Post by mikkh on May 13, 2013 14:14:26 GMT
I'm always suspicious of software that claims to find missing drivers, because there's a lot of rubbish masquerading under that banner, they either don't work, want money or are very prone to giving you toolbars and all kinds of extra guff not relevant to the program.
I found this quite a while ago attracted by it's GNU GPL (open source license mostly applied to Linux software)so I knew it was both free and not carrying unwanted extras - good start
drp.su/download.htm
Ignore the lite version, can't see the point of it myself as it fetches drivers off the internet - the very reason I usually need to find drivers in the first place i.e lack of an internet connection because of missing drivers!!
Onto the other two choices, the DVD or the 'full' version. The DVD version obviously needs burning to a DVD first and if things such as netbooks didn't exist (and no optical drive machines in general)this would be fine, but you also have lots of machines with optical drives that are a bit iffy about reading DVD's that have been made on another machine so the DVD version is not so good unless you use it like the full version - i.e. extracted files/folders only which you put on a USB flash/thumb/pen drive and run from there
The DVD ISO is just over 4 GB when extracted and the full version something nearer 7GB. Neither will fit on a 4 GB USB drive, so you need a minimum 8 GB one.
It claims to have all drivers for all (Windows) systems from XP up to Windows 8 in both 32 and 64 bit formats, so you can forgive it for being so big and so far it's worked on every machine I've tried it on
Also includes Flash,Java and a host of other programs you might need on a freshly installed machine
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I found this quite a while ago attracted by it's GNU GPL (open source license mostly applied to Linux software)so I knew it was both free and not carrying unwanted extras - good start
drp.su/download.htm
Ignore the lite version, can't see the point of it myself as it fetches drivers off the internet - the very reason I usually need to find drivers in the first place i.e lack of an internet connection because of missing drivers!!
Onto the other two choices, the DVD or the 'full' version. The DVD version obviously needs burning to a DVD first and if things such as netbooks didn't exist (and no optical drive machines in general)this would be fine, but you also have lots of machines with optical drives that are a bit iffy about reading DVD's that have been made on another machine so the DVD version is not so good unless you use it like the full version - i.e. extracted files/folders only which you put on a USB flash/thumb/pen drive and run from there
The DVD ISO is just over 4 GB when extracted and the full version something nearer 7GB. Neither will fit on a 4 GB USB drive, so you need a minimum 8 GB one.
It claims to have all drivers for all (Windows) systems from XP up to Windows 8 in both 32 and 64 bit formats, so you can forgive it for being so big and so far it's worked on every machine I've tried it on
Also includes Flash,Java and a host of other programs you might need on a freshly installed machine
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