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Softpedia Editor's Review for Device Doctor

EDITOR'S RATING:

An easy to use utility that automatically updates hardware drivers.
Written by Bogdan Popa on March 26th, 2012

Downloading, installing and updating drivers is quite a risky job unless you're a more experienced user, that's for sure.

And that's exactly the kind of issue Device Doctor tries to tackle, offering a user-friendly approach to make working with hardware drivers a breeze.

The application has been designed with a single goal in mind: allow users to easily download and install new drivers for every single piece of hardware hidden underneath their PC cases.

And it does that with ease, mostly thanks to a straightforward interface that automatically scans the existing hardware and lets users pick the drivers to update. Device Doctor downloads and installs new packages regardless of how many devices you pick, so it can be used for updating one or multiple items at the same time.

What's more, thanks to its rather basic settings screen the application can also initiate a scan at system startup and detect if any driver update is available automatically. Plus, you can set up scheduled scans, either daily, weekly or on specific days.

While everything sounds like milk and honey, it's not, and Device Doctor lacks some critical features that could play a key role in such an application.

For example, it doesn't create a restore point or a backup to make sure everything is fine after updating the drivers, so you need to perform the whole task manually every time. Which is quite comfortable when setting up scheduled scans.

All in all, Device Doctor is indeed a handy piece of software but, as you can see, there are still some areas to be improved here and there. It does what it says though and works like a charm on all Windows versions.

Read an in-depth analysis in our professional review for Device Doctor
Device Doctor description

Here are some key features of "Device Doctor":

Device Driver Database:
· Provides drivers for most computer hardware and device manufacturers. More than 3 terabytes (3,000 GB) of drivers currently in the database. We cache all drivers so downloads are quick and work every time
· Fast hardware scan takes mere seconds

Consistent Updating:
· Constantly updated to include new driver versions as soon as released
· Every driver is human reviewed using specialized compatibility tools
· Learns from other users as it recommends better drivers every day
· Provides device names for unknown devices before updating drivers

Can be used offline:
· Scan results are saved so you can move them to a connected computer and download there
· Updates WHQL (Microsoft certified) and non-WHQL drivers

Requirements:

· 10 MB Available Hard Drive Space

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Wrapped installer and EXE with new security certificate
· Improved the way certain system devices are detected
· Changed the way unknown GUID devices are handled
· Many more drivers added to the database

Users are advised to pay attention while installing this ad-supported application:

· Offers to download or install software or components (PC Speed Maximizer) that the program does not require to fully function
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