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Old 11-20-2009   #1
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I use Drivermax to download drivers.Most of the time i see Drivers which i need are not digitally signed.Rarely i see a driver which i need signed by microsoft.But the company is Intel only.

Is it good to download a driver which is not digitally signed by microsoft ?

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Digitally signed by Microsoft means they are far less likely to mess your system up.
What is also true, though, is that a few (quite a few according to some) signed drivers lack features found on the un-signed that are occasionaly published by the manufacturer of a device.

One VERY prominent such issue is the Bluetooth drivers for USB Dongles in Windows 7.
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