Review by Michael E. Callahan aka Dr. File Finder
Driver Genius Professional Edition 2005, by Driver-Soft, is a program that caught my eye because it's fairly unique. There are many programs that will backup your computer, but this program focuses specifically on device drivers. Device drivers are files that tell a device like a printer, modem, scanner and so on, how to work. Many computer users don't realize the importance of device drivers or of keeping the ones on your computer up-to-date.
Driver Genius Professional Edition 2005 is really slick in the way it works. To begin with, it not only manages all of your device drivers, but it can also perform diagnostics on your computer. Fire it up and it can backup all of your device drivers. Another neat feature is that it can go out and look for updates of your existing device drivers. That's a great way to keep all your devices running at their best. The program also has the ability to not only backup all of your device drivers, but to put them in a self-extracting EXE file. Some of you may say "So what?" Well, here's what. If you should have a crash and have to reinstall everything on your computer, you might have to search for floppy disks and CDs that have the device drivers. But with a a self-extracting EXE that contains all your device drivers, you can restore them all with just a couple of mouse clicks. Very cool!
Driver Genius Professional Edition 2005 is designed to do a task and to do it well, and I'd say it succeeds. The company keeps an online database of device drivers for video cards, modems, motherboards, network cards, cameras and lots more. In testing it out it even found a device driver for me that previously I couldn't find. Impressive. This is the kind of program that can help you to keep your computer running smoothly and at peak performance. Very nicely done -- you owe it to yourself to give it a try, I recommend it!
(Reviews provided by Tucows)
02/19/2008
Dr. File Finder 
