Scan & Fix 50 registry issues FREECNET Editors' review
Keeping your drivers up-to-date is always a good idea, but who has time to manually check for updates for each and every driver? Drivers For Free makes short work of this task, scanning for driver updates and installing them automatically. We think it's a great way to keep on top of this tedious but necessary job.
Drivers For Free starts by automatically detecting what kind of computer you're using, but that feature didn't work so well for us; the program thought we were using a Dell, but in reality we're running Windows on a Mac. That wasn't a huge problem, though, as we were able to use the "My Computer Is Custom Built" option instead to find our drivers. Drivers For Free quickly scanned our system and returned four drivers that were out of date: for our audio controller, our printer, our PCI bridge, and our universal host controller. Next to the first two drivers were buttons allowing us to view them on the Web, while the other two showed buttons allowing us to download them directly. Clicking on any of the buttons brought up a screen asking us to log in with either our Drivers For Free account or our Facebook account. We opted to create a Drivers For Free account, which required us to supply an e-mail address. Once that was done, we were able to quickly download and install each driver without any issues. Drivers For Free doesn't come with a Help file, but we didn't find that to be a big drawback; if you're the sort of person who knows what drivers are and why they need to be updated, you probably won't have any trouble using it. Overall, we found Drivers For Free to be a no-fuss way to keep our drivers up to date, and we recommend it.
Drivers For Free installs a desktop icon without asking but uninstalls cleanly.
Publisher's Description
From PC Drivers HeadQuarters:
Drivers For Free software is designed to quickly locate the most current drivers specific to your computer system through its user-friendly interface and access to an extensive database. Drivers For Free saves the frustration and extensive time investment usually associated with updating drivers. Drivers For Free provides access to 20,000,000 device associated drivers including over 2,500,000 that are specific to computer manufacturers such as Dell, Toshiba, Gateway, and Compaq.
What's new in this version: Version 2.0.0.7 fixes a problem specific to Windows 8 users who are not able to run the scanner.
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All versions:
3.0 starsout of 35 votes
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Current version:
1.7 starsout of 6 votes
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"what whiny-babies...but fun to read, seriously..."
Version: Drivers For Free 2.0.0.7
Pros
Im no expert with computers, but I know the basics, mainly from forums like this...but I got every driver I needed, correct, current, and microsoft approved...for free
Cons
the download manager worked for the first 4 or 5 downloads, then just died...so I had to use their website and manually download the rest...every device from every company. seems like...I found my exact device and the latest driver for it...
Summary
overall a very good experience...a free registration required, a fairly benign download of software to use the site, then go get your drivers...
to sum up...not perfect, but well worth the time...
(except for those 5 posts before this one...I keep reading the one where the "pro" was he expected the site to give him wings, and the "con" is...just go read it again, keeping in mind its about a website, a promise of salvation, followed by betrayal most foul...)
that was fun...anybody who can make Chaucer funny is ok by me -
"not helpful at all"
Version: Drivers For Free 2.0.0.7
Pros
uses too much space and does not find drivers
Cons
waste of time to try
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"Dear Lord Dont do it it was a wast of my life real"
Version: Drivers For Free 2.0.0.7
Pros
It gives you wings of Hope so you can fly
Cons
then it snatchs it away so you crach to the grougnd to a thud realizing that this pice of vile poo like many other "get youe drivers here softer programs" should have never been and it would be better if I could just get the Dame file there web site clamed to have in the 1st place. oh witch it did not up date becouse softweare is Dum and does not Look for thing Like Bluetooth Stacking headphone Audio Profiles that Microsoft in there Infine have turn off in vista onwards you got to go and get a so yeah
Summary
All 3rd party Scannning Driver auto updater software so far are rubbish. But hay I am just on a Rant
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"Stay Away from this one."
Version: Drivers For Free 2.0.0.7
Pros
I have no pro comments.
Cons
Installed bloatware, tried to register over and over, waste of time
Summary
This software sucks!
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"only want the cash"
Version: Drivers For Free 2.0.0.7
Pros
there wasn't any
Cons
unless you want to buy the full version forget it
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"The most useless driver updater I've ever downloaded."
Version: Drivers For Free 2.0.0.7
Pros
A super incredibly long registration key, that appears to be meaningless, but maybe not.
Cons
It does absolutely nothing, but use up hard drive space.
Summary
It is completely useless and was a total waste of my time and hard drive space.
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