Replace old drivers before they can cause a crash
Monday, March 05, 2007
Craig Crossman
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
A driver is a small piece of software that controls hardware on your computer, usually referred to as devices
Every device, whether a printer, disk drive, keyboard or even the Wi-Fi hardware inside your laptop, must have a driver.
Many drivers, such as the keyboard driver, come with the operating system. That’s a good thing, because you’d be hard pressed if your computer’s keyboard didn’t function, so you can be fairly confident that the driver for it is already there.
For other devices, however, you might need to load a new driver when you connect the device to your computer.
But how can one keep up with the thousands of drivers and be assured that the ones you have are the latest versions?
That sounds like a job for Driver Agent.
Driver Agent (www.driveragent.com) is a Web site that can examine all of your computer’s device drivers in just a few moments.
Just log in, and Driver Agent will locate and then compare the version numbers of all your drivers to its database of well over 100,000 device driver updates.
After the examination, Driver Agent will display a screen of the drivers it found along with a checklist of which ones are current and which ones need to be updated.
After seeing the results, you can choose to open a Driver Agent subscription.
After you’re a member, you can instruct Driver Agent to automatically update any driver that needs updating, all from the Driver Agent Web site.
Joining Driver Agent requires a one-year subscription of $29.95.
This fee entitles you to unlimited use for all of your computers.
Defend yourself from the wrong driver with Driver Agent.
It’s the only way to compute.
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