Sunday, October 5, 2008
Those Crazy Video Driver Updates
Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Talk" @ 01:00 PM
You know, video drivers are funny things. They're incredibly important to the stability and speed of our computers, yet do this day neither ATI nor NVIDIA use Windows Update to alert me as a user that there's a driver update (with some rare exceptions on the NVIDIA site of things). Since the NVIDIA and ATI drivers come with rich control panel interfaces, with modules that tend to run at start-up, you'd think they'd have built-in update checkers. They don't, which I've always wondered about - it's a hassle to have to remember to check two Web sites for new video drivers every month. Then there's the whole installation procedure: the screen shot below shows the second of my gripes with video driver updates.
The problem? I run two monitors on my main workstation at 1920 x 1200 resolution. On the left monitor, I tend to have a bunch of icons - I use my desktop as my workbench, and like any good workbench, there are certain places that you put things. I have a folder called "Workspace" in the lower-left corner of every computer that I use, and I use FolderShare to keep the contents of that folder in sync across all my computers. I have shortcuts to folders inside the Workspace folder for things like "Active Articles", "Photos for Processing", and a few others. And because I have so much desktop space, I tend to group files for active projects together. Read more...
