aldan,
Try turning anti virus program off and re-downloading.

If no joy get into safe mode
(Reboot hitting f8 or hold shift when clicking Restart in W8 or W10)
Then try.

It will work.

aldan, On my laptop, the GCD file activated but the program didn't install. I turned off my AVG Anti-Virus and tried again. It then installed fine. I think the program wrapper was being picked up as being a virus and blocked by AVG. Anyway it worked on mine. Have you tried turning off your anti-virus? Safe-Mode install?

aldan, I have only noticed that happening to me, when SecureAPlus (a giveaway) is running.

Terry Ive, yeh people shouldn't have to do this. when i buy programs from well known vendors they install. no stupidly turning anti virus off or going into safe mode. it installs and works.

Anthony, Why consider it a trial when in one day you can update all the drivers on your computer? The license is not one hour or even one day, but six months. For a driver updater, that's plenty of time.

Jeff Wilson,

Not really, I need to keep my drivers up to date for years. Doesn't matter, ran it one time, had a critical failure that microsoft will notify me when they have come up with a fix for the issue, maybe in 6 months.............guess I am not going to need this. Drivers can be updated at any time, individually. Would have been nice to have one program handle that for me, but not the end of the world.

Free means free. I appreciate those software companies that mean it when they use GAOTD, and I try to patronize their other products. Companies that use deception, not so much.

Anthony,

Sorry about your critical failure. Hope you have a restore point.

Jeff Wilson, I agree. this isn't free IMHO so it shouldn't be here. I wont bother with it. Typical driver life cycle runs into years.

Anthony, don't you realise that you never need to update drivers.

Often video driver updates will lead to increased video performance, and sometimes storage driver updates will increase disk performance. However, other than that, there is often very little if any benefit gained by updating drivers.

You could use a computer for years, without ever installing any driver updates, and it would still run fine.

Also, you will be able to use Wise Driver Care as a limited free version after 6 months, or perhaps buy a license. Developers of quality software deserve to be supported.

Roger,

So now the argument for the "free" trial, is that I don't actually need this software at all, because you never need to update drivers?

You sold me, I don't want a software that I have to pay for that actually does not benefit me or my computer in any way, shape or form. In fact, I will start writing to all the manufacturers of chips, drives, video cards, every company under the sun, and tell them to stop making drivers, roger says we don't need them! WoooHoooo world, we are soon going to be free of worry people, thanks to roger insight and my crusade to end this madness once and for all!

Anthony, I never said "we don't need drivers." Of course drivers are needed for any devices you use with your computer.

However, once you have a driver installed, and it is working fine, then more often then not there, is little need (if any) to keep it updated. New drivers, often have very insignificant changes or fixes, and when this is the case, it means that you won't notice any difference when using the new driver. As well as that, just like for any software, sometimes new driver versions have bugs. As a result, sometimes new drivers will have issues, whereas the old drivers worked fine. As well as that, is that all driver update software will sometimes install incompatible drivers which won't work with your system. For example after updating touchpad drivers, your touchpad may no longer work. Or perhaps bluetooth will not work after updating blutetooth drivers. In rare cases, incompatible driver update will lead to Blue Screens of Death when booting Windows, preventing Windows from loading. Because Wise Driver Care, does an excellent job of finding the right drivers, such issues are much less likely to happen when using it than with some of the other driver update software.

In some cases, new drivers will increase device performance, add important new features or fix bugs. These, are worthwhile reasons to upgrade to the latest versions. However, more often then not, as I said, the changes are going to very insignificant, so you're not going to notice any difference at all when using the new driver vs the old one.

Because, it's usually very rare for new drivers to come with changelogs which list what changes or improvements the new drivers adds, usually there is no way to know if it really worth the trouble of updating the driver.

Personally, I use multiple driver update tools, on all of my computers. But, I'm PC technician, and know how to fix any issues which arise if they do. But, I do realise there's usually benefit gained from updating drivers, and for less experienced users, they are probably better off not updating drivers, as they may not know how to fix any issues with arise.

Roger,

So now I do need it, you are a contradiction personified.

Either way, there a plenty of driver tools out there, which are actually free, and don't use gimmicks to try and boost sales. If you bothered reading my comment, I clearly stated that giving us free software here, allows us to scrutinize a company as to whether we may want to look at their other offerings and support them that way. This is not even close to a free program, nor does it do any good to have such a limited window of usage. What if the OS was trial period only? That would really suck, right?

Anthony, personally I don't have an issue with the six month license. I wouldn't call it a gimmick considering it is clearly stated that is only a six month license. If you don't like 6 month licenses, that's up to you, but there's no need to complain when you are getting paid software for free. Having a six month license, gives you plenty of time to use a program, and if you do like, what's wrong with buying a license when the free license expires?

Also, you need to consider that most software that is available as giveaways is usually regularly offered as a giveaway on the various giveaway sites. So, quite probably there will be another giveaway of Wise Driver Care, before this 6 month license expires, so you could keep using it without paying.

I have no issue with buying software I find useful, and have purchased licenses for around 20 different driver update tools over the last 13 years.

"What if the OS was trial period only? That would really suck, right?"
That's something completely different. Windows is not a giveaway. You either pay for your Windows license or your PC manufacturer does.

Roger,

Which part of "give away" is not clear to you? This is NOT a give away, and based on the gimmick, which this is, I won't even bother looking at their other offerings. I am sure that you don't really care, cause you will just bill it to your business, not out of your pocket, in 6 months time. There are always free software by those not hell bent on just making a buck that actually want to help people that lack your skills, to keep their hardware safe. This might have been one of those offerings, but they decided to be indian givers. The fact that they were so upfront about it in the first place, baffles me as to why it even made it on this site.

Anyway, this is a boring conversation now, you can be happy all you like with this bait, I will eat elsewhere.

Anthony, I buy all my software out of my own pocket. It don't bill anyone.

It seems to me that you don't visit this site regularly, because, at the moment it fairly common for the giveaways to only come with a 6 month license. Perhaps extended trial, would be a better description , than giveaway.

But, considering that Wise Driver Care was available on another giveaway site, also with a six month license, I'm certain that before the 6 month trial expires, there will be another giveaway of this. So, if you were to keep an eye on the various giveaway sites like I do, you would be able to register it again with the next giveaway license, and keep doing so every time it is given away to keep extending the license.

"There are always free software by those not hell bent on just making a buck that actually want to help people that lack your skills, to keep their hardware safe."
Yes, but more often then not, the free software is not as good as paid alternatives. I love using free software, but, that is the reality. It's understandable, that a company that spends a lot of time developing software wants to make money to pay for the development costs.

Just like you, I don't like these "extended trials," and usually don't bother with them. But, in this case you should be able to keep registering it with trial licenses, to keep using it as the pro version for as long as you want.

joy, Mine did that. I cut off AVG Free Anti-Virus and then it worked on my Asus K54C laptop.

Hi Frank Meek. :-)

Wise Driver Care installer allows you to change the directory (I installed it in June, in D:\program files(x86)).

Frank Meek, if you go to the settings, you can choose between 21 different languages.

Hi David Hunt. :-)

Your firewall could be blocking the connection.

Richard Crowe, Try turning off your virus software before installing. I use AVG and have to do this alot with this giveaway site. Then just re-enable it

Richard Crowe, Download software from official website and activate using setup.exe in the folder from giveawayoftheday.com

Richard Crowe, Annoying isn't it, I just restart into safe mode and install there, it's a pain, but it works most of the time.

Laxative, there is a program DesktopOk, this program can store the layout of the desktop.
http://www.softwareok.com/?Download=DesktopOK
I did use such a program often, because I had to change often the resolution to 800*600 and back to 1024

Hi Laxative. :-)

It was beta in June 2017, maybe advertised by WiseCare365 free (and their other free tools).
I don't think it will be added to wise care 365.
I'm not sure if it has been tested on windows xp and vista (not in a lot of machines, by the way).

Laxative, if your resolution got changed, it has installed an incompatible video driver update. You can rollback the previous driver from Device Manager. You can Google how to do this.

Laxative, Didn't change any settings and didn't need to reboot, Windows 10 64bit, agree it's an excellent program.

Roger,
Thanks. I found how to do it in Lifewire but am told there is no earlier backup to roll back to.
Videos I have, work, but some sent by email do not.
why does the captcha have to have dimmed pictures?

Peter C1, "System Requirements:

Windows XP/ Vista/ 7/ 8/ 10 (x32/x64)"

nibo1978, You ARE a TOP PERSON, imho.

I decided to go to the webpage mentioned under the SysReq and sadly found NOTHiNG at all to advise me on the minimum requirements.

So your reply at least gives me something definite/definitive to go on ... I hope I can return the favour one day.

Peter C1, I don't think you have to worry about it. If you did, the author would specify. I have an old laptop with not super great screen size (1280x800) or memory (2 G) and it runs with no problems.

Roger, How about DRIVERMAX? So far it's the best update driver software I used, as it finds many more missing drivers than other similar programs can find.

Mario, Wise Driver Care often will find more driver update with Driver Max.

One issue with Driver Max, is that sometimes it installs unofficial tweaked video drivers, instead of the ones released by the video card manufacturer. While these drivers, are most likely safe to you, I prefer to use the original drivers.