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<blockquote data-quote="roger_m" data-source="post: 861960" data-attributes="member: 31436"><p>As someone who has been using for both for years and have used them on countless computers, I can say the following.</p><p>The size of the driver databases in both programs is similar. When Driver Booster was first released, it had a very small database of drivers. But this has been expanded greatly over the years. These days, typically both programs will find a similar number of driver updates. Having said that, I feel that both programs need to expand their databases, to include drivers for more devices. In terms of the database size, DriverAssist is far superior to either of them and Driver Toolkit also has a much bigger database, although this is not a recommendation for either.</p><p></p><p>Driver Booster does a very good job of finding the correct drivers, just like Driver Easy does, so it's not correct to say that Driver Easy is much more safe to use. I like both programs, but Driver Booster has big advantage in that the free version is not very limited, unlike the free version of Driver Easy. The free version of Driver Easy downloads drivers very slowly and requires manual installation of each driver. With Driver Booster, although the download speed is not as fast as the Pro version, it is still quite fast and just like the Pro version is can automatically install all the drivers one after the other. For these reasons, I feel that free version of Driver Booster is far superior to the free version of Driver Easy, but the paid versions of both are fairly similar.</p><p></p><p>The major difference between the two, is that while IObit is a shady company, Easeware - the publisher of Driver Easy is a trustworthy company and they really care about their reputation as such.</p><p></p><p>While Driver Booster is used to promote some of IObit's other software, it is also one of the best driver update tools there is.</p><p></p><p></p><p>But it doesn't. If you do a clean install of Windows, often it won't be able to find drivers for all devices. Even when it does, typically some are generic drivers which often don't work as well at the proper OEM ones.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="roger_m, post: 861960, member: 31436"] As someone who has been using for both for years and have used them on countless computers, I can say the following. The size of the driver databases in both programs is similar. When Driver Booster was first released, it had a very small database of drivers. But this has been expanded greatly over the years. These days, typically both programs will find a similar number of driver updates. Having said that, I feel that both programs need to expand their databases, to include drivers for more devices. In terms of the database size, DriverAssist is far superior to either of them and Driver Toolkit also has a much bigger database, although this is not a recommendation for either. Driver Booster does a very good job of finding the correct drivers, just like Driver Easy does, so it's not correct to say that Driver Easy is much more safe to use. I like both programs, but Driver Booster has big advantage in that the free version is not very limited, unlike the free version of Driver Easy. The free version of Driver Easy downloads drivers very slowly and requires manual installation of each driver. With Driver Booster, although the download speed is not as fast as the Pro version, it is still quite fast and just like the Pro version is can automatically install all the drivers one after the other. For these reasons, I feel that free version of Driver Booster is far superior to the free version of Driver Easy, but the paid versions of both are fairly similar. The major difference between the two, is that while IObit is a shady company, Easeware - the publisher of Driver Easy is a trustworthy company and they really care about their reputation as such. While Driver Booster is used to promote some of IObit's other software, it is also one of the best driver update tools there is. But it doesn't. If you do a clean install of Windows, often it won't be able to find drivers for all devices. Even when it does, typically some are generic drivers which often don't work as well at the proper OEM ones. [/QUOTE]
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