The free version of Driver Boost will download and install drivers happily, but you avoid adverts and can pay for some additional features with Driver Boost Pro. If only Microsoft were so considerate of its customers. One feature that is in both we especially appreciated is that it has a silent mode where it won’t interrupt you when applications are in full-screen mode. The paid ‘Pro’ version has no limit on use, more drivers, and initiates a backup before installing new drivers, but the free version has plenty of useful features.

Where this product deviates from the norm in driver support applications is that the free version will update drivers, but only two a day. The current version supports Windows 10,8.1,8,7, Vista and XP, should you still be using the older releases. Before passing those on to your computer, IOBit tests that they’re intact and have passed the Microsoft WHQL tests.

IObit is a software house that has created several enhancement and optimisation products that includes Driver Booster in its roster.ĭriver Booster is a driver maintenance tool and sources its drivers from the official manufacturers’ websites. Read our full Driver Genius Platinum review. This Platinum release has a few extras, including a system booster that tweaks a system for greater performance and another tool that optimizes SSDs. It also purges old drivers, so Windows can’t reinstall them accidentally. What makes this one stands out is that it will bundle all the drivers into an executable file for you, a facility that accelerates the reinstalling of a system dramatically. And, it notifies you of new driver releases. When these activities are scheduled is controllable by the user, so that it doesn’t repeat the typical Windows irritation of initiating a reboot while you are using the system.

Once installed, the application scans the drivers installed and matches these against a driver versioning database, and then downloads and installs the latest ones. The level of user intervention is very low, as this solution is practically fire-and-forget. What Avanquest offers is a small but effective tool that manages driver updates on the PC that tracks more than a million hardware drivers to make sure that the right ones are on your computer. As the title suggests, this is the twentieth version of Driver Genius, by Avanquest Software.

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