Read our full Driver Genius Platinum review. This Platinum release has a few extras, including a system booster that tweaks a system for greater performance and another tool that optimizes SSDs. It also purges old drivers, so Windows can’t reinstall them accidentally. What makes this one stands out is that it will bundle all the drivers into an executable file for you, a facility that accelerates the reinstalling of a system dramatically. And, it notifies you of new driver releases.

When these activities are scheduled is controllable by the user, so that it doesn’t repeat the typical Windows irritation of initiating a reboot while you are using the system. Once installed, the application scans the drivers installed and matches these against a driver versioning database, and then downloads and installs the latest ones. The level of user intervention is very low, as this solution is practically fire-and-forget. What Avanquest offers is a small but effective tool that manages driver updates on the PC that tracks more than a million hardware drivers to make sure that the right ones are on your computer. As the title suggests, this is the twentieth version of Driver Genius, by Avanquest Software.

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