A little sad about CCleaner. It was one of those things where reversers and DFIR people were screaming not to use it and getting mocked.
On modern Windows there is no legitimate reason to manually install vendor-provided drivers. OS installs the legit ones automatically.
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Does the W10-installed version of nVidia's driver include GeForce Experience? Without it, lots of missing functionality; with it, node.js.
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This kind of thing (bundled junkware) is exactly why I said you shouldn't be installing hardware-vendor-provided drivers. See also: HP.
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One man's bundled junkware is another's valuable functionality that they paid good money for.
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But, perhaps, we should all be using Lemote Yeeloong MIPS laptops, like rms, running open source BIOS & GNU Linux-libre (with no bin blobs)
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Forgot ideological purity, it's just about cost/benefit. You get huge privacy/security/stability gains from not installing sketchy drivers.
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In old times it was hard to do that on Windows, but modern Windows works out of the box with vanilla MS install, no sketchy add-ons.
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I've not used W10 in anger, but previous versions usually end up with a few stragglers IME.
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Also, I wonder how well W10 driver catalog will keep up with new hardware as it ages. I know W10 supposed to be "last version", but...
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Use of outdated OS versions in a non-isolated/non-personal-use-only environment is a huge infosec problem in itself...
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Actually, come to think of it, Wacom Volito tablet unsupported on W10 without driver kit from Wacom.
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Yes, it's an old piece of hardware, but if it still works, then it's a hard sell to say "buy new doohicky because W10 includes drivers OOTB"
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"Buy new tablet because your PC will be unstable with this old one that needs to inject random crappy code into ring 0".
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But don't drivers in W10's catalog come from "incompetent" manufacturers, so same "random crappy code" passed through WHQL?
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Pretty sure WHQL limits the scope of what they can do, like add-on apps or poking at kernel internals in some of the worst ways.
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Also device drivers should not have intimate access. They should run with less privs than user processes.
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With nothing but the driven device's mmio mapped in memory, & iommu limiting access reciprocally from the hardware side.
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