I downloaded this and was very impressed at first it identified about 12 drivers that were out of date and updated them no problem but I then discovered that my touchpad had stopped working after a lot of trial and error trying to get it working again I had to run the recovery tool and take my laptop back to a previous time now every thing works fine so don't recommend this product

I’ve tried this free version quite a few months back and it’s no different today. Updating a driver speed, back and forth between 10 and 16 Kbs. High definition audio device driver (147.98 Mb) When I click on accelerate it just takes me to the full purchase page.

# 32 Where do you put the Registration key?????

When you start the program along the bottom of the frame, under the scanner should be a box that says activate or manage license.. Click on that and it should open up a place to past your Reg key. Right in the same area

#23 You might have to download the folder again. My page looks like this...

Installation

Unzip the package you`ve downloaded and install the software by running Setup.exe,
then register the software using the registration name and registration key provided.
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Registration key:

XXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
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!!! .GCD file included is necessary for correct installation and activation. Please make sure to extract all enclosed files to the same folder. After successful activation and installation you may safely delete GOTD installation files from your PC (including .GCD)!!!

You have to install and activate it before the Giveaway offer for the software is over.

Karl, my darling expert, where are you? We need your help!

Perhaps it's me, but it seems that I constantly check with the manufacturer's sites for all my peripherals and update software whenever I see that one is available. Firmwares, additions, corrections AND new drivers (which are -really- scarcer than 'Hen's Teeth')and I just don;'t see the need for this. I could be wrong. I usually am.

Well, can't comment because it won't load on my Medion laptop with Win 7/64 Pro. Try to run setup and it says 'Activating' then a dialog box pops up and says Driver Booster 2 setup has stopped working. This is a new install of Win 7 Pro on the laptop. Tried it twice, downloaded zip file again, extracted, same results. Anyone from developer monitoring here?

Where do you put the
Registration key?????

Could uninstall unused drivers (old printer,webcam,replaced CD R/W drives) and update display,chipset,wi-fi,printer,soundcard,no-name drawing tablet drivers plus plus without problems.A recurrent printer access violation error when my printer was powered off has disappeared.Maintenance of this database by Drive Booster is impressive.A very welcomed makeover and a generous offer, thank you to IObit (and of course GOTD).

Last time I installed Driver Booster with Time freeze on and lost registration when I turned it off, but the main components left on my D: Partition. Nevertheless I tried to run DriverBooster.exe and found it running well. So it is portable?!? Funny.
Some time ago I always had problems with Blue screen, hangs up und unsmooth scrolling in Firefox, when I watched TV on my computer, but driver updates did not solve it untill I noticed that my GPU was running too hot - it is not always the drivers!
For a Newbee like me the information of driver boosters were nevertheless usefull because I even did not understand/ knew the components nor the manufactors of the components. And yes, I always go to the manufactors website and check the changes. Updates which only refer to later OS like mine are useless for me (but claimed as "totally outdated").
I remember that I ran "Autoruns" to get rid of some autochecks/ components of DriverBooster that always appeared at new booting (I use hibernate for weeks).
Now my system runs perfect thanks IObits DriverBooster. Thanks!

First of all, I have Windows 10. Keeping that in mind, I will continue. The download went fine. I always download to its own folder. This was no different. I read the Readme file as always.

I double clicked the setup file and got the GOTD screen as usual. After that there was nothing. I waited for quite some time, but there was still nothing.

I double clicked the setup file again and got "Windows cannot complete the extraction. The destination file could not be created."

I have downloaded the program 3 more times. I have disabled AVG also. I looked through the Forum and didn't find anything related to this topic.

I am not sure if this is me or Windows 10 (keeping in mind that Windows 10 doesn't meet the system requirement for Driver Booster Pro). I would really like to have this program, but can't seem to overcome this. Thanks to IObit for the opportunity and of course to one of my favorite sites, GOTD, thanks a bunch.

I am of the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" school, but I took a gamble on this because of the positive comments. Yikes, my drivers varied between old and extremely old. Up-graded them all and rebooted, worked fine. So I add my name to the thumbs up group.

At me the impression is made that Kunzite is simple there is nobody to have a talk. Really, greed of manufacturers can be envied only. Instead of the free version they already long time under the pretext of its updating try втюхать (втюрить, etc.) the paid version. And without the option — paid or free — only paid, entering it into a temptation of ordinary users. Now about program work — the free version works tolerably. But оооочееень slowly. For those who does not want to waste time on search of sites of manufacturers and downloading therefrom drivers, it not bad consults with the duties. On paid for 6 months it is not necessary to pass, I so think. Yes, greed and greed and again greed.

Also, Occasionally, as with this offering, (which I have now managed to get working (Pro Version) on my Vista lappy) when it comes to copy/pasting the code to register the product, sometimes it wont paste.

My workaround for this is to open a notepad document, paste it there and then copy it from there and THEN paste into place. - Works everytime.

Anyway, as to be expected, it has found a lot of drivers for updating on my outdated lappy so it seems to do its job. They are now installed and up & running and my laptop hums along nicely now, so thanks IOBIT & GOATD for this offering.

Driver booster is the only software of it's kind that I have found reliable and use 2.3 Pro already.

This particular offering will not install on my Windows 10 machine though.

The setup.exe runs and I get the GOTD activating window and then nothing.

The setup.exe process just sits in task manager doing nothing and when I end the task I get the GOTD prompt which then opens a browser tab when I close it.

Bad because don't check HW compatibility. For example - I can't install latest Intel RST driver because isn't support my chipset.

I am sorry but This still shows free version and asks to upgrade to Pro. The readme file says: .GCD file included is necessary for correct installation and activation. Please make sure to extract all enclosed files to the same folder. I extracted every thing to the same folder when I 1st extracted. What do I need to do to get this to work. Please help I would love to try this. I have XP Pro. Thanks

You only need 6 updated hardware drivers and I always get them from the manufacturer web site. Relying on 3rd party to decide for you. it is a dangerous proposition.
Interrupt (IRQ) and memory addressing problem can occur and your whole system may crash at random times. Just check for video, LAN, MB, HDrive, audio and PCI cards drivers, the rest are not important or do not speed up your system at all.
Please anyone tell me why you would need printer port or COM1 ports driver updates.

I have a Dell XPS 8500 - Sadly Dell have not tested drivers for Windows 10 yet despite this computer just being 3 years old!

The only time I had major problems in the past was once updating drivers from another site other then Dell. It is not a mistake that I will make again! For that reason I now avoid any software that updates drivers other then from the manufacturer's site!

I think at this time in particular with Windows 10 only recently available, reading about so many driver issues and related problems in different forums, serious thought should be given to updating drivers using any other then those from the manufacturer's website - in my case Dell!

I've been using the free version on all of my machines for a while; the product has frequently found updated drivers, including relatively obscure ones that weren't obvious to me.

One thing I dislike about the free version, and I'm guessing this Pro version: it installs a couple of scheduled tasks visible in Task Scheduler. When I run the program - not done frequently - I have to go back into Task Scheduler and delete these entries. There isn't any obvious option to say "let me run your program when I want to, not on some arbitrary schedule."

The main difference between the Pro (paid) and the free version is the ability to back up drivers & schedule scans. Although you can tweak the free version to handle those tasks I have found that doing so doesn't improve this utility's function. In fact, I'd rather have the ability to run manually when I choose instead of doing it automatically, much like Windows Updates ... I want to retain that control. Also, if this app tells me I need a new driver and I'm not so sure, then I have the opportunity to go to the mfgr website and check for myself, just in case. Fortunately for the three years I've been using the utility I've only needed to do that one time. I actually like this one (the free one) and plan to keep it an use it. But I would say for all of you guys who wanted to make the hyper-leap to Win-10, give it time. You know that even Microsoft will take time to get it's act together, so the hardware mfgrs will be slow as well.

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EXCELLENT if only for it's ability to automatically install "software" driver updates for vulnerabilities like Flash and Java.

I wish it made a standard backup that can be reinstalled by Windows directly, though.

Thanks!
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Tried installing Driver Booster Pro 2.4 many times an a quad core i7 Toshiba laptop with Windows 1o. I tried sharing and that download as well as the email link, neither will work. Never ever had this issue with any GiveawayOfTheDay software.

Installation was easy enough. However, just as I had anticipated, Driver Booster came up with 7 alleged "very old" drivers - all involving NVIDIA. So I went to my NVIDIA GeForce Experience program and ran a scan and it says that ALL of my drivers are current. I am therefore going to uninstall Driver Booster and dump it. IMHO it provides false information and is unreliable.

Unfortunately this program does not install on Windows 7 x64-bit. Went through every conceivable permutation without success. Tried it on another computer running Windows 7 x32-bit and presto, no bother, loaded straight away and registered it successfully. So what about Windows 7 x64-bit are you going to make it compatible?

"Update" When I checked out the web site link that MikeR provided, I found another Windows link, to help with windows drivers! I am going to try to provide the link, so here it is: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/244617

Have used this software in the past, it's brilliant for it's ease of use and IMHO, one of the best driver updater's out their.
I always have the free version on my system but thanks GAOTD for this temporary Pro version :)

Hi all , I've tried lots of this type of software to update drivers and they r good but they always stuff up my graphics drivers can anyone help please

Windows 10 is very buggy! Even if you drop the UAC slider right down you will still need to install programs as administrator. Have you noticed that iTunes doesn't recognise iPhones on Windows 10? Not even if you re-install iTunes as administrator. But you can get it to work temporarily by re-installing the iPhone driver! Not sure if todays offering will touch the iPhone driver. I am afraid to attempt it.

I've been using this and many IObot products for years with great results!!! Thanks to GAOTD, IObot.COM and as always, our regulars who take the time to really test these programs and pass on their results and opinions to the rest of us.

Thank you very much MikeR, for that web address link! That was very helpful! I wouldn't have known about that particular link, unless you or someone else gave it to me! That's what I like so much about this site! Most everyone that is here, gives everyone else great tips or links to help them out! So, Kudos to you Sir!

On first reading this, I thought iObit was seeking to charge an astonishing $75 for a mere 6 month license to use -- not own -- this software. I now realise that actually, $75 is what it expects you to pay for an annual license. Ah.

Nothing about this developer's behaviour inspires, and certainly not its ploy of seeking to milk consumers year on year for software which is more rented than owned. Worse: iObit has no demonstrable provenance in the field of driver updating, a field of critical importance to a user because if iObit ever gets its updating analysis wrong, the consequences to the user's computer may well be serious. Microsoft already works with hardware / software providers to facilitate driver updating:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/automatically-get-recommended-drivers-and-updates-for-your-hardware

but as Glen writes at post #5, that still doesn't mean Microsoft should be trusted to manage the task properly.

In truth, "driver updating" has become the new "registry optimizer" cash cow for several software publishers, because now that it's finally sunk into the collective mind of computer users worldwide that optimizing your registry is pretty much pointless on modern OS systems, then heigh-ho, time to come up with some other problem for which an expensive cure is now necessary: the updating of allegedly obsolete drivers.

To echo Glen's point: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. If your computer is working fine, don't mess with it. If it isn't, then check with the component vendor concerned, be it for your printer, your graphics card, whatever -- after all, it's easy enough to identify those components, a host of freeware"what's-in-my-computer?" programs have long existed and can be found on any Internet search.

Thanks, then, GOTD, but no thanks. Though we haven't yet reached the stage that occurred when laments were commonplace about "optimized" computers being bricked by absurdly aggressive "registry cleaning", the way this current vogue for driver update software is going, we might soon be.

Quite ironical. Recently when similar software DUMo was offered, I contrasted some features with Driver Booster 2.4 FREE, which is better in some areas. I used Driver Booster taken over from Win 8.1 to Win 10, where it even helped update 4 drivers.

As soon as I saw the PRO version offer, I pounced on it, but noticed with disappointment the installation does not seem to run.

After contacting the activation server, nothing happens ...
You however have "Driver Booster Setup (32 bit)" under Task Manager processes. may be it will wake later & continue the process. ;)

It is true they say it runs on up to Win 8.1, BUT most programs on older systems, at least before upgrading continue functioning under Win 10.

I hope I can re-install the removed 2.4 Free version, if not will go without Driver Booster. Also the 6 month license is not too encouraging. After all, one can always get drivers directly from vendors sites & it is not a big issue like it used to be 10 years & more before.

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This would be the first software in several dozen I have installed of late on different systems that fails installing, just because Win 10 is not shown to be supported. Actually only in a minority of cases is Win 10 mentioned.

Has anyone successfully installed it on Win 10?

Regards

Oh dear, well, I have not given it a thumbs down, although I should.

This one directs you to drivers that are not suitable for your machine or OS. It loads even though you don't need to have it loaded 24/7 ... so it makes me wonder what its doing when its not needed.... look, my point is, when you boot up, sure.... it should look in case you have changed your hardware while the computer was off, and really.... it might look in case a new version of the driver is posted... but come on, its NOT that urgent nor will your computer suddenly die because your drivers are a few hours out of date.

It should unload itself to free up memory, the fact that the human has to do it is.... annoying.

For that reason... NO, but thanks anyhow, GOTD... and thanks to the authors...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The best place to get drivers is from the computer vendor site like asusdotcom for Asus laptops,etc... The vendor knows the hardware in your computer. The so called latest and greatest drivers don't always work in computers that are older or that have been modified by the vendor. Would you rather install a driver on the official support site for your computer or use a driver update program? I trust the people that built my system to know what is best for it. IMO, driver update software and Microsoft don't know more than the vendor/builder of my system.

This is a good deal for all. We have several PC's that have been kept in Driver Heaven for a long time. The pro edition normally is the purchased product and comes straight from Iobit without all of the BS extra junkware you would get if you opted for the free edition and connects you to their highspeed server rather than a slow server. I have also found that it is a great idea to make sure you have the latest cmos bios as well. We are also Beta testing Driver Booster Beta 3.0 which is even better. It's a no brainer and we can see the diferences!

Thanks Iobit and GOTD!

Rick Martin

Not sure what the problem is but this program completely refuses to run the installation on my PC running Windows 10.

Doesn't windows do this already for free?

I have the limited free version of this one.... works great.

Now I can grab the pro version for free. Shame it's just a 6 month licence.