Useful Driver Tool to share with everyone

[DaveLembke]

I am not soliciting this product, but wanted to share it with other techs who frequent this forum in case they are not aware of this. If this is not allowed to share pointers to good tools then please remove this, otherwise leave it for all to check out and use.

I tried this tool called Driver-Genius Professional, and it is great for backing up drivers on PCs and restoring the drivers after a clean build etc vs having to search for that floppy or CD or website with the correct drivers. They have a trial that works for 15 days for free then you have to buy it to use after that. (From the looks of it, for 15 days you can backup system drivers and use the drivers stored in a folder later even if you dont buy it, which is weird.) I myself will buy it vs use it past the 15 days illegally, even though it appears that you could use the drivers folder created afterwards without the need of this software since you can point windows to this folder for inf drivers etc without the software installed and it works. There are no dependancies of this software to be registered or installed to restore drivers from what I can see...

Here is the link to the website to check out: http://www.driver-soft.com/

[Broni]

DriverMax: http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax/ - free

[DaveLembke]

Cool...I will check that one out...Thanks!

[Broni]

[JJ 3000]

http://driveragent.com/?PHPSESSID=qouukvqrn46ugb4kp7vm0r14n5
this one is also good

[Broni]

Not free, though. I mean, the scan is free. That's it.

[JJ 3000]

http://www.driverguide.com/
this one is okay and you cant beat the price FREE

[Kando]

I use this one: http://www.drivermagician.com/Lite.htm

There is a paid version with more bells and whistles, but just to have a copy of the drivers on a restored computer the Lite version is fine. The link is to the download page and shows a comparison of Lite vs the full version.

I install from a portable drive, run it and back up the non-Windows drivers to the portable. This gives me a copies that can be re-installed should the user need them again.