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Old drivers can cause lower performance and crashes. Some old drivers also represent a security risk.
Most PC crashes are caused by outdated or conflicting drivers. Older drivers can lead to system errors, crashes and slow performance.
Old and faulty drivers can result in blue screen crashes and other performance issues that can result in your hardware will not work properly, slow web surfing, slow PC startup, crashes, and slow computer performance.
Hardware manufacturers regularly update drivers, in many cases to correct conflicts, stability, and performance issues. DRIVERfighter will scan your computer, find your old drivers and create a list where you can see the new drivers available and you can then choose which drivers you want DRIVERfighter to download and install on your PC.
No, Windows update only updates your Windows installation and does not update important drivers for your motherboard, Bluetooth drivers, video card drivers, Ethernet drivers etc.
You can try a free scan for updated drivers with DRIVERfighter. After that you can choose to purchase DRIVERfighter and have all your drivers updated and use the software on a regular basis. Download the free trial and do a scan here: http://www.spamfighter.com/DRIVERfighter
More than 100.000 drivers from Epson, Nvidia, Intel, Dlink, Lenovo, Asus, Brother, Okidata, Konica, HP, Toshiba, Acer and many others are supported.
Your license key can be used on one PC.
Manual Activation
*Open DRIVERfighter
*Choose “Account” in the left menu
*Type in your product key
*Click the “Add product Key” button. Your key will now be active
To buy DRIVERfighter, please do the following:
1. Open DRIVERfighter by locating the program Start – All Programs – Fighters – DRIVERfighter – DRIVERfighter.
2. Choose “Account” in the left menu.
3. Click on the green “Purchase Full Version” button.
4. You will be transferred to our website where you can buy a valid key.
5. Make sure you add your new product key to the program.
Locating just 10+ updated drivers can be very tiresome and you will always have the risk of finding drivers that are actually not the newest versions.
If you experience that your monitor settings are reset after driver update you need to set your monitor settings again by going to your monitor settings in Windows.
The reason this happens is most likely that Windows was not able to keep the settings during the driver update and therefore they were reset.
We strongly suggest that you close all other programs before updating your drivers and that you do not use your computer during the update as this could make programs or even hardware fail.
If you see this error in DRIVERfighter when you try to update your drivers: Unable to create system restore point, error code: 2147754754
Please go to Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services
Enable the service named “Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Protection Service“. If it is disabled, set it back to “Manual”.
Then make sure that the System Restore feature is enabled on your computer:
How to activate system restore on your computer
For Windows 7:
1. Go to Start
2. Click “Control Panel”
3. Click “System and Security”
4. Click “System”
5. Chose “System Protection”
6. Choose your System Drive (most likely drive C: (System))
7. Click “Configure”
8. Chose the “Restore system settings and previous versions of files”
9. Click “OK”
Your System Restore is now active.
For Windows VISTA:
1. Click “Start” button
2. Click “Control Panel”
3. Click “System and Maintenance”
4. Clicking “System”.
5. In the left pane, click System Protection. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
6. To turn on System Protection for a hard disk, select the check box next to the disk, and then click “OK”.
For Windows XP:
1. Click “Start”
2. Right-click “My Computer”
3. Click “Properties”.
4. In the System Properties dialog box, click the “System Restore” tab.
3. Click to clear the “Turn off System Restore” check box. Or, click the “Turn off System Restore on all drives” check box.
4. Click OK.
After a few moments, the System Properties dialog box closes.
If yo see this error code in the error message: Error code: 2147754754, then you need to follow THIS GUIDE
This is how to activate your System restore:
For Windows 7:
1. Go to Start
2. Click “Control Panel”
3. Click “System and Security”
4. Click “System”
5. Chose “System Protection”
6. Choose your System Drive (most likely drive C: (System))
7. Click “Configure”
8. Chose the “Restore system settings and previous versions of files”
9. Click “OK”
Your System Restore is now active.
For Windows VISTA:
1. Click “Start” button
2. Click “Control Panel”
3. Click “System and Maintenance”
4. Clicking “System”.
5. In the left pane, click System Protection. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
6. To turn on System Protection for a hard disk, select the check box next to the disk, and then click “OK”.
For Windows XP:
1. Click “Start”
2. Right-click “My Computer”
3. Click “Properties”.
4. In the System Properties dialog box, click the “System Restore” tab.
5. Click to clear the “Turn off System Restore” check box. Or, click the “Turn off System Restore on all drives” check box.
6. Click OK.
After a few moments, the System Properties dialog box closes.
To uninstall DRIVERfighter, please do the following:
Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs.
Locate DRIVERfighter in the list, select it and click on the “Remove” button.
Click on “Control Panel“
Click on “System and Security“
Click on “Security and Maintenance“
Click on “Recovery“
Clock on “Configure System restore“
Clock on your main drive (C:)(system)
Click on “Configure“
Click on “Turn on system protection“
Click “Apply” and “ok“
The system restore is now active and you can use DRIVERfighter.
DRIVERfighter - General
Old drivers can cause lower performance and crashes. Some old drivers also represent a security risk.
Most PC crashes are caused by outdated or conflicting drivers. Older drivers can lead to system errors, crashes and slow performance.
Old and faulty drivers can result in blue screen crashes and other performance issues that can result in your hardware will not work properly, slow web surfing, slow PC startup, crashes, and slow computer performance.
Hardware manufacturers regularly update drivers, in many cases to correct conflicts, stability, and performance issues. DRIVERfighter will scan your computer, find your old drivers and create a list where you can see the new drivers available and you can then choose which drivers you want DRIVERfighter to download and install on your PC.
No, Windows update only updates your Windows installation and does not update important drivers for your motherboard, Bluetooth drivers, video card drivers, Ethernet drivers etc.
You can try a free scan for updated drivers with DRIVERfighter. After that you can choose to purchase DRIVERfighter and have all your drivers updated and use the software on a regular basis. Download the free trial and do a scan here: http://www.spamfighter.com/DRIVERfighter
More than 100.000 drivers from Epson, Nvidia, Intel, Dlink, Lenovo, Asus, Brother, Okidata, Konica, HP, Toshiba, Acer and many others are supported.
Your license key can be used on one PC.
Manual Activation
*Open DRIVERfighter
*Choose “Account” in the left menu
*Type in your product key
*Click the “Add product Key” button. Your key will now be active
To buy DRIVERfighter, please do the following:
1. Open DRIVERfighter by locating the program Start – All Programs – Fighters – DRIVERfighter – DRIVERfighter.
2. Choose “Account” in the left menu.
3. Click on the green “Purchase Full Version” button.
4. You will be transferred to our website where you can buy a valid key.
5. Make sure you add your new product key to the program.
Locating just 10+ updated drivers can be very tiresome and you will always have the risk of finding drivers that are actually not the newest versions.
If you experience that your monitor settings are reset after driver update you need to set your monitor settings again by going to your monitor settings in Windows.
The reason this happens is most likely that Windows was not able to keep the settings during the driver update and therefore they were reset.
We strongly suggest that you close all other programs before updating your drivers and that you do not use your computer during the update as this could make programs or even hardware fail.
If you see this error in DRIVERfighter when you try to update your drivers: Unable to create system restore point, error code: 2147754754
Please go to Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services
Enable the service named “Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Protection Service“. If it is disabled, set it back to “Manual”.
Then make sure that the System Restore feature is enabled on your computer:
How to activate system restore on your computer
For Windows 7:
1. Go to Start
2. Click “Control Panel”
3. Click “System and Security”
4. Click “System”
5. Chose “System Protection”
6. Choose your System Drive (most likely drive C: (System))
7. Click “Configure”
8. Chose the “Restore system settings and previous versions of files”
9. Click “OK”
Your System Restore is now active.
For Windows VISTA:
1. Click “Start” button
2. Click “Control Panel”
3. Click “System and Maintenance”
4. Clicking “System”.
5. In the left pane, click System Protection. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
6. To turn on System Protection for a hard disk, select the check box next to the disk, and then click “OK”.
For Windows XP:
1. Click “Start”
2. Right-click “My Computer”
3. Click “Properties”.
4. In the System Properties dialog box, click the “System Restore” tab.
3. Click to clear the “Turn off System Restore” check box. Or, click the “Turn off System Restore on all drives” check box.
4. Click OK.
After a few moments, the System Properties dialog box closes.
If yo see this error code in the error message: Error code: 2147754754, then you need to follow THIS GUIDE
This is how to activate your System restore:
For Windows 7:
1. Go to Start
2. Click “Control Panel”
3. Click “System and Security”
4. Click “System”
5. Chose “System Protection”
6. Choose your System Drive (most likely drive C: (System))
7. Click “Configure”
8. Chose the “Restore system settings and previous versions of files”
9. Click “OK”
Your System Restore is now active.
For Windows VISTA:
1. Click “Start” button
2. Click “Control Panel”
3. Click “System and Maintenance”
4. Clicking “System”.
5. In the left pane, click System Protection. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
6. To turn on System Protection for a hard disk, select the check box next to the disk, and then click “OK”.
For Windows XP:
1. Click “Start”
2. Right-click “My Computer”
3. Click “Properties”.
4. In the System Properties dialog box, click the “System Restore” tab.
5. Click to clear the “Turn off System Restore” check box. Or, click the “Turn off System Restore on all drives” check box.
6. Click OK.
After a few moments, the System Properties dialog box closes.
To uninstall DRIVERfighter, please do the following:
Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs.
Locate DRIVERfighter in the list, select it and click on the “Remove” button.
Click on “Control Panel“
Click on “System and Security“
Click on “Security and Maintenance“
Click on “Recovery“
Clock on “Configure System restore“
Clock on your main drive (C:)(system)
Click on “Configure“
Click on “Turn on system protection“
Click “Apply” and “ok“
The system restore is now active and you can use DRIVERfighter.
