Danny,
A good review from Smart Computing on TSSW's Driver Agent:
Cruise Control Your Drivers
smartcomputing.com
Using Driver Agent’s slick, Web-based interface, you’ll get an in-depth snapshot of your driver environment, which will point out the drivers you need to update.
Updating your hardware drivers on a regular basis can help your devices run smoothly and stay compatible with Windows and other software. But scouring the Web for drivers can be a difficult task, especially if your system uses devices made by obscure manufacturers.
But TouchStone Software offers a potential solution to updating drivers with its Driver Agent service (www.driveragent.com), which scans your system and provides instant access to thousands of the most recent drivers for a one-time $29.95 membership fee. We gave the service a test drive and came away impressed with its speed and depth.
After installing an ActiveX control, you can perform a system scan with the click of a button and wait only a few moments for results. These results display as a list of all your devices, along with a pie graph that shows the percentage of “good” drivers and “bad” drivers. In the list, bad (most likely, outdated) drivers are accompanied by a disk icon that leads directly to a download page featuring the latest drivers for the device. You also can click the device listings to see all the available drivers for the devices, but these listings occasionally contain beta versions of drivers, which could cause problems if you decide to try them.
If you need a one-stop shop for device drivers, DriverScan is easy to use and thorough, but be sure to use the recommended drivers if you’re not prepared to deal with problems resulting from beta or other experimental versions.
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