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Driver Booster Pro 4.4.0 was available as a giveaway on July 17, 2017!
Driver Booster is a driver updating software, created with IObit's most effective driver update technology. The program scans and identifies outdated drivers automatically, downloads and installs the right updates for you with just ONE click. It restores system and backs up drivers with its Rescue center. It also provides more gaming performance and protects your computer from hardware failures, system crashes and conflicts. Save your time with Driver Booster Pro.
Please note: the license is provided for 6 months
Windows XP/ Vista/ 7/ 8/ 8.1/ 10; 1 GHz processor or faster; 512 MB of RAM memory; 50 MB of free hard drive space
14.9 MB
$22.95
Dear users,
We have contacted the developer in regards to the issue with the license key. Hopefully it will be resolved soon.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Always yours,
GOTD Team
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Staal Burger, If you still like it after 6 months, then purchase it.
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PhilS,
Does this mean today's giveaway will expire in 6 months?
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Jon King, maybe you missed this: "Please note: the license is provided for 6 months"
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PlilS, "Please note: the license is provided for 6 months"
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Jon King, The Pro features will but the program will still operate.
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i like all of iobit's software but on this download my windows 7 h HP pavillion would not start back up after load and reboot and driver up dates my windows 8.1 machines and windows 10 machines working with it just fine any ideas why
I had to reset that machine to an earlier backup
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downloaded the iobit driver pro version on my own .
Still waiting for key . what does soon mean?
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I signed up during the giveaway and never received the email.
How long before i can get the iobit giveaway driver booster pro ? and code.
I am still waiting for the download link and code.
Please let me know . Thanks, Steven
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Please do not run this. My System hanged. Some other password protection software popping up again and again
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Wonderful! Scanning with the FREE version of 4.40 (ie. not PRO) it had recently registered an error, saying there was a problem with MS C++ -- or something -- and that I NEEDED 4.40 PRO to solve that problem. Okay, I thought happily, when I saw today's GOTD -- PRO version to the rescue.
Except it didn't. So what was the point of pushing me to BUY the Pro version, as I might have done, a day before, if it wasn't going to "fix" things??
To be fair, although it reported the same issue, and suggested the Pro version would fix it, but hadn't -- when I went back again later, it did not report a problem with MS C++.....
Perhaps it fixed the problem "in it's spare time...."
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One thing people forget is that the drivers are written by the manufactures of the hardware and not the other way around. If Intel's or AMD MB drivers are updated with unverified drivers, you may end up with a dead system.
Furthermore, you can not get more speed or power doing updates, which is not more then a date and re-name change scheme of the previous or original drivers.
If the CPU requires 3 wait states and two 64 bit registers loaded to access a particular device, nothing can change that requirement even if you install thousands of different drivers. You may get it to work but it may create jittery screens or slow down on SATA access time or overlaps of the next device instruction registers on the next CPU instruction cycle and make it worst.
The drivers are meant to access other cheaps and peripherals attached to the MB and they can not run any faster than the CPU time slices allocated for that device either in the firmware or the OS (windows).
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Just a quick warning folks.
Updates to drivers are to fix specific problems in certain machines.
If there is an Upated driver that you need,
then these can be found at your computer manufacturers website.
You should never ever update a driver just because someone or a program say's you must.
You all know the old adage.
if it is not broke, then dont fix it.
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After installation, the Driver Booster suggests to fix Windows Vulnerabilities (ransomware).
Is it safe to go ahead and allow this?
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Ram, yes it is safe, and I recommend you to let it fix the issues.
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Ram, Definitely not. Get the latest updates from Microsoft to fix vulnerabilities, not a third-party site or application.
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This thing WRECKED my computer. I tried to update some drivers and it was unusable, took 20 minutes to get to restore.
It installed and activated easily thoughXD uninstalled just as easily.
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I must say I downloaded from another website and used the code to turn the free downloaded one into a pro version and ran it.
I was unsure about the amount of drivers listed as VERY old but I let it do its thing, but unticked most game driver updates.
When rebooted, there were no issues except that my SD card driver asked to be updated and from then on, no issues.
Cant say I have actually noticed any change but I did run Driver Booster a second time and all was well, so thanks GOATD for this one.
I am now going to install it on the lappy with confidence.
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While for the most part this program has been very useful for me "IN THE PAST." I won't use it anymore after it decided to update the motherboard drivers for my older Sandy-Bridge and caused a hard crash that took me over 4 hours to recover from. The only saving grace I had is that I had a disc image of the OS that had 80% of the applications that were already installed that I was using otherwise it would have been a lot longer.
I'm going to pass on this version, as well as any new IOBit products for a while.
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After the last Giveaway of this program I went on to buy it. As I have six months licence to run on that I'll skip this download but I would like to say that it does seem to be a very good and useful program. I've never had any issues with driver updates and it's an absolute godsend if ever you have to (or want to) clean install Windows. It saves hours of faffing about finding, downloading and installing drivers manually. The program is not infallible - I recently found a more appropriate USB 3 controller driver to run my new portable hard disk drive, for example (not the default Microsoft one) - but on the whole I think this does a better job of finding updates and correct drivers than I would.
In short, I would recommend this program. If you're of a nervous disposition then be reassured that backups are taken every time and you can always "roll back" if something goes wrong.
Hope this helps.
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good program, does updates some of the others do not
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I build Custom PC's, Work Stations and Servers for people who have special,needs. Since they all start at the mother board level most often the included driver utility disk is not the latest drivers I install the free edition of this program and run a scan to easily update them. Obviously if a suggested driver is not wanted I just un-check it. The program does backup the drivers you started with making reversing an operation is easy.
I have saved hours of time with this utility. Trusting Billy at Microsoft is not usually the best option!
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I ran the program to install and it DID NOT give me a 'key' to install for the PRO of the program. My version says FREE and when I click "activate" it takes me to the web to purchase the program.
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Main thing with these kind of apps is to be real careful which Updates they want to do regarding any GOTD or other free sources where a Program has that "may stop working if you update it" warning. These Updaters might just go ahead and update an app you forgot had that limitation. Not always happens just be aware. Glary & Wise have nice feature to do this too. Thanks GOTD.
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il existe des sites dédiés à la reconnaissance de pilotes obsolète, ou , simplement un peu vieux (voir très vieux) ex "Ma config" . Le problème de ces site c'est : ça c'est pas bon tiens une adresse et demmerdes-toi (pas cool) l'avantage de ce soft c'est qu'il trousve effectivement le pas bon mauis cible également son remplaçant. Mais l'utilisation en continue je ne suis pas trop pour non plus un peu comme les défrgmentation en somme.
pour conclure: un bon soft
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There are sites dedicated to the recognition of obsolete drivers, or, just a little old (see very old) ex "Ma config". The problem with these sites is that it is not good to have an address and demmerdes-vous (not cool) the advantage of this app is that it really hides the not good mauis target also its replacement. But the continuous use I'm not too much for either a bit like defrosting in sum.
To conclude: a good soft
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Installed on an Hp tablet that stopped auto rotating after Win 10 was installed. Had tried several workarounds suggested on the Hp forums to no avail. Just ran this program and guess what? Problem fixed. Very happy.
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Installed on an older Hp tablet running Win 10. It's been downloading and installing drivers for well over an hour now and progress has been stuck on 26% for quite some time.
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DriverMax is far better than this GAOTD....I've been using it for years and never failed!
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Haven't received license key. Went the via mail method. Never had a problem with this, or this publisher. STRANGE!
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I am getting this error:
http://holla.freeshell.org/20170717-Screenshot-001.jpg
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Don't fix what is not broken. Up dates can screw your pc badly. Please listen to me I have been working with pc's writing binary code since 1976. #4 is only part right. A new driver can screw up your pc. Make sure you have unchecked automatic reboot before you up date. Good Luck.
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Luis Accardi, new drivers will often be updated through the Windows update process anyway.
With the restore point being created, it is easy to get to the Windows recovery options in the event of a boot failure and use the restore point to go back to exactly where you started.
I don't see any sense in unticking the automatic reboot option either as if a driver installation requires a reboot then whether automatically or manually then you are going to have to find out one way or another,
As somebody that has working with binary code for so long, you should know that when installing anything, whether it be a driver or application, you are installing something developed from binary code and there is always a risk of an error but if we never took the risk then none of us would be using computers today.
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PhilS, that's not 100% true. I once had the issue that the graphics driver was corrupted and Win10 couldn't boot anymore afterwards, thus I couldn't get to restore a restore point.
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Luis Accardi, ...
It's always good to be cautious, but I must say I have used iObit driver booster, the free & occasional Giveaway Pros for several years on my Samsung notebook and installed it a good number of PCs of friends with OS ranging from Win 7 - 10 and do not remember any driver update related issues that can be attributed to it.
Samsung stopped making notebooks not too long after I purchased mine, then Win 8.1, which I have long upgraded to Win 10. This is significant, since they also stopped providing drivers beyond those for Win 8.1.
That there are no issues, is to be attributed to flexibility of Win 10 with its driver updates & those grabbed by iObit driver booster.
Right now going to update from version 4.1.0 to 4.4.0
... but, if your gadget works immaculately, ... with current drivers, one does not have to ...
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M. H., You can boot from an external disk to get to a restore point.
Your case would be the exception than the rule though and I guess we know that nothing is 100% perfect but we know that it's enough to trust using and updating them in the first place.
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@mike,
Speaking of gadgets...I just managed to get my old iomega usb floppy drive to work on a windows 7 machine....well ,to be honest..I did not use today's giveaway
:)
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TK, I solved my problem by temporarily installing a different graphics card which allowed me to boot into Windows. I've then uninstalled the graphics drivers of the other graphics card, shut down the PC, replaced the graphics card again (to my original one) and could successfully boot up. I've then updated the drivers from official sources.
That issue really gave me some headaches - and my rest of faith in Microsoft was gone as well (I had update problems with Windows 7 so I was kinda forced to update to Windows 10).
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Used email to get download link, but it has not arrived yet. Checked spam etc filters already.
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All OK. The key works, thanks.
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Thank you for this...I just copied the license # from the read me file and opened my free version and inserted it into the Options/License entrance and bam pro version.
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Another thing that deserves a mention.
How many times have you installed a free product only to see that the vendors want to bundle additional software where you have to untick boxes to prevent it.
This one gives you 2 similar type options but they are op in rather than opt out, so credit to the company for their integrity in this respect.
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PhilS, GOOD point! just pay attention, press the tiny "skip" button, not the huge green "next" button..
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PhilS,
That's why I have a free program called "Unchecky"
This program works in the background using little
resources to prevent bundleware from installing.
It works by automatically unchecking bundled software.
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Having used a number of these driver update utilities, this is the one that I would trust more than any other.
Some will say that if it ain't broke, don't fix it and new drivers may introduce more problems and that can be true but Driver Booster Pro will create a restore point and back up existing drivers first, so in the event of a problem, you can easily roll back.
Installation is a choice and you can pick and choose those that you wish to install.
I tend to turn off the game elements option but that's just a personal choice because not all the elements offered are of any tangible benefit to me.
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PhilS, NEVER use a 3rd party driver updater. ALWAYS use the OEM site for hardware drivers. Why would you trust your PC stability to someone else?
FWIW, Malwarebytes classifies this program as PUP and disallows installation.
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