Windows 10: What is a good freeware Driver Updater utility for Windows 10 (x64)?

Hello

What is a good freeware (or freemium) Driver Updater utility for Windows 10 (x64)?

e.g. Are these sort of things safe, reliable and free from malware?
- Driver Booster
- Driver Genius
- DriverPack
- Snappy Driver Installer

Background
I have a 6-yearold Samsung Series 7 Ultra Notebook (NP740U3E-S04UK).
I have been having HUGE problems with brightness control and keyboard (e.g. Alt/F4 started to fail). See my other thread ( Why has my Laptop suddenly started running slow ).
After literally days and days battling with all this, I have worked out that if I don't update windows to beyone v1809 (KB4586793 - October 2018), then I can still control my laptop's screen brightness using Fn/F2 and FnF3. However it is also important to NOT apply the latest version of the driver for the AMD graphics card, or I will be locked out of the computer completely.

Samsung has been extremely unhelpful.
The free AMD update utility turns my laptop into a brick.

It is clear that Windows Update is not updating ALL the new drivers for my hardware, so it looks like I need a special utility to update them all. I am worried that if I don't update my Windows 10 to beyond v1808, that I may have other problems (e.g. the computer getting hacked, or applications like msOffice may not work correctly...)

Thanks

J

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Freeware for mankind!

POV Ray is another good 3D image and animation software.

http://www.povray.org/

This site list a good number of freeware and shareware graphics and photo editiors of which some have already been listed here in this thread.

http://www.freebyte.com/graphicprograms/

At guru you can get benchmarks, tweaks, and other utilities along with vid card drivers and mobo chipset drivers.

Guru3D.com

Good list so far. *Big Grin

 

Windows 7 x64 not detecting GTX295

Background
I installed the 295 and it was not detected. So I downloaded 181.22 for Vista x64, but those drivers didn't work for gaming (CTD). So I installed a GTX 8800 and it was detected and drivers installed automatically from Windows Update.

Now I put the 295 back in, and it installed and was able to run games. However, the nVidia control panel was not available, suggesting that the drivers hadn't installed properly... So I deleted the drivers and rebooted. And... again it lists my 295 as a "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" and a "3D Video Controler", but no drivers can be found by Windows Update.

Question
1) Is there anywhere I can download the Windows 7 x64 drivers and install them manually?

2) Any idea how I can get Windows 7 to recognize my GTX295 so that it can download the proper drivers.

3) Have you had the GTX295 install automatically in Windows 7 x64?

 

Unlocked Realtek HD Audio Drivers Windows 7 & 8 (With Dolby Digital Live and DTS Interactive)

DTS supported natively by Windows 8/8.1 and it should work on windows 10 too just DDL require to unlock your driver .