[SOLVED] DDU's "Driver Easy" for installing and updating drivers

[gn842a]

I'd like some comments/thoughts about the "Driver Easy" utility sold by the folks who bring us DDU uninstaller, which is so well reputed in the custom build world. I read this review which is only a few weeks old and the reviewer says well this utility isn't good because you HAVE to install the drivers manually. But that's not what the folks at DDU say.

I confess that I have spent a lot of time working with installing drivers (sometimes over and over again pursuing the false diagnosis that I had a driver problem) these past few weeks and the appeal of a well reputed system that takes care of the process for me and would potentially relieve me of a lot of aggro. Of course I am nearing the end of my build process (I think) so maybe it is too late. But I wouldn't mind an on-board utility to run once every six months.

I know there is a certain machismo associated with going into safe mode and doing the whole driver thing but having been there and done that, the appeal of automating the process is great. There are more drivers than I keep track of. (I found out my monitor has its own drivers just recently--can't say it makes a whit of performance difference, but when I updated the monitor drivers it went from showing as a PnP generic monitor to a Dell U2312HM.)

Am also curious about how this software works on a brand new build. You upload windows, get Easy Driver, let it do its thing, done. That would be pretty sweet. And I think to myself: well if there's anyone in the biz who knows drivers it's DDU/Wagnardsoft.

Am I wrong?

thanks,
Greg N

 

[g-unit1111]

I'm not sure how much I would trust it, especially for self built machines. The one that's sold looks like junkware / malware and I would question the claim on "3,000,000+ users".

CNET has a similar utility that you can download for free but that looks like a demo version, but even that one only had a 3 1/2 star rating.

 

[gn842a]

Well I downloaded the free version and had it diagnose my drivers. If found half a dozen that needed updating. But when I went and cross checked those drivers on Win 10 DEVICES it said that the best drivers were already installed.

I don't know what to make of that. If you manually indicate you want a driver replaced or updated the process involves a reboot. That was more than I wanted to get into at that time so I left it at that.

If you pay thirty bucks for the "pro" you just click install drivers and it's fully automated. I have some concerns that it gets the drivers from Microsoft rather than latest and greatest from OEMs. --GN

 

[TJ Hooker]

Or just go to your motherboard's support page and download all required drivers from there. That + GPU drivers is all that is required the vast majority of the time.