Microsoft Windows automatically searches for drivers online using Windows Update service every-time a new hardware gets connected, while this can be an excellent solution to get drivers for many hardware's; this also adds a long, unnecessary wait when the best drivers are already available in current installation for popular devices like Apple and Android mobile phones.

While we can easily turn-off Windows Update driver search entirely (by navigating to System Properties->Hardware tab->Windows Update Driver Settings->Never check for drivers), Here is a little handy trick to skip Windows driver search instantly for devices you are sure are available locally saving time at the time of driver searching.

RadarSync and DriverMax are two well-known free device driver updater utilities - while both of them do a decent job keeping your device drivers updated RadarSync has issues with proper device detection and DriverMax being accurate is not much user friendly requiring compulsory user-registration.

Now to make things simpler a new free device driver updater utility Device Doctor for Windows 7, XP and Vista is here allowing fast and easy driver updates.