For along time before the Internet came along you could have lost you software drivers disk and you were lost with an unusable computer peripheral or if you were really unlucky, more than one.

These day’s your computer don’t have to be a computer that starts up, runs, edits video’s or whatever you wish to do with it and all the help of the internet or as some people call it, the World Wide Web.

1st Option

If you don’t have the Internet, then get a family member or a friend to go online and do a search on Google, for example, I have a printer “Epson Stylus c86″ that my Father give to me but he never gave me the software driver disk, now I can go along to Google and type in “Epson Stylus c86 Printer drivers” and I’ll be taken to the search page where near the top of the listings, if not at the top, will be the Epson website, http://www.epson.co.uk, I would then look at their support pages for the relevant driver for my particular printer.

2nd Option

I really like this option, as it houses a lot of software drivers in the one place.

I became a member of this particular website because I was looking for a driver for something like my Father’s scanner, I had done the 1st Option as mentioned above for the this specific driver, but it turned out to be a very hard one to track down, so I went to Google and typed in “drivers” and I think the first link it give me was to a website call “Drivers Guide” at http://www.driverguide.com, that website has been the best website I’ve ever used and I still use it quiet a lot today.

Hugh Fraser
http://www.millcomputing.ukpc.net