactly you are looking at to get this message, an advert in a browser or what?

I don't know I can t remember lol