The difference between Professional and Platinum versions of Driver Genius is that with the Platinum version you also get the System Booster and System Cleanup features, as shown above. Some screenshots of the SSD Speeder, System Cleanup and System Booster:ĭriver Genius Professional vs Driver Genius Platinum These system optimization tools may be very helpful to you if you have an old machine. For example, Hardware Info shows you full details about the hardware in your machine:
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As shown in the screenshot above, Driver Genius will give you an estimate of how much space you’ll save.Ī couple of fairly good tools are here (though there’s nothing you can’t do for free with other tools).
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This identifies old drivers that are not being used and gives you the option to remove them. If you’ve backed up drivers with Driver Genius, use this to restore them. Then you can choose where to backup your current drivers. You can see drivers are separated into Currently Used Drivers and Original Windows Drivers, and you can click the dropdown to select drivers for different hardware. Like the Driver Update feature, this starts running as soon as you click it and finishes very quickly. As I’ve kept my laptop fairly clean and it’s only a few months old, there wasn’t too much that was found here (mostly Intel driver updates). On my laptop, this was done super fast - within 20 seconds I’d got the result you see above. The second you click on “Driver Update” in the left-hand menu, Driver Genius will do a scan of your drivers and tell you which one’s it thinks are out of date. On the left-hand side of the screen, you can see the primary features of Driver Genius: Driver Update, Driver Backup, Driver Restore, Driver Cleanup, Toolkit and System Optimize. Using Driver GeniusĪfter installing Driver Genius from the official site at (a simple process) and opening the software for the first time, you’ll see a home screen like this: In this review, I’ll try the software out and give my honest take on it.
Driver Genius is a tool primarily for driver management (backup, restoring, cleaning up and updating drivers), but it also doubles as a general system optimization tool that may be able to speed up your PC if it’s bogged down too much.
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