Like lea commenting on the Giveaway site today, I can't update my drivers, as I get the message "Drivers update is disabled in the unregistered version of Driver Magician”.I have registered.Any ideas ?
Driver Magician 3.61
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mikiem2
ModeratorWhen you run Activate.exe it enters the registration data in the User section of the registry. In Vista/7 you may need to not only run Activate.exe as administrator, but run the app at least once as administrator too so it can read &/or alter it's registry keys as needed. To make sure activation/registration worked, when I click Register in the Driver Magician menu it pops up a message that it's already registered -- the About box shows registered as well.
Since Driver Magician writes to its program folder, you may need to either always run as admin or relax the permissions on that folder. Since installation adds Visual Basic support files to Windows, you may need to run the installation as admin too. The free trial download on the Driver Magician site is identical to the GOTD version [without the wrapper], so you might try that.
Otherwise VB [Visual Basic] can be a pain itself -- like .NET, VB's designed around components that are installed once & then shared by all VB apps, but unlike .NET, developers can use different versions that cannot work side by side, & they can install VB components wherever they like. Driver Magician behaves in those respects, but other VB software you already installed may have screwed up VB on your system, & now Driver Magician doesn't work the way it should. Complicating matters, .NET can get involved supporting VB in win7.
If/when it's VB support itself that's broken, you can *try* to Google/Bing on the "visual basic 6 runtime", then download & after backup install that runtime from Microsoft.com, then check Microsoft Update to be safe. AFAIK the only risk [why I suggest backing up 1st] is that some other VB app may not work properly if/when the current version of VB support files are correctly installed.
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