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Drivers Repository for Win 7

Hi ...
Does anyone know Is there a good source of repository to find device drivers for Windows 7 OS.

Thank you for your help.
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They are unique by device and driver application. There are thousands (and more thousands) of these. So there is no one place where you can get devices and drivers for all machine types and operating system. I get these from manufacturer sites.
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Thank you John For your Quick Prompts.

What I am looking for is avoiding going to every manufacture site.
Is there a free software or utlity that is able to do this. Scan the PC and install the drivers.
Thank you for your time.
I have not seen any freeware site that holds all the drivers. We keep a driver file on our machines / servers for all the machines we use so we have drivers available. I will keep watching, but I have not seen such a site.
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Hello NetRock6,

While I cannot recommend any one piece of software that does that (the systems I work on don't allow that sort of software, so I go to the manufacturer sites, like Mr. Hurst does), a quick google search of "driver scan" produces several thousand options.
There may be some junkware and malware sites that say they provide drivers. Also some tools which actually are malware say they can get your drivers. But that is all crap and something to avoid. It is very easy to get the drivers directly from the manufacturers and those also are safe. I can't see any good reason for not downloading them directly from the manufacturer.
my philosophy on drivers is don't update them (same with bios updates) unless the current one is broken or you need the added functionality provided by the update.. IOW, don't fix something that isn't broken
My opinion is to update drivers when possible. It is an easy update, and drivers can have security issues which can help compromising your system, and updates often fix those security holes. The Driver may look as if it were working...
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If the systems are DEL use DEL homepage for drivers for the devices and motherboard
 if HP use HP homepage for drivers
Asus and so on
If the mobo is Intel it has tool called Intel  driver Update Utility that is on the mainboard CD
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html
Nvidia Geforce Experience, runs as a tool and notifies you hen there is an update for video and audio
http://www.nvidia.in/object/geforce-experience-download-in.html
i would avoid such softwares; they tend to find more drivers that need updating, than in reality, and often damage your system even
what i do is during the install of a system, i make a drivers folder, with all needed drivers
so in case i need to reinstall, i just have to copy this folder to an external media
I think the manufacturer's supplied testing software for their machines is best. The holy grail of a single repository for all the machines you have does not exist yet. I understand why you would want it but it is is not a reality.
unless you use a sledgehammer to test it
Thanks for your input guys - really helpful advice.
DriverPacks helped me to finish the project to find the missing  device drivers as one point resource.