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Having Driver Issues?

Sep 5, 2015 8:36PM PDT

I recently noodled my laptop and dreaded having to search the internet for all my drivers again to finally make my device manager look normal. I found a great app that will scan your computer and download all the necessary drivers and install them. I checked the file for with AV and it is clean. Cant believe this app is free. check it out.

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Post was last edited on September 5, 2015 9:14 PM PDT

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it is one of the worse apps to use
Sep 5, 2015 8:49PM PDT

driver apps are some of the worse apps to use especially with oem computers. It is always best to get the drivers from the oem manufacturer and not from some run of the mill site the different driver apps uses. a lot of times oem manufacturers have had modifications made to their hardware so that they can be more compatible and cheaper. The hardware may still have the same model number as the original but not the same driver. the driver app will not always catch it so it installs the wrong driver.

especially do not use driver apps recommended by a spammer. If it have to be spammed in order to try to get users, there must be something wrong with it.

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2 strikes on this one.
Sep 5, 2015 9:15PM PDT

1st this is the worst way to get drivers. 2nd is the link lead to a file sharing site which could hold a trojan or worse.

You may be happy with that app, but this post has a few strikes against it.