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Giveaway of the Day - Driver Magician

August 30, 2011 1:13:04 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums

 

A good one!

“Driver Magician offers a professional solution for device drivers backup, restoration, update and removal in Windows operating system. It identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore all the “saved” drivers just as if you had the original driver diskettes in your hands.”

 

The Driver Magician website states:

“Driver Magician offers a professional solution for device drivers backup, restoration, update and removal in Windows operating system. It identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore all the "saved" drivers just as if you had the original driver diskettes in your hands. After one system reboot, your PC will be loaded and running with the required hardware drivers.
What's more, Driver Magician has a built in database of the latest drivers with the ability to go to the Internet to receive the driver updates. It saves lots of time to find the correct drivers and mature drivers will obviously increase the performance of hardware. If there are unknown devices in your PC, Driver Magician helps you detect them easily and quickly with its built in hardware identifier database.”

Key features:

  • Back up device drivers of your computer in four modes.

  • Restore device drivers from backup in one mouse click.

  • Update device drivers of your PC to improve system performance and stability.

  • Uninstall device drivers

  • Live Update device identifier database and driver update database.

  • Detect unknown devices.

  • Back up more items such as My Documents and Desktop.

  • Restore more items from backup.

  • Get detailed information of the hardware drivers.

  • Clone all drivers to an auto-setup package (.exe), so you can restore drivers without installing Driver Magician. “

You’ve got about 14 hours left.

As always, read the “Readme.txt”, install, update and then click the “Activate.exe”. If you have to restore, it probably won’t work after restoration. A bummer, but that’s the way it goes. Even so, a trial download should be able to be used to restore whatever backups it makes for you. Note their location!

Download:  http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

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Reply #1 August 30, 2011 2:43:03 PM
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Read the comments first! The results have been a mixed bag.

Device Doctor was recommened by one commenter, although it won't back up your drivers.

 It has portable, U3, and installed versions. I just tried it and it appears to be accurate and it downloaded the one update it found very quickly. Plus...it's always free.

 

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Reply #2 August 30, 2011 2:47:33 PM
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I think I looked at this at one time but I can not remember why I didn't get it. 

Slim Drivers seem to be working just fine for a free program although it may not have all the options as Driver Magician.

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Reply #3 August 30, 2011 3:05:55 PM
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Quoting Wizard1956,
reply 1
Read the comments first! The results have been a mixed bag.

They always are, Wiz. I read some of the comments but I find it's pretty good after installing it myself. I'd love to hear what you think, though. Have you tried it?  

  

These weresome of the opinions... didn't seem too bad to me, I'll be glad to check out the software you suggested, though.

 

 

Philly: Slimdrivers has downloaded older drivers at times. I used it until it stopped being as useful as Driver Magician... backs up etc, if you have to roll back.

 

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Reply #4 August 30, 2011 3:10:59 PM
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I never go by the thumbs up or down rating. Too many people rate the software without even trying it. That's why I read the comments, they are usually made by people who have tried it out. Good or bad, it's at least more accurate.

Btw, no need for backing up drivers by themselves if you make an Image back-up.

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Reply #5 August 30, 2011 3:44:35 PM
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I do... and am glad you do too, but rarely do folks do it in time.... and  some folks don't, or can't afford the software/hardware... 

I try to alert folks. Sometimes I actually go to sleep and miss half the give away... Every piece of software has its good and bad points.

I respect your opinions, Wiz, so please pm me any stuff you've seen around and think is good so I can look them up. 

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Reply #6 August 30, 2011 4:02:35 PM
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Driver Magician is flawed. Firstly it find incompatible drivers and says it's safe to install them. Secondly i don't know where it finds the updates but the last few times i have tried this software the drivers it downloaded have been infested with viruses and malware. A friend of mine used this software to update a driver on his PC and ended up with porn icons on his desktop and a completely trashed system requiring a complete format and reinstall of windows. Personally i wouldn't touch this crap with a 40 foot pole and my advice is for people to keep the hell away from this overpriced and quite frankly in my opinion dangerous program.

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Reply #7 August 30, 2011 4:19:17 PM
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Those are the suggestions by users to improve the product(s), usually driven by the enticement of a free license. The comments contain the real feedback: Taken from the comments section of Giveaway of theday.  LINK

"Driver magician works well when backing up drivers but the update function is totally inadequate. It finds incompatible drivers and drivers older than the ones installed"

" I select download and it comes up with an error message saying: “Drivers update is disabled in the unregistered version of Driver Magician” and does not let me download… I check to make sure that it was registered and it is."

" I used this program one time before and got really unstable results. Quite often the drivers were either outdated or identical to the ones I already had."

"Did not find the most recent drivers. Did not know about several common hardware devices on my Win7x64. Also found drivers that were not for my hardware…even with correct hardware ID’s."

"Backup works very slowely.
If it cannot find all the driver info : programs looks like hanging.
unchecking unwilling drivers helps.
!!!! Update of drivers doesnot work with Give away Registration !!!!!

I am not impressed "

"I have a problem with the driver download times for where it decides to get the drivers from. I selected download for one of the drivers it said to update and it starts downloading at 2kb/s and will complete in 15 hours."

"This program installed easily on my Win 7 x64 machine, but it is still showing that it is “unregistered.”

"I too got the same error message as lea (Comment 5) “Drivers update is disabled in the unregistered version of Driver Magician”

" Driver Magician was a complete disaster.

1. Replaced perfectly good up to date drivers with older versions.

2. Did not recognise that I had a fairly important driver missing.

3. Installed drivers not related to any software on my system.

4. Ended up totally fritzing my system and I had to do a complete clean reinstall of the operating system and software."

There are good results as well, thus the mixed bag comment. I just wanted to inform folks of possible bad results. I was in no way dissing your post, I just wanted people to look into it carefully. (as they should with any unknown software)

 

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Reply #8 August 30, 2011 4:26:31 PM
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All I can say, Wiz is that I at least installed it and registered it, and it works just fine for me... I do that with what I recommend, and really don't give all the credence in the world to what others say, especially when the vote is so heavily in its favor.

I do think that some of the positives and negatives anywhere are probably shills...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/your-money/22haggler.html 

Might give Driver Doctor a spin, though. Hadn't heard of it... although some negativity in the Forum there too. You recommend it?

 

 

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