Is it possible to download minimal drivers on Windows, without the extra software packages?

Posted by Anton Gogolev on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Anton Gogolev
Published on 2010-02-02T09:02:07Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 8:01 UTC
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The situation in all its glory:

30 megs for ATIs' "Display Driver Only".
Almost 100 megs for NVidias' GeForce/Ion bloatware.
300 megs for an HP printer driver with immense amount of crap
30 megs for a Realtek integrated sound card driver.
50 megs for a mouse driver
...and dozens and dozens of other similar examples

Additinally, UI/UX on vendors' sites is really terrible: I have to carefully pick and choose the exact model of my whatever, although this packages do contain drivers for pretty much every possible hardware model out there.

My question is: How and where can I download true minimal drivers without all these ATI "Installation Managers", Realtek GUIs, ASUS tools, etc.?

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