Drivers

[bentaxle]

I'm in a muddle again my pc shut down and started up on its own ,M/s tells me it was a blue screen crash and it could have been caused by one of 5 things the first was Drivers ,so I down loaded DRIVER DETECTIVE and it tells me i've got 22 out dated drivers .one with no driver and 12 system drivers ,,now before I press any more keys is this Detective Driver thing genuine and why do they always want you to register and give your name and email address ,if its free why not just do the job

[ACtheTROLL]

have you had the bsod before?

if not - just leave it alone

which O/s what machine ....

[bentaxle]

Hello Ac , no I haven't had it before ,but I bought a toshiba ext hard drive a couple of months ago it is plug and play ,but it slowed my pc down when powering up,4 min with and 1min without so I leave the usb connected but s/w the power off ,then power it up when the pc is on line when I want to use it,Should I then forget about all those drivers is it a case of let sleeping dogs lay

all the best

[bentaxle]

ps
forgot to say its xp and the pc is one put together by the local comp shop