DriverScanner 2013 Review

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Update 2013/05/08: We've contacted Uniblue and have finagled a generous 33% discount for DriverScanner 2013 for our readers (deal ends May 24, 2013). The discount link is at the end of the review; the discount is also enabled if you download the trial and purchase directly through the program. If you're in a hurry and know this software to be as useful as I do, you can go straight to the discount page by clicking here. Otherwise, please take a few minutes to read the review below, and then decide.

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Ever wonder why your PC gets balky, slows down, or fails to operate the way you want?

One of the most likely possibilities is that your computer is struggling with out-of-date, generic, or un-optimized software drivers.

How Drivers Can Affect Windows Performance and Stability

As you may know, a software driver (or quite simply, a "driver") is a special-purpose computer program written specifically to make a piece of computer hardware work with your computer.

For example: a printer, touchscreen or touchpad, mouse, scanner, fax, and other devices all need drivers for them to function within Microsoft Windows.

If your computer doesn't have the driver, the device won't work. If you install the wrong driver, the device will function erratically. The wrong driver can also cause your PC to become unresponsive, unreliable, and crash, resulting in a loss of data.

Modern PCs: Like A Cruise Ship's Engine Room

Down at the lower levels of your computer system are intricate linkages of these device drivers. Each device driver provides the necessary liaison between the computer and one of its hardware components.

It actually takes hundreds of physical components (memory locations, processor pathways, electrical power regulators, capacitors, switches, plus all the rest) and their drivers to make a computer go -- and all of them must work perfectly, in total harmony.

For simplicity, you can think of a computer's device drivers as the machinery in a cruise ship's engine room.

While the people on the top deck (that's you) are eating, drinking, and enjoying the "cruise ship's" facilities, the equipment down in the "engine room" is working hard to keep it all afloat.

When problems arise (with the drivers) in the "engine room," the ship's passengers start having to deal with no lights, no air conditioning, no hot food, and no way to call home for help!

It's a situation everyone wants to avoid. Now you can, with DriverScanner 2013!

Regularly Correcting and Updating Device Drivers is Vital

Ordinary software programs can check for their own updates, but not drivers. They require regular, detailed, external management, maintenance, and repair or replacement.

Within Windows operating systems, drivers regularly go out of date with no warnings or even detection. That means every Windows computer user runs the twin risks of performance problems and device driver errors -- every time they boot up their computer.

" Drivers can become outdated and possibly damaged to the point where they slow the system performance. " ~ Microsoft.com

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Manually Updating Drivers is Often Dangerous

Of course, you can manually check the status of each and every driver, and individually update those that need it. But this would be time consuming and tedious. With so many devices inside your PC, it could take hours to check every one by hand -- and that's if you are able to find the website and web page that has your driver available.

Sometimes a new driver you put in is damaged, or the wrong one, and causes your computer to start working worse then before. Now your only choice is to put back the driver you replaced, and begin again looking for the correct replacement.

Typically, device drivers are available from the device manufacturer. However, the proper driver is normally buried deep in the manufacturer's web site, one of literally hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of similar drivers for the various devices (and models) ever built by the manufacturer. It's a real pain to find and download the correct driver for your computer and its device.

Unfortunately, many of the driver pages are not optimized for search engines, and rarely ever get found by search engines.

Unless you know exactly where to go on the Internet to find a newer, updated driver, you can spend a long time looking for the one you want. Sometimes, you simply can't find the right one, resulting in a lot of frustration and wasted time.

Watch Out for Malicious Websites 'Offering' Drivers

There's another danger associated with doing your own driver updates: many third-party web sites pretend to offer the correct drivers, but don't. Clicking on the wrong page in search of a driver can lead you down a dangerous path and may even infect your PC with a virus.

Some websites pretending to offer device drivers do it only to collect your email address. When you get access to their sites by handing over your personal information, the driver you seek is not there, or it's out of date.

Many tricky sites also ask users to pay for access to the same software driver that is available for free from the manufacturer.

Even worse: search engines like Google and Bing are plagued with listings of malicious websites offering what appears to be legitimate drivers -- but instead trick you and infect your PC with a virus.

Thankfully, you no longer have to navigate this minefield or suffer with incorrect, or out of date drivers.

Uniblue DriverScanner 2013 Saves the Day

DriverScanner 2013 is a safe, automated, comprehensive driver update system that eliminates all the hassles, dangers, and worries of maintaining Windows drivers.

It takes inventory of all your system's drivers, then automatically updates the most critical ones. Within minutes, your computer is performing the way it was intended.

But that's not all. DriverScanner 2013 monitors your computer system, continuously searching for broken, incorrect, or out of date drivers, and instantly replacing them with the optimized drivers your computer system needs.

DriverScanner 2013 is a trusted, reliable, high performance product designed and built by Uniblue: a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. It's the same company that offers SpeedUpMyPC and RegistryBooster.

" If you feel that your computer may be unstable because of outdated system drivers, the safest way to update them would be with the DriverScanner utility. Trying to update drivers on your own is a long and possibly a computer crashing experience. " ~ Whatsabyte.com

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Using DriverScanner 2013 On Your PC

The interface of DriverScanner 2012 is clean and simple to use.

  • The Overview tab offers a speedometer-type dial to show the overall health of your computer's drivers.
     
  • A single button starts a new scan for outdated drivers.
     
  • It's extremely easy to set DriverScanner to run automatically as often as you wish.
     
  • The Driver Scan tab shows you the age of your outdated drivers, the results of previous scans, and a list of outdated drivers that DriverScanner 2013 is ready to update for you.
     
  • The Manage tab shows you the history of drivers you've replaced, with links to restore any drivers you wish you hadn't updated.
     
  • The Settings tab controls DriverScanner itself, letting you set the software to automatically start and scan whenever you want it to.
     
  • DriverScanner makes a copy of your computer's existing drivers before replacement, so any problems with updated drivers can be reversed immediately.

" So my advice is this: if you want to manage your drivers better, you need Uniblue's DriverScanner. It's inexpensive, easy to use, and performs its job admirably. " ~ Cooltoolawards.com

" Uniblue Driver Scanner ... [reduces] the drudgery of updating drivers. Overall it's a worthwhile tool.... " ~ PCWorld.com

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Benefits of Using DriverScanner 2013

Updating drivers ensures that your computer hardware runs at its very best. Proper driver maintenance and regular updates generally deliver important benefits, including:

  • Better hardware compatibility and reduced system conflicts.
     
  • Faster, smoother, better device performance.
     
  • Newest device capabilities with all features unlocked.
     
  • Better computer performance and stability.

DriverScanner 2013: What's New

  • Improved GUI and intuitive command structure makes the software easier to use.
     
  • Smaller application (faster to install and operate).
     
  • Improved and faster scan/update of drivers.
     
  • More frequently updated database delivers newest, highest quality drivers.
     
  • Better explanations, plus complete details on drivers.
     
  • Improved status monitor, reporting system, and automatic Live Updates messages.
     
  • Works on Windows Vista, Windows 7 and the newest Windows Version 8, with full 32- and 64-bit support.

DriverScanner 2013: Conclusion

To sum up, DriverScanner 2013 is a very powerful "set it and forget it" utility that makes sure your Windows computer system will never experience problems as a result of aged, generic, or broken device drivers.

DriverScanner 2013 is particularly useful because you will no longer have to think about your drivers and hunt down replacements: the software does it for you. Best of all, it's easy to use, totally comprehensive, and completely eliminates any risk of downloading a virus-infected or malicious driver file.

DriverScanner: Compatibility

DriverScanner 2013 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and the new Windows 8. It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

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