Yes, some kind of meet in the middle solution would be nice. For example, Microsoft's official updater keeping the drivers up to date. And by up to date I mean

Yes, some kind of meet in the middle solution would be nice. For example, Microsoft's official updater keeping the drivers up to date. And by up to date I mean the latest from the GPU vendor and not something a bit older but certified by MS. Getting rid of 3rd party installers and updaters should be a priority of Microsoft's anyway. > if there are security holes in GPU driver installations, I'd bet eliminating all the crapware would do a lot more for security than any number of updates could ever do. The "crapware" is just some unprivileged user space processes. The driver has kernel mode components, and security issues there could cause crashes, snooping memory of other processes or even kernel space remote code execution. Not that I'm defending bundled (or optional) crapware, but I don't think that's a security problem.