Windows inclina - cómo automáticamente a la reserva o pone al día los drivers de dispositivo de su computadora

Fijado el 31 de marzo de 2007 en 7:21 P.M.

Un driver de dispositivo es un pedazo del software que dice el sistema operativo (Windows XP, Windows Vista, etc) cómo comunicarse con un pedazo de hardware. Por ejemplo, Windows XP está instalado en diverso hardware dependiendo de si la computadora es hecha por HP, Dell, Sony, el etc y tan para que Windows a trabajar con todo el hardware, él necesita un pedazo del software que le dice qué comandos puede dar y qué clase de respuestas recibirá detrás. Es muy importante poner al día continuamente sus drivers de dispositivo porque las instrucciones no son a veces bien definidas o el sistema operativo no los reconoce y ése es cuando usted termina para arriba con la pantalla azul de la muerte o la computadora se estrella.

Y es también una buena idea tener una reserva de todos sus conductores apenas en caso de que usted tiene que cambiar formato su computadora o porque usted no tiene su CD original del restore que vino con su OS. ¡También, si usted ha puesto al día a muchos de los conductores después de que usted comprara su computadora, usted no desea tener que invertir de nuevo a los conductores en el CD original de todos modos porque son viejos!

Iba al principio a escribir un poste sobre a cómo usted puede poner al día sus conductores de se (y a que haga en otro poste), pero para esa gente que no desea ir descargar a porciones de conductores o no entiende cómo a hágalo, hay el software que puede automáticamente reserva y poner al día sus drivers de dispositivo. First I’ll mention a free software that backups your drivers and allows you to restore them, but unfortunately does not have an update feature. The automatic update feature is only in the paid applications.

DriverMax for Windows Vista and Windows XP is a free program (you will have to register though otherwise you get a splash screen, but registration is free) that takes care of making sure you drivers are backed up. It’s a small piece of software and backs up drivers fairly quickly. It found all of my drivers and even ones I didn’t know I had, so I felt confident that it got everything.

Click Export Drivers and the program will first find all of your drivers and give you a list that you can review. My list was quite long and I checked it to make sure it had found everything and it did!

Click the Select All button and click Next. Choose a location for your driver file and then save this file somewhere off your computer. You can choose to create folders for each driver or create a zip file. The process takes a little while because of the large number of drivers, but it gives you a progress bar. The file was only about 20MB, 40MB uncompressed.

There are also some software apps that backup, restore and automatically update your drivers. These might be worth the small to fee since updating the drivers is the most important aspect to maintaining a smooth running computer.

Here are some of the sites:

1. Driver Magician - Only and it has a built in database of drivers that is updated through an Internet connection. Nice feature is that you can create an .exe file of your drivers, so that you can re-install them without having to install Driver Magician.

2. My Drivers - Does about the same thing, but is . Has over 58,000 drivers in database. Also backups some other useful stuff like Outlook, Outlook Express, and your IE Favorites. It also has a driver compatibility test before it installs a driver, thus reducing the risk of computer failure after a driver update.

These two seem to be the best at the current moment and definitely will give you more options than Driver Max for a small price! Let me know if you have any other suggestions!

Source: http://drivers-update.qarchive.org/

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