Both are freeware. Both tools are designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information possible about computer's hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts as well. Retrieved information is presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports. Try Driver Identifier. I just reinstalled XP on a 6 year old Presario laptop and got most of the drivers from the HP site but still had a few in the device manager.
DriverIdentifier will scan your hardware using a unique method. It will indicate the name of the manufacturer and version of your devices. DriverIdentifier has a huge database of drivers from all hardware manufacturers.
It will give you the most updated drivers for your machine. Yes, there are such tools. They can nearly read out every property of your hardware.
Sidenote: Lavalys seems to have canceled the Home-Edition of Everest. You can still find it around the web, f. PC-Wizard is freeware. SiSoftware Sandra was designed to be a 32 and bit Windows system analyser that includes benchmarking, testing and listing modules.
It tries to go beyond other utilities to show you more of what is really going on under the hood so you draw comparisons at both a high and low-level in a single product. If you are looking for drivers for a desktop computer motherboard's onboard devices it's a good idea to begin by looking on the site of the motherboard manufacturer. At the very least a motherboard manual will most of the time identify onboard hardware such as the sound, network, and chipset. Sign up to join this community.
The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Asked 11 years, 6 months ago. Once you have the details you can search the manufacturers website for your drivers and, if available, download and install these drivers. If you are unsure of whether or not you need to update your Drivers, or indeed which Drivers may need to be updated, you can run a Drivers scan using a driver update tool you will need to pay to register this tool but usually the Drivers scan is free.
This will allow you to assess your Driver needs without any commitment. Alternatively, you can use the device manager to check if there are problems with any of your hardware devices. When it comes to device drivers, Windows XP has two built in settings that are designed to ensure signed drivers are used in the system. First, when you begin a driver installation procedure, Windows XP will by default check to see if the driver has been signed.
Second, when you connect a new device to your system without first installing the drivers, Windows XP is configured to prompt you to allow the operating system to check the Windows Update site for a signed driver.
You can alter or investigate these settings on the Hardware tab of the System Properties dialog box. To do so, press [Windows]-Break to display the System Properties dialog box and then select the Hardware tab. When you click the Driver Signing button, you'll see the Driver Signing Options dialog box, which provides you with three levels of digital signature verification, as shown in Figure D.
As you can see, the default setting is to warn you when an unsigned driver is detected. This is the setting that will generate the Hardware Installation dialog box shown earlier in Figure B. As you can see, you can either lower or raise the digital signature verification level. When you do so, rather than a dialog box like the one shown in Figure B, you'll see a Hardware Installation dialog box like the one shown in Figure E, anytime you attempt to install a device with an unsigned driver.
As you can see, the available settings allow you to select one of three levels of control over how the operating system is to access the Windows Update site when looking for signed drivers. The default setting is to prompt you to search the Windows Update site for a signed driver.
However, if you really want to enforce the policy, you can select the first option in order to make Windows XP immediately go to the Windows Update site. Now that you have a good idea of how Windows XP's driver signing features work and how they can be configured, let's take a look at how you can use the File Signature Verification Utility, as shown in Figure G, to troubleshoot driver problems. However, you can launch the utility much quicker from the Run command. In order to configure the Signature Verification Utility to track down unsigned drivers, click the Advanced button.
When the Advanced File Signature Verification Settings dialog box appears, you'll notice that the default setting is to scan for unsigned system files. To complete the configuration operation, click OK. When you return to the File Signature Verification window, click Start. As soon as you do, the File Signature Verification window will begin building a file list and then start scanning all the files in the Drivers folder for unsigned drivers, as shown in Figure J.
When the utility finishes its scan operation, you'll see the Signature Verification Results window, as shown in Figure K. As you can see, the window lists all of the unsigned drivers that the utility found installed on the system. In addition, there is a mini report in the status area the provides a total and breakdown of all the files scanned. While looking over the preliminary information provided in this window is helpful, the working copy of the report is in the Sigverif.
Don't be alarmed that the report identifies the operating system as Windows this utility is a carry over from the previous operating system and through an oversight Windows is still listed in the log file header.
While the report is comprehensive, it lists all of the driver files and is sorted alphabetically rather than by status. As such, it can be a bit unwieldy for use as a map for a troubleshooting expedition.
However, with a bit of manipulation via Excel's Text Import Wizard, the report can be imported into a spreadsheet, where you can easily sort the data by the status, as shown in Figure M. As you can see, in the Sigverif log file drivers that are unsigned are displayed as Not Signed.
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