Help with drivers!

[Flux Azreal]

So I've got a new laptop today (Acer Spin 3) I got it for like 400$ on Target I did all the sign in Windows default setup thing, everything went flawless, the trackpad worked same with keyboard and everything. But I saw there was a lot of bloat and I didn't want to uninstall everything I went on my main pc and downloaded the Windows11 ISO and installed Rufus, I made a Windows11 bootable installer thingy and the first thing I noticed was once I booted up to the USB I couldn't move my mouse via trackpad, the trackpad didn't work at all. I hooked up a mouse and got through everything else with it, I did run into a disk driver issue but I sorted it out (Had to download some intel disk driver thing since it was an intel 12 cpu) and I was finally able to get to the fresh windows startup screen, I was still unable to move my cursor via trackpad and the touch screen didn't work. I had to rely on my mouse again and this time when it came to the internet part to get internet access the wigi didn't work, it didn't display any SSID, even once I got through the set up touchscreen nor trackpad worked, and I had no wifi, I had to manually download them using a different pc and pass them via usb, and then install like 20 drivers while window's update kept erroring out with updates and such. It took me like 2h to finish everything, mainly cuz window's update is slow and dumb, and once I installed a driver another one has a possibility of breaking (like once I installed realtek drivers for audio the DTS driver/program broke and had to reinstall DTS) so I'm wondering if there is any way to do this more efficienctly? Like can I have a 1-click solution, or maybe set things up in a way I could use my trackpad while in the windows11 installer or in the windows11 set up? Or can I somehow pre-load them into the new windows 11 usb installer? What would you do?

 

I'm just confused how Acer was to put drivers in Windows 11 without ever touching the desktop.

[TylerD321]

https://www.acer.com/us-en/support/drivers-and-manuals

 

Acer probably has a driver utility on this page as many other manufactures do. My general method of setting up a machine from a fresh windows install is to only install the wireless driver in order to let it connect to wifi. From there I will run all windows updates. Once that is finished I run the driver update utility and install all of the drivers. I would not recommend trying to do them at the same time.

 

A driver utility is pretty much a "one click solution" as you have described. I don't have much experience with Acer products. However, for Dell consumer products theirs is called support assist, dell enterprise is dell command update, and asus is armory crate from what I have seen.

Edited November 30, 2022 by TylerD321
Added clarification on driver utilities

[Flux Azreal]

Just now, TylerD321 said:

https://www.acer.com/us-en/support/drivers-and-manuals

 

Acer probably has a driver utility on this page as many other manufactures do. My general method of setting up a machine from a fresh windows install is to only install the wireless driver in order to let it connect to wifi. From there I will run all windows updates. Once that is finished I run the driver update utility and install all of the drivers. I would not recommend trying to do them at the same time.

Thank you for your reply! That's around what I do aswell, I wait for windows to finish doing it's updating thing so it doesn't break anything, or install a dated driver after I installed a new one. And sadly I don't think acer has any tools like that, they only seem to have some little Acer Care program to check the health of your system. But I'll look more into it!

[TylerD321]

You could try following this video.

 

 

[Flux Azreal]

2 minutes ago, TylerD321 said:

You could try following this video.

 

 

Oh how interesting! I was looking at a different video but it was too techy with so many commands and stuff, this one seems to be far more useful, thank you!