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Drivers For Free

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Key Details of Drivers For Free

  • Scan your computer for missing and outdated drivers
  • Last updated on 06/30/14
  • There have been 0 updates within the past 6 months
  • The current version has 0 flags on VirusTotal badge_icon

Editors' Review

Download.com Staff May 6, 2012

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 Drivers For Free quickly scanned our system and returned four drivers that were out of date: for our audio controller, our printer, our PCI bridge, and our universal host controller.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.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 2.0.0.8

Version 2.0.0.8 fixes a problem specific to Windows 8 users who are not able to run the scanner.

General

Release June 24, 2014
Date Added June 30, 2014
Version 2.0.0.8

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows 2003, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP
Additional Requirements Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

Popularity

Total Downloads 396,451
Downloads Last Week 159
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Developer's Description

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.
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