NoelC Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) Today I'm greeted by the need to put in two Windows 8.1 x64 updates. One, KB3035034, is a security update for Adobe Flash Player, and on the general principle that more security is better and at least a few good programmers work at Adobe I've gone ahead and put KB3035034 in as it does have documentation: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3035034 No reboot was required for KB3035034, thankfully, so my system remains operational from its boot after January Update Tuesday. The second update that appeared today, labeled Optional, is a WD SES Device update, presumably because Western Digital has released a new version - though I don't know why; my USB MyBook backup drives have always worked perfectly on the old driver developed in the time of Windows 7. I clicked the More information link to try to find out why a new driver has been released. Zzzzt. No information online: A Google search didn't turn up much of anything either. The spirit of my Pop whispered to me, "if it works, don't fix it", and so I shall wait for more information before making a decision on whether to install it. After all, it is the time of Windows 10 previews... Microsoft has NO business incentive to deliver updates to Windows 8.1 of the excellent caliber they have in the past. -Noel Edited January 28, 2015 by NoelC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Blah, who in their right mind would download drivers from Windows Update? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 there was never a documentation for driver updates on Windows Update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osRe Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) Blah, who in their right mind would download drivers from Windows Update? I do! Did it once. I downloaded, manually from the MS Update Catalog, a driver for the Intel MEI, which is a part of Intel's AMT, which is a strange Intel something that doesn't do anything useful, and as far as I could tell, specifically on the laptop I needed it for, it does absolutely nothing at all. The normal Intel drivers for it are large and add a lot of junk. The driver on MS's site is 50K and it also removes the exclamation point icon from Device Manager. Edited January 28, 2015 by shae Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelC Posted January 29, 2015 Author Share Posted January 29, 2015 there was never a documentation for driver updates on Windows Update. Doesn't make it acceptable. -Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 I agree. A simple placeholder should at least be used... something with a generic message like "see the manufacturer for driver information" rather than returning an error page. @shae installing IME drivers really just make the flag go away. It is some sort of Enterprise management thing. On my personal systems, I just leave the device flagged since I don't use that platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osRe Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 The first time I encountered it I spent time trying to understand what this Intel thing is. My conclusion was that it's a VNC-like remote control including BIOS screens and power on/off control. Maybe also remote wiping. But it also requires BIOS support, which isn't present here as far as I can tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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