Giveaway of the Day - Driver Magician

[Ashwin]

Developer's description:

Driver Magician offers a professional solution for device drivers backup, restoration, update and removal in Windows operating system. It identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore all the “saved” drivers just as if you had the original driver diskettes in your hands.

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Key features:

Back up device drivers of your computer in four modes.
Restore device drivers from backup in one mouse click.
Update device drivers of your PC to improve system performance and stability.
Uninstall device drivers.
Detect unknown devices.
Clone all drivers to an auto-setup package (.EXE), so you can restore drivers without installing Driver Magician.

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[Samuel]

Hope this won't mess up with drivers like Uniblue did .

[Ashwin]

Hope this won't mess up with drivers like Uniblue did .

I am gonna use this just to backup drivers

[Jeremy]

Read some of the comments posted by users on GOTD about the software and decide for yourself on this one. Seems some people had a lot of problems while other seemed to be happy with it. My personal opinion is if you can manually update your drivers then do it that way. Doing it manually insures you know exactly what driver you are downloading and for what. Sometimes driver software up-daters can misidentify hardware etc. and download incorrect or outdated drivers. If you do use a program like this, it might be a good idea to do a scan for outdated drivers and then if the program shows updated drivers, manually check on the drivers it found and download and install them yourself to know for sure that they are indeed the correct ones.