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Driver Magician - Windows Drivers Update and Backup

Posted on 21 November 2008 by D.Williams

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Why this is cool? Because Microsoft Windows Vista Update does not know of or have sources for everything you need to keep your drivers up to date.

Why this isn’t cool: I’ve got Windows Vista Ultimate and it was expensive. I didn’t buy Windows Vista Average or Retarded ‘editions’. Microsoft should have built this into their update system.

I’ve just discovered a utility called Driver Magician. It’s not free, but you should try it out at least once.

The idea is that it searches your computer’s hardware for all the chips and devices that live inside it and makes a list. It then uses that list to check the vendors websites for all those parts to see if they have an updated version.

This showed me a lot of little updates that my computer needed. I use Windows Update regularly and it made no mention of the items that Driver Magician found.

My computer is now a little bit faster and definitely more stable. In fact I am grossly overclocking it right now and it’s still stable.

The other important function of Driver Magician is BACKING UP YOUR DRIVERS. It will actually automatically backup all your device drivers and allow you to restore them should some future update break them.

It will also find unknown devices and help to determine what they actually are and where to get a driver for them.

Summary: Essential Support Toolbox Item. My drivers are now up to date and I got a lot more system stability and overclock capability.