Once upon a time, the world and his dog was selling 'registry cleaners / registry optimizers'. Now that that fad has thankfully died out, said world and said dog have had to go find some other non-need to which expensive software can profitably cater.

Today's is a shining example of it, a six-month trial of rentalware, the subscription cost of which is noticeably whimsical: $8.95 for 30 days / $10.39 for 12 months / $14.51 for 2 years. Those are the developer's own figures; from whence the $39 price mentioned in this giveaway originates isn't clear, but perhaps it's some kind of guarantee of immortality.

Whatever the price, good luck to Innovative Solutions with this software, because competition in this particular software sector is becoming as frantic as it once was with registry cleaners -- and because two other considerations really do need to be borne in mind by any computer user:

(1) If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If your computer's running happily, then it would much prefer that you left it alone. If, however, it isn't happy with life, and you feel you're competent enough to intervene, then:

(2) AMD drivers:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/auto-detect-tool

Intel drivers:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

Nvidia drivers:
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Realtek drivers:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/Default.aspx

Windows 7 OS:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/15054/windows-7-automatically-get-recommended-drivers-updates-hardware

(Those with a different OS version should make their own arrangements.)

HP drivers:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c00007682

Dell drivers:
http://www.dell.com/support/article/uk/en/ukbsdt1/SLN284433/what-is-bios-and-how-to-update-the-bios-on-your-dell-system?lang=EN

And so on . . .

Thanks, GOTD, and thanks, Innovative. But no thanks.

MikeR  –  7 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+59)

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A big boo boo, the set up file tried to install some sort of antivirus I did not want. Also now that I have got this installed, it says update mandatory as the current version is obsolete

Kiran  –  7 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+58)

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If you do not have any problems, do not update drivers. If you have, please do yourself a favor and create system restore point before updating drivers.

ABMM  –  7 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+57)

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DO NOT INSTALL THIS SOFTWARE - after updating 19 drivers, which another software driver program had done the day before but this program said were out of date, this program changed my mouse to a digitally unsigned driver. That means - IT DOES NOT WORK!!! Talk about a pain in the neck to use the keyboard to go to the mouse driver program in Control Panel and change the driver to get my mouse to work again. The digitally unsigned driver tells me that the site this software is using, at least for the mouse driver, is not an approved site with a Microsoft digital signature so it will function. So far, I haven't experienced any other issues but that one was a pain. So user beware.

Dennis W. Comito  –  7 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+41)

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Well I took the plunge and downloaded and installed. It detected 12 outdated drivers which my DriverBooster pro did not detect. So dummy me, I waited the entire time while this program downloaded and installed all the drivers it claimed I needed. Upon restarting, I lost my sounds. So I immediately pulled this program back up and used the system restore. I now have my sounds back.

mardel  –  7 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+37)

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