pctechguide.com

  • Home
  • Guides
  • Tutorials
  • Articles
  • Reviews
  • Glossary
  • Contact

Driver Genius Professional Review

Driver Genius Review[starreviewmulti id=6 tpl=20]

PROS: Very easy to use and install.

CONS: This product does occasionally detect a false out-of-date driver, but not nearly as often as other driver software.

OVERVIEW: Driver Genius was designed with all users in mind, regardless of their experience with computer hardware and software. It has a lot of options, but they are user friendly and you can make all the choices yourself.

Driver Genius Professional Review

Company: Avanquest

Release Date: January 10th, 2011

Supported OS: Windows XP, 2003 Server, Vista, 7, 2008 Server (Supports all Windows 32 and 64 bit versions)

Price: $29.95 per 1 license

What It Does:

Driver Genius is an all-in-one device driver manager that searches for the most up-to-date drivers for your computer. It also allows you to backup, restore and uninstall drivers.

Installation:

The installation was successful with no issues.

Details:

After starting Driver Genius, if the program is unregistered, the following screen is shown. If Driver Genius is registered, the “Start Scan” button appears on the main screen.

driver genius

Once started, the initial scan of any installed hardware is completed within less than two minutes. I would imagine that this is about how long it takes on most other systems, unless there are several dozen additional, non-local devices attached to the computer.

driver genius

Once the initial scan is completed, the user is then informed what out-of-date drivers have been detected on the system. Even though the device drivers in question aren’t really out of date, we’ll choose to download them regardless of whether or not they will actually be installed later.

driver genius

From here, the user can choose to download the drivers individually or all at once. Clicking the information link at the bottom titled “View driver update details” will open a web page for the selected driver. The page contains various details regarding the driver.

driver genius

I chose to download both drivers to see what happens. Driver Genius shows the number of drivers in said packages, along with their status, download percentage, and file size.

driver genius

After the download is complete, the user can choose which driver to install at their own perusal.

driver genius

Once the driver is downloaded and the user installs it, the contents are automatically extracted. This can take anywhere from around a minute or two to several minutes. The Intel Chipset Device Software took a while to extract, however, the installation package was nearly 100MB in size and covered around a dozen different flavors of the windows operating system. From start to finish, this is what one should expect to experience when updating a driver using Driver Genius. Next on the list is to see all of the options on the left-hand side of the screen.

driver genius

Selecting “Restore Drivers” shows a screen that lets the user either choose to restore the drivers from a previous backup, or to browse a certain location of where the backup might be located.

driver genius

Choosing the “Update Drivers” option allows a more customized selection of which drivers to download for each particular operating system. This would come in quite handy if the user has two or more installs of Windows that require different drivers from one another.

driver genius

Selecting the “My Downloads” category simply shows which device driver packages were downloaded and/or installed.

driver genius

The “Options” menu is designed to change various features of how Driver Genius operates. These range from compression schemes to internet connection and download options to scheduling system scans.

driver genius

Ease Of Use:

Driver Genius was very easy to use, and had minimal effect on system performance, even during peak processing times.

Summary

Driver Genius has a feel to it that’s designed for all users in mind, regardless of their experience with computer hardware and software. I also found that Driver Genius seemed to generate a lot less false positive “out-of-date” detections than Driver Detective. The reasons   for this are varied, but I felt that Driver Genius had a much smoother feel to it.

Filed Under: Driver Software Tagged With: driver genius professional, driver genius professional review, driver genius professional software, rate driver genius professional

Latest Articles

Hard Disk PLEDM

Notwithstanding the various candidates for the hard disk technology for the next millennium, it could be that the future of hard disks doesn't lie in mechanical storage systems at all. Developments in memory technology could mean that … [Read More...]

Digital Video Television Sound

The standard sound format for European digital television comes in the form of MPEG-2 Stereo. This system can carry two channels of CD quality digital audio. The quality of audio this delivers is little different to that possible using the NICAM Stereo Audio system for digital stereo sound with used … [Read More...]

Handheld Organizer origins

The term handheld computer has been applied to a wide range of portable electronic devices over the years. Its origins can reasonably be traced back to the handheld electronic calculators which first emerged in the early 1970s. These were to lead to devices which boasted more than the usuals … [Read More...]

20 Cool Creative Commons Photographs About the Future of AI

AI technology is starting to have a huge impact on our lives. The market value for AI is estimated to have been worth $279.22 billion in 2024 and it … [Read More...]

13 Impressive Stats on the Future of AI

AI technology is starting to become much more important in our everyday lives. Many businesses are using it as well. While he has created a lot of … [Read More...]

Graphic Designers on Reddit Share their Views of AI

There are clearly a lot of positive things about AI. However, it is not a good thing for everyone. One of the things that many people are worried … [Read More...]

Redditors Talk About the Impact of AI on Freelance Writers

AI technology has had a huge impact on our lives. A 2023 survey by Pew Research found that 56% of people use AI at least once a day or once a week. … [Read More...]

11 Most Popular Books on Perl Programming

Perl is not the most popular programming language. It has only one million users, compared to 12 million that use Python. However, it has a lot of … [Read More...]

10 Exceptional Books on ChatGPT that Will Blow Your Mind

ChatGPT is a powerful new AI tool that is taking the world by storm. You are going to find a lot of amazing books that will teach you how to make the … [Read More...]

Guides

  • Computer Communications
  • Mobile Computing
  • PC Components
  • PC Data Storage
  • PC Input-Output
  • PC Multimedia
  • Processors (CPUs)

Recent Posts

Fix Frozen Tabs in Chrome

The browser is our window to the Internet. And, since so much of our lives are spent on the Internet, it is important to have a good, reliable … [Read More...]

Network Switches

LAN switches are an expansion of the concept in LAN bridging. They operate at Layer 2 (link layer) of the OSI reference … [Read More...]

How to assign a regular driver to your vehicle with myDGT

Internet apps have changed so many things in recent years. They have even drastically changed things like the way that we manage our driving … [Read More...]

[footer_backtotop]

Copyright © 2025 About | Privacy | Contact Information | Wrtie For Us | Disclaimer | Copyright License | Authors