What is the best software for driver updating?
August 5th, 2016
Usually, if I have uninstalled driver (Question mark in the device manager) – I go to its properties, find its Hardware ID, and then copy it (manually) to google.com and thats how I find unknown drivers.
My question is, are there any programs that do the same but automatically? I mean, without installing spam software or drivers, but just give me the correct name / address of any of my unknown drivers? Thanks!
None, go to your computer’s manufacturers website to check for latest drivers.
None, go to your computer's manufacturers website to check for latest drivers.
Thats an excellent idea that works (almost everytime) with Dell support. But what to do if you have a lenovo laptop, or other manufacturer, that doesnt let you analyze your computer automatically?
What to do with a manufacturer that uploads a 1 GB installation pack for an Ethernet adapter that requires a .net 4 to install itself (WTF lenovo?!) ?
None, go to your computer's manufacturers website to check for latest drivers.
Thats an excellent idea that works (almost everytime) with Dell support. But what to do if you have a lenovo laptop, or other manufacturer, that doesnt let you analyze your computer automatically?
What to do with a manufacturer that uploads a 1 GB installation pack for an Ethernet adapter that requires a .net 4 to install itself (WTF lenovo?!) ?
Who said anything about analyze a computer ? there’s a support section in the manufacturer where you will see a list of drivers by sections.
the manufacturer is the motherboard brand, use Speccy by Piriform to see what’s running under the hood of your laptops.
Google the model of your laptop to get accurate results.
About the 1GB pack, it’s a pack that has ALL the drivers that you need to install in a single pack, instead of downloading them 1 by 1, .NET 4 Framework is required because the application installing those drivers for you was written in .NET technology, probably C#.
if you still insist and want a software to download ONLY the drivers for you, then i would recommend this:
https://www..org/viewtopic.php?t=21787296
None, go to your computer's manufacturers website to check for latest drivers.
Thats an excellent idea that works (almost everytime) with Dell support. But what to do if you have a lenovo laptop, or other manufacturer, that doesnt let you analyze your computer automatically?
What to do with a manufacturer that uploads a 1 GB installation pack for an Ethernet adapter that requires a .net 4 to install itself (WTF lenovo?!) ?
Who said anything about analyze a computer ? there's a support section in the manufacturer where you will see a list of drivers by sections.
the manufacturer is the motherboard brand, use Speccy by Piriform to see what's running under the hood of your laptops.
Google the model of your laptop to get accurate results.
About the 1GB pack, it's a pack that has ALL the drivers that you need to install in a single pack, instead of downloading them 1 by 1, .NET 4 Framework is required because the application installing those drivers for you was written in .NET technology, probably C#.
if you still insist and want a software to download ONLY the drivers for you, then i would recommend this:
https://www..org/viewtopic.php?t=21787296
If you vmWare your installation before releasing it to public, you will notice that a clean installation of Windows 7 comes with 3.5 .net While compiling your project in Visual Studio, you can change the framework from .net 4 to .net 3.5 If you would read carefully, you would notice that the 1 GB driver is only for one device. Thanks for the software you posted though.
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None, go to your computer's manufacturers website to check for latest drivers.
Thats an excellent idea that works (almost everytime) with Dell support. But what to do if you have a lenovo laptop, or other manufacturer, that doesnt let you analyze your computer automatically?
What to do with a manufacturer that uploads a 1 GB installation pack for an Ethernet adapter that requires a .net 4 to install itself (WTF lenovo?!) ?
Who said anything about analyze a computer ? there's a support section in the manufacturer where you will see a list of drivers by sections.
the manufacturer is the motherboard brand, use Speccy by Piriform to see what's running under the hood of your laptops.
Google the model of your laptop to get accurate results.
About the 1GB pack, it's a pack that has ALL the drivers that you need to install in a single pack, instead of downloading them 1 by 1, .NET 4 Framework is required because the application installing those drivers for you was written in .NET technology, probably C#.
if you still insist and want a software to download ONLY the drivers for you, then i would recommend this:
https://www..org/viewtopic.php?t=21787296
If you vmWare your installation before releasing it to public, you will notice that a clean installation of Windows 7 comes with 3.5 .net While compiling your project in Visual Studio, you can change the framework from .net 4 to .net 3.5 If you would read carefully, you would notice that the 1 GB driver is only for one device. Thanks for the software you posted though.
Of course you could change the framework version before compiling the project, but maybe they used a feature that was introduced in .net 4.0.
None, go to your computer's manufacturers website to check for latest drivers.
Thats an excellent idea that works (almost everytime) with Dell support. But what to do if you have a lenovo laptop, or other manufacturer, that doesnt let you analyze your computer automatically?
What to do with a manufacturer that uploads a 1 GB installation pack for an Ethernet adapter that requires a .net 4 to install itself (WTF lenovo?!) ?
Who said anything about analyze a computer ? there's a support section in the manufacturer where you will see a list of drivers by sections.
the manufacturer is the motherboard brand, use Speccy by Piriform to see what's running under the hood of your laptops.
Google the model of your laptop to get accurate results.
About the 1GB pack, it's a pack that has ALL the drivers that you need to install in a single pack, instead of downloading them 1 by 1, .NET 4 Framework is required because the application installing those drivers for you was written in .NET technology, probably C#.
if you still insist and want a software to download ONLY the drivers for you, then i would recommend this:
https://www..org/viewtopic.php?t=21787296
If you vmWare your installation before releasing it to public, you will notice that a clean installation of Windows 7 comes with 3.5 .net While compiling your project in Visual Studio, you can change the framework from .net 4 to .net 3.5 If you would read carefully, you would notice that the 1 GB driver is only for one device. Thanks for the software you posted though.
Of course you could change the framework version before compiling the project, but maybe they used a feature that was introduced in .net 4.0.
Or just a lazy programmer that got a sample code that requires only .net 4.0
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Standard procedure for drivers:
There are a lot of ways to find your drivers, I’m just going to list them in order from best to worst and not provide any details, there are Google articles for any one mentioned. You need either Ethernet or wireless drivers depending on how you connect (I’d recommend to get both just in case). So the ways are:1. See if your laptop has a service tag and put its number to the manufacturers site, you’ll get drivers for the exact laptop you are holding.
2. Google your laptop model + drivers and again use any result pointing to the manufacturers site ONLY.
3. Go to the device manager at control pa and find your hardware ids ( google for a how-to). Search google using the Id numbers you found. Try to download the links of the vendor directly (the device’s vendor, not your laptop’s this time).
4. Find the names of your devices from device manager or by using a third party app like nirsoft’s Driverview and Google for “device name + driver”.
5. Use a third party program to backup your drivers to an external device and restore them after windows reinstallation, this assumes you are installing the same OS and version. The best free program for this is supposedly Double Driver, I wouldn’t know because I never use this method, tried in the past but these programs are buggy. Not recommended.
There are other ways too, I think I’ve listed the most important ones. For every choice make sure to choose the proper OS and version for the drivers, the one you are going to install of course not the one you currently use (I.e Windows 7 64-bit).
DirverMax is the best program for finding drivers.
Driver Genius used to be the preferred app for driver updating.
But I think you will find the crack for it now stops it downloading, making it fairly useless.
See replies given here..
https://www..org/viewtopic.php?t=20842549&highlight=On the other hand, I have usd Driver Booster Pro before.
It is from a fairly respected company (IOBit) and seems to work quite well..
https://www..org/viewtopic.php?t=19367819&start=0You just have to keep saying NO to all their other stuff, and make it doesn’t auto start,
from what I remember.
I’ve tried a few and found the IOBit Driver Booster to be reliable and quick.
And this is from someone who doesn’t like IOBit – they steal people’s code (ccleaner and defraggler code was stolen).
Odd, talking about that on a site, but they pretend to be “honest programmers”, we KNOW we’re ers.
they steal people's code (ccleaner and defraggler code was stolen).I wonder how can you be sure of that. I’m not saying that it didn’t happen but searching on the net I were not able to find any reference hinting at it. I didn’t follow the news about those softwares and I know that reversing a program is not the easiest task.
Edit: I got confused, I thought that I was sending a PM and instead I wrote a reply here.
It’s normally best if you update them yourself If you aren’t haven’t any problems with a driver, then updating it would not make a difference
they steal people's code (ccleaner and defraggler code was stolen).
I wonder how can you be sure of that. I'm not saying that it didn't happen but searching on the net I were not able to find any reference hinting at it. I didn't follow the news about those softwares and I know that reversing a program is not the easiest task.I remember they had a malware removal tool which had supposedly copied copyrighted mbam database back then, they just implemented the library not copied all the code. Anyway we are spamming and this goes way beyond the purpose of this thread.
https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?/topic/33217-iobit-theft-conclusion/Yes… I still do recommend that tool though, it works and works well.