Driver Magician Lite V3.28    Suggested by Carl - Added on 17 Apr 2007 114KB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (750) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (13) - Post comment - Permalink

Posted comments:

 Gary: Driver Magician Lite will only back up, not restore, drivers. Driver Magician, available at the same site, restores drivers, but has a 15 day trial period. [2006-10-12 15:12]

 Haunted: Too bad actually, because it would've been really helpful with backups and things like that. However, there is always some scriptkiddie around who's selling cracks and patches for them [2006-10-12 23:59]

 Andrew Lee: Since the INF + driver files are copied to the backup folder (with the files for each device in its own named subfolder), you can simply specify a particular folder when Windows asks you for the driver disk. Granted this is not as convenient as whatever "Restore" feature the paid version provides, but it's still quite useful IMHO. [2006-10-13 06:17]

 Erind: Simply amazing... I never even thought of a program that would consolidate your drivers all into one place. Great idea! Takes a bit to copy all of the drivers, but that's ok. [2006-10-13 07:02]

 mdboyd: Erind, just as a hint, make sure you aren't backing up ALL of the drivers, just the ones marked in red. The others are included in the windows xp installation CD [2006-10-13 08:26]

 Chris L. Franklin: Why would any one pay for something like this, when theres a GPL version available ?

Website : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=176359 [2007-04-18 04:04]

 Xandub: Thanks Chris L. Franklin, just checked out Driver Backup on Sourceforge... It works, its free, its easy, its portable and its now on my USB :o)
Dont bother with Driver Magician Lite as it only does half a job and you have to pay for the other half!! [2007-08-02 09:09]

 Thor: Nice Tool. Saves a lot of time.
It's no fun, searching for my driver-disks/-CDs etc. ;) [2007-08-02 16:02]

 Michael: The problem with the Driver Backup! program on SourceForge is the .NET requirement, this kind of kills it's portability to me. [2007-08-08 06:12]

 Lupo73: version 3.34 available [2008-01-14 08:21]

 Bizgo: I also checked Driver Backup! but I can't see any Restore functionality. Am I blind? Tried Non-.Net version on windows vista. [2008-05-01 14:05]

 Boonie: The lite version does the back-up. But you can NOT install the drivers without the full program. I'm over to "driver backup" [2008-09-28 10:13]

 Dj: Great Work [2008-11-03 05:30]

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