zeus77 Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Hi Piriform.. What about create a software to download drivers ? that will be great... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatoshiRaain Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 That would be pretty rad. I'd use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aethec Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 Well, it already exists (both a web app and a desktop app)...I wonder what could be added to make it better. Piriform French translator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeus77 Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 whats the name of the @web app and a desktop app@ ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhawk Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 I fail to see the point for such an program if you install new hardware such as a webcam, sound card or graphics card you usually have a driver install CD. If you have lost your install CDs then go visit the manufacturer's website and download the drivers yourself you don't need a application to do it for you. Richard S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majestic Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 I fail to see the point for such an program if you install new hardware such as a webcam, sound card or graphics card you usually have a driver install CD. If you have lost your install CDs then go visit the manufacturer's website and download the drivers yourself you don't need a application to do it for you. Richard S. The manufacturer's website is always the best choice for drivers during a hardware install. The drivers on the included CD are seldom the latest releases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhawk Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 For the most part the latest drivers offered by manufacturer's are usually better than their previous, however I've had situations for me that the original or older software / drivers work better. The point I'm making here is you really don't need software to download your drivers files when it's quite easily go visit the manufacturer's website and do it yourself. Richard S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishi Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 I fail to see the point for such an program if you install new hardware such as a webcam, sound card or graphics card you usually have a driver install CD. If you have lost your install CDs then go visit the manufacturer's website and download the drivers yourself you don't need a application to do it for you. Richard S. There are such programs that download drivers for your hardware like Driver Detective that I've seen so far but its legal versions are not free. Let me point out that checking updates from Windows Updates can also check and download hardware drivers for you but this is not the case with all hardware, some have to be located, downloaded and installed manually. This was the case I had with my Realtek sound drivers on Windows 7. My old drivers from the CD just won't work on Windows 7 so I have to manually locate and download a driver. However, its sometimes not too easy to locate drivers in the manufacturer's website as you would often see a long list of links to various drivers for their various hardware products. Some universal drivers might work but they may include features that your exact hardware model does not support. I say, its not so easy for beginners either. I love computer maintenance tasks. Some of my favorite programs: Wordpad -basic word processing Notepad - temporary clipboard and basic scripting module Windows Media Player 12- video, music and online radio player Windows Media Center - live TV, local FM radio CCleaner- handy computer maintenance tool If something fails to work after using the registry cleaner, use SYSTEM RESTORE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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