I have come across a site that does free PC checkups for you on your drivers. Now, ordinarily, I say stay a million gigabytes away from these sites but this one came recommended to me. So I have had a nosey around. Its a site called My Config but for a reason I can’t figure out, its domain is called ma-config.com??? Anyway, you need something like this to get inside your PC and check that the drivers and hardware are all...

I have mentioned Driver Magician before on this blog. I use it a lot in order to identify unknown hardware and also to backup my currently installed drivers. Its a good piece of software to have on a USB key and when you friends need you to come to the rescue. GOTD are giving this away for free today. Grab it whilst you can, as you only have 20 hours left. Driver Magician offers a professional solution for device drivers backup,...

Do you constantly worry that your device drivers are out of date? Oh wait….that’s just me as a system admin, I worry and check my devices constantly. Network cards, SCSI cards and much much more. Now using a little freeware application called Device Doctor, I can update drivers a little more efficiently and for free. We should probably start off with what a device driver is and when you need to load drivers. Drivers are needed for...