how do i check for driver updates?
Depends on who made the computer. HP has a program (that may or may not be available in Windows 10). Dell has a support site, as do most of the major manufacturers. Just go to their website and usually click on support and it will eventually lead you to the driver updates. If you have a home made or other non-major computer you may have to check the device driver section of Windows and go to each manufacturer's site (a la nVidia in my case) and look for updates. Most will ask to scan your system to find your hardware for available updates. For motherboards this may involve updating the BIOS, play close attention to the instructions given in this case. In some cases Windows will not identify the manufacturer of a device but instead just list the generic driver. That is a whole different issue as it will involve opening the PC case and finding out what parts you have.
Then you need to go to device drivers and see if you can roll back to a previous driver as a last resort. That is if you know which piece of hardware is causing the problem, my experience has been either a video or sound card driver. One thing I have had good luck with though on Windows 7 was just booting into safe mode as it seemed to resolve some driver issues. To do this in Windows 10 though will require a Windows recovery disk or changing the boot options in Windows 10 to force a restart into safe mode. If nothing else do a system restore back to the previous updates and see what happens (Windows will always make a restore point for this).
