For most people the answer is no. That is an odd thing to read on the site of a program that installs drivers, so here is the reasoning, and the cases where the answer flips.
Run any driver updater and it will find between twenty and sixty problems. It is worth understanding how that number is produced, because it is the same on a machine that works perfectly.
The trick is the word outdated. A newer version existing somewhere is not a defect. A chipset driver from 2019 for a chipset from 2019 is the version that was tested with that hardware, and shipping it a newer number changes nothing about how the machine runs. Counting every such driver as a problem is what turns a working PC into a scan with sixty red rows.
There are a handful of real cases, and they have one thing in common: you can name the symptom before you start.
Outside these cases, the correct action for a driver that works is to leave it alone.
Windows already knows everything a driver updater would tell you, and it will tell you for free. Device Manager sorted by device shows every yellow mark in one screen — that is the real list of problems.
For an inventory with dates, one command prints every signed driver with its version, its date and its provider. Sort it by date and you will see immediately whether anything is genuinely ancient, and in a class where that matters.
It shows the same inventory, and it never uses the word outdated. A driver is flagged as worth a look only if it is both more than four years old and in one of the classes that genuinely keeps getting fixes — graphics, network, audio, storage, USB, Bluetooth. Everything else is listed as information, not as a problem to be solved.
The updates themselves come from Microsoft's catalogue, so there are no driver files hosted here at all, and installing one is gated behind a restore point and a DriverStore backup. The point of the screen is to answer a question, not to generate a number.
Last updated: 2026-08-28
Almost certainly not. Slowness is usually a full disk, too many startup programs, failing storage or not enough memory. Driver updates fix specific broken behaviour, not general slowness.
Not if the driver is signed, comes from Microsoft or the manufacturer, and you made a restore point first. It is dangerous when it comes from a driver pack, because nothing there tells you what you installed.
Leave them. The best outcome of updating a working driver is that nothing changes, and that is not the only possible outcome.
The safe order — Windows Update, then the manufacturer, never a driver pack.
Category by category — what you get back, and what you quietly give up.
What “free” should mean, and how to check a cleaner before installing it.
Free, no account, no subscription. Windows 10 and 11.