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Driver Detective
- Version: 8
- Downloads Count: 394,124
- License Type: Trial
- Price: $30
- Date Added: May 21, 2012
- Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP Home, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit), Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic (32 bit), Microsoft Windows Vista Business (64 bit)
- Requirements: Windows�� Vista, XP Pro, XP Home, 2003 Server, 2000 in 32 bit or 64 bit Editions. 300MHz or higher processor 256 MB of RAM 22 MB of hard disk space Supported Browsers Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher FireFox 1.2 or higher Opera 8 or higher .NET Framework 2.0 is required for this product. If needed it will be installed during installation.
- Author: PC Drivers HeadQuarters
Most recent User Reviews for Driver Detective
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Reviewed by: vieuxpalais
Duration of ownership: 8 Months
Strengths: None!
Weaknesses: No techical support, no online support, no support by email...
Overall Evaluation: Company does not respect the "unlimited" account.This software worth nothing. Pretty bad experience!!!
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Reviewed by: txtreehugger
Duration of ownership: 1 Days
Strengths: None
Weaknesses: Changed settings that didn't need to be changed and didn't fix the problem I downloaded it for.
Overall Evaluation: Company does not honor refund policy. Stay away!
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Reviewed by: MissL01
Duration of ownership: 10 Days
Strengths: None
Weaknesses: Everthing
Overall Evaluation: Don't waste your time and money. the download totally messed my PC and registry up. Had to pay to get me PC restore and now after 4-5 emails and 1 phone call, can get my money back!!!!!
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Reviewed by: genome45
Duration of ownership: 1 Months
Strengths: None
Weaknesses: Does not load all updated drivers, some drivers are in compressed format and extremely difficult to unpack and load. Even after downlaoding all updated drivers the scan continued to identify programs as needing updated drivers, was not able to find needed drivers to fix hardware problems, i.e. AC97 realtek driver for integrated soundcard.
Overall Evaluation: Very poor and totally unsatisfactory customer service. Emailed company 3 times requesting suggestions and or a refund and have yet to hear anything back. As stated earlier, if you dare purchase this program DO NOT GO THROUGH PAYPAL. I wish I had reseached this software and/or company earlier, but behind sight is 20/20. I highly recommend that you DO NOT Purchase this program. Other software companies who solicit this software should be ashamed of themselves, the "free program" is a total scam and plants malware on your computer reflecting a serious need to purchase this software. HIGHLY recommend that you pass this information on as widely as possible!!!
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Reviewed by: small45
Duration of ownership: 8 Days
Strengths: NONE! Support stinks, no response to requests for refunds
Weaknesses: It is poorly designed and doesn't work. For some reason you can't give administrator rights to this program (not that you would want to) It lacks the permission to write to it's own default download directory, so be ready to create your own download directory outside of Windows protected directories. I haven't had this problem with any other software. I'm sure I could find many other weaknesses if I wanted to take the chance of testing it on my PC. The internet is full of bad reviews of this software which complain of it having badly effected their system, other programs, etc. For me, the program not working ends the test.
Overall Evaluation: The product is poor, but it's the company that's the real problem. They're not competent or honest. A competent company reads the support emails, and doesn't just you links to tutorial videos when that is not your problem. An honest company gives you a refund if they use the word "guaranteed". An honest company doesn't plaster the word "FREE" all over the internet when in fact it is not free. It doesn't try to scare the hell out of potential users by finding a host of "problems" that they can fix if only you send them money. I don't fall for scare tactics, but I know I have some driver issues. Since scaring up drivers for free on the internet can take hours or days, and because the idea of a software scan of installed drivers and downloading the correct driver is so practical and do-able, I decided to take a chance. I'm not sorry that I took a chance, but I am sorry that I took that chance on Driver Detective. P.S. If you buy this or any other software on the internet, use your credit card, not PAYPAL. Paypal will not give you a refund on software purchases. You will have better recourse if you use a credit card. Credit Card companies are bound by Federal law to take action on complaints, and those actions usually favor the cardholder
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Reviewed by: joesas
Duration of ownership: 2 Days
Strengths: none
Weaknesses: mike hurd talks through his a-- because of the scam he has going he said he would refund 2 emails after he reneged??
Overall Evaluation: deceptive sales practice
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