Driver Robot

You plug your printer in and get the pop up that says your device is not recognized, what do you do now? Driver Robot is a driver updater for Windows designed for exactly this situation. Utilizing a database of over 100,000 entries from a broad panorama of devices, it looks up drivers for most consumer hardware. Driver Robot scans the hardware and identifies the corresponding driver update and installs it for you, so you never have to fiddle with the manual process of hunting the correct driver down and reinstalling it. According to the developer, the database is kept current by driver spiders that search the web around the clock, and the driver files are mirrored, so a driver can be downloaded even when the manufacturer's site is unavailable. You can even export the hardware scan and identified configurations from a computer that is offline with the Driver Robot Exporter and then subsequently take it and run it on a computer that is online. You then just download the respective drivers that were found for the offline computer, and you have your drivers. Driver Robot is shareware from Blitware Technology Inc.: the trial scans the system, while downloading drivers requires a paid licence. The program is no longer developed and its official website is offline.

Features:

• Includes drivers for the majority of mainstream printers
• Includes drivers for video cards, including Windows XP and Windows Vista drivers
• Includes drivers for Motherboards
• Includes drivers for webcams from many different manufacturers
• Includes drivers for Ethernet and wireless network adapters
• Includes drivers for FireWire devices
• Includes drivers for Universal Serial Bus controller devices
• Includes drivers for chipsets, sound cards and AC97 audio devices
• Includes drivers for CD and DVD drives
• Includes drivers for the majority of pointing devices
• Includes drivers for keyboards
• Includes drivers for Bluetooth adapters and routers
• Offline driver analysis with the Driver Robot Exporter
• Mirrored driver downloads that do not depend on the manufacturer's website

Finds matching drivers for your hardware and installs them without manual searching on manufacturer websites