Driver Easy
It scans your computer, tells you what drivers are missing or outdated, then updates them all, in one go. All you have to do is click Update All button, and all drivers will be downloaded and installed automatically.
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Categories
OS & Utilities • System & Hardware • Backup & SyncPlatform details
Windows: .NET Framework 2.0
Online: Internet Explorer requires .NET Framework 2.0 and Firefox needs Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant.
Tags
- driver-updater
- update-drivers
- driver-uninstaller
- Driver Management
There is no actual list of drivers or sites from which this program downloads. This makes it very difficult to trust. Then there is the speed, the very slow speed that the FREE users have to deal with. But no worries, you are spammed to upgrade to the pro version at every turn, even opens an unwanted web page after installation (of the program, not the driver, because it does not install the drivers for you). And the most annoying thing is, in the FREE version, you have to manually install every driver, yes, only the paid version does in automatically.
It may have potential, for it's simplicity and list of drivers (maybe?), but all the rest make it hard to trust.
To bad it comes recommended from DDU.
Is this safe/trustable/reliable to use?
I'd rather have software that tells me there's a new driver and gives a link to the official fabricant website to download it from the official site. I don't know where the drivers are from and if that's trustable.
The software seems to do a good job tho :-)
I ran the application in a sandbox and I did not observe any suspicious behavior. That said, VirusTotal indicates that "Trojan.JS.Redirector.PU" was active at the download URL.
This could very easily be a false positive, but be watchful nonetheless.
Reply written over 8 years ago
DriverEasy detected more drivers than SlimDrivers. So I prefer DriverEasy about SlimDrivers. After Slimdrivers had updated all drivers on Vista Business 64bit und reported all drivers to be actual and OK, there remained an "Other USB-device" not working and yellow-marked:
After "optimizing" all drivers with SlimDrivers DriverEasy reported 2 missing and 23 outdated drivers.
My Hauppauge WinTV USB Card "Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900H 64bit (66xxx)" did not work with the drivers from SlimDrivers, because the drivers for this USB 3.0-Card could not be installed:
Only with the DriverEasy-Updates I could use the "Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900H 64bit (66xxx)" which has the drivers Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Card as a precondition.
Otherwise DriverEasy wanted to install the V7-drivers for "Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900H 64bit (66xxx)"-USB-device, without asking. I wanted to keep the V6-version, because VTPlus does not work with WinTV V7. In this point SlimDrivers had the better behaviour.
GARBAGE!!!
This is nothing but a tease to get you to pay for what you can get for free elsewhere!
The "Free" version is deliberately crippled and useless!
Save yourself the trouble!
GARBAGE!!!
This is nothing but a tease to get you to pay for what you can get for free elsewhere!
The "Free" version is deliberately crippled and useless!
Save yourself the trouble!