# 2. Faye Davies

DOUBLE DRIVER can only backup and restore your DRIVERS but it's not able to UPDATE any of them....so it cannot definitely be compared to this GAOTD as FREE Alternative!!

Despite negative and misleading comments like the one mentioned above, I found this software pretty GOOD & USEFUL and, for this reason, I highly recommend you downloading and installing it as soon as you can!!

THUMBS UP from me!

That being said, if you prefer relying on FREE solutions, the first thing to do in order to keep your PC in perfect shape (for FREE of course)is actually to update its INTEL drivers:

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect
http://www.intel.com/support/oems.htm

Most important, besides Intel drivers, are also its VIDEO drivers:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/auto_detect.aspx
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Scan.aspx?lang=en-us

Then, for the other remaining DRIVERS, best thing to do is to visit your PC manufacturer website and then download all of the right drivers there, according to the model and OS of your PC!!!

For instance, ACER users can go here to update the drivers of their machine:

http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers

Then to backup & restore all your updated DRIVERS, you can use the excellent freeware "DOUBLE DRIVER" already mentioned above:

http://www.boozet.org/dd.htm

Alternatively or better yet in addition to it, to update all of your drivers with one mouse click, you could also try the following pretty good FREE Third Party Software (all personally tested...don't worry Bubby...LOL!!), kissing your wallet goodbye!!!

As always with Giovanni you can take your pick....

* DRIVERMAX (==> Softpedia Editor Pick)
Can update, backup & restore all your Windows drivers for FREE!!!
However, the FREE edition allows you to update only 2 drivers a day, which is better than nothing of course!!

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/DriverMax.shtml

* Ma Config
http://www.my-config.com/

* Slim Drivers (==> Cool Cloud-Based Driver Management)
https://www.slimwareutilities.com/slimdrivers.php

* (Portable) Device Doctor
http://www.devicedoctor.com/

* Unknown Device Identifier 8.0
http://www.zhangduo.com/unknowndeviceidentifier.html

* Driver Identifier
http://www.driveridentifier.com/

* DriverPack Solution (Caution ==> Highly Addictive...LOL!!!)
http://drp.su/

* DriverView (==> Softpedia Editor Pick)
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/driverview.html

* MyPCDrivers
http://www.mypcdrivers.com/

Enjoy!!

Ciao
Giovanni

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I tried Driver Magician a few years ago and it didn`t work, I still had to re-install my sounds and graphic drivers. Maybe these bugs are fixed now?

An excellent free alternative is Double Driver:
http://www.boozet.org/dd.htm

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Faye Davies  –  12 years ago  –  Você achou esse comentário útil? sim | não (+120)

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Just compared dozens of driver backup and reinstallation software, and this is the worst! Software embodies large quantities of Chinese characters.

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I'm surprised at the lack of positive reviews. Driver Magician has done wonders for me. I had some malware that couldn't be removed without screwing up my laptop and I couldn't get online via wireless (a couple of other problems too) I plugged in my ethernet cable and used Driver Magician and it updated my network drivers and I was back to wifi in half and hour. It fixed some other stuff too.

I back-up my drivers as a safety precaution (like you back up your registry before cleaning it) I have never had to revert back to my back-ups so I can't attest to that feature but I highly recommend this product. I am pretty computer savvy but drivers has never been my forte so I appreciate it doing the checking and updating for me.

I know this isn't really a review with a sweet list of freeware alternatives but I felt I owed Driver Magician my own positive experience shared here. They saved me from an invasive laptop repair or having to restore my laptop to factory state.

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I prefer Double Driver which is free at

http://download1us.softpedia.com/dl/177a9c94bd30679300a77e6bef0c1fb1/50111be6/100026895/software/system/info/double_driver_4.1.0_portable.zip



View which drivers are installed in your system and you can backup the drivers you choose, save and print the drivers list
Written by Elena Opris on November 18th, 2011

Double Driver is a system tool that you can use to detect, backup and restore the drivers of your computer. It is basically a security measure in case these files become corrupted, infected, or if they are accidentally removed.

This is a portable product, so that means there is no installation kit you can run. Simply extract the archive and run the program. It also means that you can store it on an external device and use it on any computer.

Here are some key features of "Double Driver":

· List, save, and print drivers details
· Backup drivers from current Windows
· Backup drivers from non-live/non-booting Windows
· Backup drivers to structured folders, compressed (zipped) folder, and self-extracting capability
· Restore drivers from previous backup
· Available in GUI and CLI application
· Portable (no installation required)

Freeware Junkie  –  12 years ago  –  Você achou esse comentário útil? sim | não (+50)

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