Tag: DRIVERS

After reading a new post from Mozilla, it appears as though Google isn't the only browser maker having a hard time with outdated graphics drivers. As Mozilla inches closer and closer to the final release of Firefox 4 -- which, of course, packs hardware accelerated rendering kung fu -- the company's Benoit Jacob has posted a plea to its users. Please update your graphics drivers. Like Google, ...

Gamers and other enthusiasts know the importance of keeping their video card's drivers current, but it's not something the vast majority of the computing public pays any attention to. If the computer is running OK, there's no need to update drivers, right? As it turns out, there's a very good reason to update: your old driver might be causing your Web browser to crash excessively. That's ...

I was never a big fan of CNET's VersionTracker software -- and judging by the one-star rating on Download.com, I wasn't alone. Still, with more than 18 million downloads logged, the app was clearly popular, if not well-liked. Yesterday, however, marked the end of the VersionTracker era. The official Download.com page now sports a big, red alert that the program's 15-year run is over; it will ...

One thing DIYers (myself included) often forget to do prior to reformatting a system is to take a few minutes to make sure all of the necessary drivers for their hardware are at the ready. You pull the trigger on the format option only to realize that, oh crap, you didn't save that .zip file for your TV tuner card, and you'll have to go sift through support pages...again. Double Driver offers ...

It's not often that you find a decent commercial utility being given away for free. It's usually a marginally-useful app or a program for which there's a better (and often free!) alternative. Today, however, you can score Driver Magician at no charge from Giveaway of the Day. It's a very good driver backup, restore, and removal utility - and there aren't a ton of good free programs that offer ...

Double steroids? Really? Yes, really. If we're going to call Device Remover a "Device Manager alternative," the double is totally necessary. This is no sissy-boy device tree. Five tabs present you with a tree view, list view, drivers and services, list of drivers in memory, and active system processes and handles. You can also export or print a full list of your devices and search for a specific ...

I've been using DriverMax for a while, and it's a great tool - I included it in my 5 applications for a painless Windows reformat. One thing I don't like about it is that it's not portable and that the screens don't display properly on computers running at 800x600 or 640x480. Driver Backup! 2 is a nice alternative. While it doesn't have DriverMax's extra features (like driver updating), the ...

We love kick-ass programs that run from our flash drives and don't take up a ton of space - especially when they come at us with a truckload of useful features. CPUID's PC Wizard is a portable system analysis and benchmarking with tricks to spare. Apart from offering an incredible amount of information about the hardware and software in your computer (file associations, driver versions, hardware ...

Need to reinstall Windows but you misplaced your driver disks? Not sure you have everything you need? DriverMax has you covered. Backing up and reinstalling your drivers couldn't be easier. After installing DriverMax, go into Driver Operations and click on Export drivers. A list of all your installed drivers will be displayed and you can pick and choose which ones to export, or simply export ...

If you were an early adopter of Windows Vista, there's a pretty good chance you became familiar with one of Vista's coolest new features: an automatic crash reporting utility that will recommend solutions if and when they become available. Or to put it another way, if you tried running Windows Vista on many machines, there was a good chance your computer crashed. A lot. Even if the manufacturer ...

Figuring out if your PC's drivers are all up to date can be a bit of a hassle. You could go into the Windows Device Manager, find the appropriate hardware, select update driver and see if anything new comes up. But it would take forever to do this for every single driver you might want to update. On the other hand, you could run DriverView, a lightweight executable file that quickly scans your ...

I know, you rock the Linux and love it, but when you go to CompUSA (horror), it's nigh impossible to tell if the dazzling array of wireless doodads will rock your laptop... Gotta love that driver conundrum, huh? Well search no more. Actually, search more, since there's now a sort of centralized search tool for finding out what wireless cards are compatible with Linux. To say it's exhaustive is to ...