Is Intel's Graphics Driver safe?

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Hello, Here is a screen shot of an available update for Intel Graphics Driver. Are these safe to download in lieu of the recent flaws Intel is having with it's chips? I am hesitate to download this until I know for sure. I believe I have already updated this driver once since owning this laptop not knowing of the recent news. The recent news talks of Intel main chip processors possibly being flawed so not sure where Intel's graphics driver update might fall within this news. Thanks for all your great help here! 🙂

[Riddle_Decipher · Accepted solution]

@rocpapershotgum

Thank you for posting on HP Forums, 

Riddle_Decipher is at your service. 

As I understand you need information on updating the Intel drivers,

Don't worry as I'll be glad to help, however, to provide an accurate resolution, I need a few more details: 

Have you personally had any issues or errors while attempting to download the updates for Intel devices?

While you respond to that, here's what you need to know:

A driver is software written for a specific operating system (OS). The OS uses the driver to communicate with a specific hardware device. Intel develops graphics drivers so that Windows* operating systems can communicate with specific Intel® graphics devices.

Intel has generic versions of the Intel® Graphics Drivers available but recommends using drivers from your computer manufacturer. The computer manufacturer can offer customized versions of the Intel Graphics Drivers for your particular computer model.

That said, if there are any specific issues with the updates offered at the HP Support Assistant, you will be notified prior to download as we wouldn't want you to go through any issues, if some issues occur accidentally, you can always rollback the driver using the device manager.

Although, I personally don't update my drivers unless there are any issues on my computer that requires a fix as that's one of the main purposes of updating the drivers.

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