Driver Magician Lite v3.92
Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013 Change history
- 4MB (uncompressed)
- Suggested by Carl
Driver Magician Lite identifies all the hardware in your system, extracts the associated drivers and backs them up to a location of your choice. Later, when you need to reinstall/upgrade Windows, you can restore all the saved drivers just as if you had the original driver diskettes in your hands. This is especially useful if you inherited an old machine or bought a white box system and did not receive all the original driver discs.
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| System Requirements: | Win98 / WinME / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
| Writes settings to: | Windows registry. It remembers the folder that you last select to write the backup files to, which does not affect portability. |
| Dependencies: | MSVBVM60.DLL MSCOMCTL.OCX |
| Stealth: ? | No |
| License: | Freeware |
| How to extract: | Download the portable ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Driver Magician Lite.exe. |
16 comments on Driver Magician Lite
Haunted
2006-10-12 23:59
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
Andrew Lee
2006-10-13 06:17
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.
Erind
2006-10-13 07:02
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.
mdboyd
2006-10-13 08:26
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
Chris L. Franklin
2007-04-18 04:04
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
Xandub
2007-08-02 09:09
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!!
Thor
2007-08-02 16:02
Nice Tool. Saves a lot of time.
It's no fun, searching for my driver-disks/-CDs etc. ;)
Michael
2007-08-08 06:12
The problem with the Driver Backup! program on SourceForge is the .NET requirement, this kind of kills it's portability to me.
Lupo73
2008-01-14 08:21
version 3.34 available
Bizgo
2008-05-01 14:05
I also checked Driver Backup! but I can't see any Restore functionality. Am I blind? Tried Non-.Net version on windows vista.
Boonie
2008-09-28 10:13
The lite version does the back-up. But you can NOT install the drivers without the full program. I'm over to "driver backup"
Midas
2012-03-09 15:00
Not trying to revive this dormant entry, but... everyone complaining about a lacking restore option, please, do READ Andrew Lee comment!
V3.28
juvera
2012-06-23 23:29
There is an update: v.3.96
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/System/Backup-and-Recovery/Windows-Portable-Applications-Portable-Driver-Magician-Lite.shtml
V3.92
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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.