Driver Detective seems to be a 'partner' of Microsoft. Anyone can verify this as fact? And is this a reliable site?

Became 'nervous in the service' when I opened similar sites.  Of course, they offer to clean your PC problems; but they also - almost immediately - try to sell you something!  I'd appreciate a few 'war stories' on experince (s) with JJ.

Anyone can be a Microsoft Partner, you can register your cat if you want... If you have a cat.  "Most Microsoft Partners are good ethical companies or individuals but any who can can all themselves as being a Microsoft Partner and in no way can depend on you as a consumer as proof of the legitimacy or competence of the ' touter '.

As far as I am concerned the better most of these types of tools have very limited use, and at worst, they are perfectly useless borderline scams, I certainly wouldn't pay for any of them and I'd be suspicious of some or most of them.

You're having problems with your computer?  What makes you think that you need to update your drivers?  Drivers rarely need to update, as a rule that you usually just update drivers to resolve specific problems, when it comes to the pilot the motto "if it ain't broke don't fix it' is a good one to follow.

As long as these utilities that come with claims that they will be 'clean', tune and speed up your computer just stay away from them, most of them is that powder useless Perlimpinpin or outright scams and mostly they cause more harm that good, not just this kind of garbage on your computer.

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