+John Teacake MVC Posted April 18, 2014 MVC Share Posted April 18, 2014 Has anyone ever had any experience with Driver Genius? This sounds like a godsend if it works. I am more than happy to pay the (All be it very small) licence fee for this. It helps the developers, It helps me! http://www.driver-soft.com/ I am just curious if people have used this before and is it any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romero Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Might just be me, but I don't know why people blindly trust and use such tools. Personally I keep the current and last couple of sets of driver updates for my hardware on an external drive and if I ever need to install the OS afresh (instead of just restoring from a recent image) it's easy enough to go through the driver folder and install each in turn. Hardly takes any time at all and much safer compared to some of these programs that I've seen messing up a system quite badly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted April 18, 2014 Author MVC Share Posted April 18, 2014 Might just be me, but I don't know why people blindly trust and use such tools. Personally I keep the current and last couple of sets of driver updates for my hardware on an external drive and if I ever need to install the OS afresh (instead of just restoring from a recent image) it's easy enough to go through the driver folder and install each in turn. Well yeah!! BUT someone saw a need to automate this and well done thats why I was asking. Someone saw a need and made some software and I'm asking does it work. My motto is... I make my life easier for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan R. Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Well yeah!! BUT someone saw a need to automate this and well done thats why I was asking. Someone saw a need and made some software and I'm asking does it work. My motto is... I make my life easier for me... You do realize people will take advantage of that attitude... Hence, sketchy software like this. I'm not saying this is bad but it reeks of suspect. Let me ask you this: What other software are they selling? T3X4S 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romero Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 As you can see from my response I haven't used this (or anything similar) and never will. If you want automation it's easy to automate most driver installers using a script and silent install switches. Anyway, if you like using and even paying for such snake oil software it's up to you of course, so I'll leave you to it. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 If it sounds to good to be true, it normally is. Do yourself a favor and take the few extra minutes to install what you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fbsduser Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I have never needed to use this kind of software myself. If I need to find or update drivers in anyone's PC I just boot it off a Linux LiveUSB and run a script I got which goes through lspci and lsusb, and then fetches the latest versions of the appropiate windows drivers for both x86 and amd64 off the manufacturer's websites, mount the windows partition and moves the drivers to it. After that is just booting back to windows and manually installing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Also you shouldn't always upgrade the drivers, if your system is running fine everything works and no crashes, leave it the hell alone. The only driver you really need to update is the graphics card if you're a gamer. Tews 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiCKX Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Used this and another similar thing, their website looks a dime a dozen but it worked and didn't mess up anything. The thing is, on a normal Win Vista/7/8 you don't need to update anything but gfx drivers as said above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsYcHoKiLLa Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I bought this but it isn't that great, it's very bad at installing chipset drivers, it'll end up downloading some random chipset package because it has one chip in it that matches yours, then installs the whole package and a few times it's messed up other drivers for me. Usually Intel chipset packages. It's also really bad at doing Realtek drivers and usually ends up downloading a recent but wrong driver. I would actually recommend IOBit Driver Booster, there's a free and a pro version, that's never got the wrong package for me. http://www.iobit.com/driver-booster.php Pro version is annual and will allow you to use it on 3 PCs/laptops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evacc44 Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I use www.ma-config.com Simple and it works. No software to install. You download a plug in or download a .exe that you run. It sends your computer profile to their server and then opens a page with a list of the drivers to install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPreston Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 ...... :s Just run windows update after changing the device initialisation settings to search there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 18, 2014 Moderator Share Posted April 18, 2014 ...... :s Just run windows update after changing the device initialisation settings to search there Windows never has the latest driver in their arsenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Windows never has the latest driver in their arsenal. And? Why does it have to be the latest, it has to be one that's works and is stable. That far more important than the latest driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 18, 2014 Moderator Share Posted April 18, 2014 And? Why does it have to be the latest, it has to be one that's works and is stable. That far more important than the latest driver. Doesn't the OP want the latest drivers of everything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Doesn't the OP want the latest drivers of everything? But he doesn't need to and he shouldn't. having the latest only means having a more unstable system and generally for no benefit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 19, 2014 Moderator Share Posted April 19, 2014 But he doesn't need to and he shouldn't. having the latest only means having a more unstable system and generally for no benefit. I'm going by what HE wants, not what WE are saying. No, he doesn't need the latest crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 And this is a discussion forum, we're telling him he doesn't need to do this and it's counter productive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleNeutrino Veteran Posted April 19, 2014 Veteran Share Posted April 19, 2014 i have never found a driver search / update software that didnt look shady however, at work if we are working on a computer that we just cannot find drivers for we use Slim Drivers. i think i actually found it here on Neowin but i honestly cannot remember. their free version will allow you to find unknown device drivers as well as update existing drivers on your computer however, you have to do it one at a time. not bad though for being free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auditor Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I recently upgraded a horrible Win 8 OS back to Win 7 on Toshiba laptop. Everything worked fine as I searched the driver for Win 7 except USB 3 port. I tried many driver download software and none of them can find the missing USB driver for Win 7. Toshiba had some good quality laptop before but I guess not anymore. On their support page you won't find the right driver for your device and they are also horrible to provide drivers for Win 7 for their latest computer sold. Anyway, try to find driver on their own before you even think about using these driver finding products as they are not really very useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetor Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 i never had the need to find drivers and those apps / sites look as malware riddled as possible. I always install the OEM drivers as possible and if it's out of support (like some OEMs that don't support nvidia graphics anymore) then sometimes even Intel, AMD, NVIDIA or Microsoft can provide drivers when the OEM doesn't. the only time i had a hard time figuring what wireless driver one laptop had was a old Acer laptop; it had been formated and not even in the Acer site it was listed the wireless driver or wireless card model (i though at the time it was a mistake by then). Fortunately i found out because that series it had to be a realtek, intel or atheros, so i download all the generic ones, try one by one until it one worked then let Microsoft Update do the update (it installed an driver that even the OEM didn't had on their site). i see no reason to use this kind of softwares, not to mention they all look shady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetor Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I recently upgraded a horrible Win 8 OS back to Win 7 on Toshiba laptop. Everything worked fine as I searched the driver for Win 7 except USB 3 port. I tried many driver download software and none of them can find the missing USB driver for Win 7. Toshiba had some good quality laptop before but I guess not anymore. On their support page you won't find the right driver for your device and they are also horrible to provide drivers for Win 7 for their latest computer sold. Anyway, try to find driver on their own before you even think about using these driver finding products as they are not really very useful. Intel? USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver? https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=21129 Also i've had a good share of HP laptops that used the Toshiba bluetooth drivers, Lenovo that uses other OEMs drivers and such, so it's possible that the driver that you what is made and used for other OEMs. Also if you post here the model of that laptop i can search the driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Of course they don't provide drivers for an unsupported OS, why would they ? Anibal P 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetor Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Of course they don't provide drivers for an unsupported OS, why would they ? and do you know it's not a unsupported OS? :rolleyes: it could be downgrade rights... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 and do you know it's not a unsupported OS? :rolleyes: it could be downgrade rights... Because firstly it didn't come with the PC and secondly they didn't have drivers for it, and thirdly Toshiba never, never has and never will support more than one OS on their computers unless it's a business model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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