Visit DriverPack Solution. Visit Download. Visit Soft Visit Softpedia. Visit NoDevice. Visit SoftwareDriverDownload. Visit Driver Scape. Know of Another Driver Download Website? If I have, or if any of the information about one of these driver sites needs updated, please let me know. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Email Address Sign up There was an error. Please try again. You're in! Thanks for signing up. There was an error. Tell us why! More from Lifewire.
Updating Drivers in Windows 7 Tutorial. One feature that we liked was that it creates a restore point before installing drivers. Enabling the system to be restored more easily, should the new drivers cause a problem.
ReviverSoft claims that its driver database contains over 10 million files. Whatever the exact truth, its driver database is very comprehensive.
As the title suggests, this is the twentieth version of Driver Genius , by Avanquest Software. What Avanquest offers is a small but effective tool that manages driver updates on the PC that tracks more than a million hardware drivers to make sure that the right ones are on your computer. The level of user intervention is very low, as this solution is practically fire-and-forget. Once installed, the application scans the drivers installed and matches these against a driver versioning database, and then downloads and installs the latest ones.
And, it notifies you of new driver releases. What makes this one stands out is that it will bundle all the drivers into an executable file for you, a facility that accelerates the reinstalling of a system dramatically. This Platinum release has a few extras, including a system booster that tweaks a system for greater performance and another tool that optimizes SSDs.
IObit is a software house that has created several enhancement and optimisation products that includes Driver Booster in its roster. The current version supports Windows 10,8. Where this product deviates from the norm in driver support applications is that the free version will update drivers, but only two a day.
There are a lot of sites out there with similar names and URLs. Nirsoft is a freeware utility site that was created and currently run by a guy named Nir Sofer. Each utility is completely free and usually very tiny in size. For example, some of the most popular utilities on the site are the password viewers, which will show you passwords stored on your computer, in your browser, etc.
More than just a free software download site, Ninite is also a package management system. Using it as a package management system, Ninite can be used to automate the installation of your favorite software and keep it up to date, with just one click. This is likely the safest site on the list. The number of free apps is limited. Even older than FileHippo, Softpedia has been a software download staple since Softpedia hosts a lot of free downloads on their own physical servers.
That means they have even more to gain from making sure the apps are safe. Offering some of the most well-known Windows freeware in an easy to read, easy to search site, Download Crew should be on your list. Download Crew has been around for over 10 years, boasts almost , members, and over 33 million downloads. Its sister site is Download Crew Store , where you can get deeply discounted proprietary software. Your friends are coming over tomorrow night for a watching party, so you decide to download the episode illegally -- just this once -- to save your shindig.
Everything's going well until you try to use your computer after the download. You get weird pop-ups; programs that normally open up instantly are acting sluggish, and then your whole computer crashes.
Chances are you picked up some malware -- a computer virus , spyware, or other damaging software -- along with Tyrion Lannister's latest scheme. How can you tell if you're opening up a legit download site or if the file you grabbed is packed with viruses? The short answer is that you can rarely be percent certain a download itself is OK.
Think of peer to peer sites as big locker rooms: the site provides a place for individuals to share files, and the site owners don't monitor each file that a user uploads. Sure, the room itself could have hazards, but even at a reputable gym, the owner can't control what customers are keeping in every locker.
If you want a truly safe download, you need to find not only a trustworthy site but remember that each file you download could contain malware. Downloading files isn't the only way to get malware on your machine, though. Sometimes just loading a website can expose your computer to malicious software [source: Google]. This is sometimes called a "drive by download," because it happens without you doing anything but loading the website [source: Malware Prevention]. That means that before you download a thing, you should look for a trusted file-sharing site.
Here are other some signals that should give you pause before you download:. Bad design alone doesn't make a website malicious, but here are some cues that you might want to navigate away.
If you're bombarded with flashing ads and pop-ups, and the focus of the site is to advertise and not to provide content, beware! Pop-up ads on a Web site are annoying, but chances are they're not hurting your computer, unless the site serves up so many that your computer slows down dealing with all of those new browser windows.
The sort of pop-up that should send up a red flag, though, is any dialog box that appears when you first pull up the site, before you've tried to actively download anything.
If you load a download site and a dialog box -- a pop up box with a message or warning and the option to click either "OK" or "cancel" -- appears, do not click OK!
You could be giving permission to install something — which could be malware. Instead, close the website immediately [source: Malware Prevention ]. There are some pop-up ads that masquerade as these dialog boxes, and these external ads don't necessarily mean the download site is malicious. These ads look like mini browser windows and may appear without the address bar at the top.
A real dialog box will just contain the message and the OK and Cancel buttons. If you're going to be downloading from any file-sharing site, you should also scan your computer regularly for viruses with anti-virus software like McAfee or Norton Anti-Virus.
You should also scan the files you've downloaded to make sure they don't contain anything dangerous to your computer [source: University of Rochester].
Not all download sites are peer to peer sharing sites. Peer to peer file sharing is the locker room scenario we talked about earlier.
0コメント