How to update your drivers with Driver Detective

With its database of more than 15 million drivers, Driver Detective makes it drop-dead easy to update your drivers.

Here’s how you do it…

Step 1 — Create a system restore point

This step is optional … but highly recommended.

If a new driver doesn’t work as expected, you can revert to your previous settings with a few mouse clicks.

Start Driver Detective and click Scan Now.

It only took 11 seconds to scan my computer, so you shouldn’t have to wait long.

To make the scan results easier to read you can view just the out of date drivers. Click the dropdown menu and select out of date.

Choose a driver to update and click the floppy disc icon to download the updated version.

I’m going to update my keyboard driver.

Some driver files can be huge, so it may take a few minutes to download your new driver.

Click Open once your driver has downloaded.

Driver Detective will now launch the driver’s installer, or…

If the driver is zipped (compressed or archived) it will launch your unzip utility.

After the driver’s unzipped, double click on the installer to install it.

(Check out my resources page if you don’t have an unzip utility.)

If you download a driver but don’t install it immediately, you can install it at a later time by clicking History on the main menu.

Just click on the driver name and click Open to install it.

Restart your computer when prompted. Or continue to install more drivers. It’s up to you.

And that’s it. Done.

Please use the comments form below or contact me if you have any questions about using Driver Detective.

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