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I have a Dell laptop issued by my employer, and I always find it a real pain to search for, download and maintain their drivers. It baffles me that there does not seem to be a nice way (product, website, ...) to just download the stuff you need, without hassle. The same goes for the other Windows based laptops in my direct environment.

Are there any (preferably free) automated solutions available? Or do you have a nice workflow - other than searching the manufacturers website - to help smoothing this process?

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For Dell products: What's wrong just going to their support site and entering your Service Tag? Easy and customized. – afrazier Nov 17 '11 at 2:06
Sometimes the easiest path is to use something like CPU-Z to identify the hardware and then download the drivers from the manufacturer. – Camilo Martin Feb 3 at 15:08
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Drivermax is free and the best and supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, 64 and 32-bit.

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This is just what I needed, nice and free (if you agree to upload your driver information, not an issue for me) – Ben Aug 25 '09 at 12:13
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Not free anymore :-( Latest version: 5.31 (free program, paid update available) – Mehper C. Palavuzlar Nov 9 '09 at 14:51
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Update Notifier is one of my favorite FREEWARE programs. However, Driver Checker is also a good one.

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DriverChecker does seem to be the tool I was looking for, too bad it's payware to update the drivers though. Then again, a tool that scans for outdated drivers is a godsend. – Ben Aug 19 '09 at 9:37
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Try using Secunia PSI. It can update drivers and other apps!

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Not exactly what I was looking for, but a very nice app, thanks! – Ben Aug 18 '09 at 17:46
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Driver Genius is what I use.

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