Drivers
We are still in the development of computing. I guess one day something smaller than a DVD will be stuck in your computer and everything will work first and every time.
In the early days you got your computer, a lot of manuals to read and a pile of disks.
You had to put the dusk in one after the other in a particular order and things got added into the computer at specific times in specific places. The first few discs could loosely be regarded as the operating system discs. Towards the end were discs adding things like…
_ the software specifically needed to get your keyboard, screen, printer etc. to work,
and
_ possibly some associated software specific to a particular manufactures circuitry / chip used in the computer.
If you changed or fiddled around with things in the computer, then you might have needed to install new software to match the new stuff.
The software associated with the last few things has loosely gone under the name of Drivers since then. In the meantime, software related to more imaginary type things has also been included in the generally used word of Drivers.
As time goes on, a few things are happening.
_ Some things arte getting made more standard so that different things can be run from the same software.
_ More and more of different things are becoming available, especially as external devices get cheaper but worse quality so they don't last long and a new one is sold to replace it
_ Storage space for software is getting easier and cheaper.
_ People supplying operating systems and computers sometimes have a large data bank including a lot of the most typical Drivers
The end result of all this is that often an awful lot of Drivers are included in what is ( typically now a single ) operating system disc.
If you are very lucky after a system re install, all things will work, either because the Driver software you had previously was included in the large data bank of Drivers in the re instillation disc, or an alternative Driver works just as well.
More often than not, a few things won't work properly because no Driver Software got installed that worked. Appropriate software may or may not have been on the instillation disc. The processes to check and install such software may or may not be successful because the different systems make it difficult to write a software that will work in all systems.
In almost all case, basic things like keyboard , an internet browser, and specific software that Microsoft include as "free" in their windows will be there. Also a monitor will usually work, but might not be perfect, since different graphic options / different graphic software and manufacture specific circuitry has become one of the most varied and is still has a lot of development going on.
In any case, at the end of the day, before considering a system re install you might want to consider doing some preparation regarding Drivers,… You might want to do some sort of Driver back up
Driver back upI think broadly there are three ways of doing this, the second two I mention are similar and involve truly backing up , whereas thee first I mention is not strictly speaking backing up , but I think is quite a good idea in addition to doing one or more of the others
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