Device drivers have a clear use tho; Without them your device doesn't work. CCleaner was cargo cult homeopathy on its best days.
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On modern Windows there is no legitimate reason to manually install vendor-provided drivers. OS installs the legit ones automatically.
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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Use of outdated OS versions in a non-isolated/non-personal-use-only environment is a huge infosec problem in itself...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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Not perfect but walled gardens do help against this kind of thing, & for very-high-priv code it's important.
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There are very strict restrictions for what a driver can do to get signed in Windows, and they keep getting stricter.
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