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Device Remover is like Device Manager on double steroids


Double steroids? Really? Yes, really. If we're going to call Device Remover a "Device Manager alternative," the double is totally necessary.

This is no sissy-boy device tree. Five tabs present you with a tree view, list view, drivers and services, list of drivers in memory, and active system processes and handles. You can also export or print a full list of your devices and search for a specific device or driver.

On the Device Remover tools menu, you'll find quick links to your control panel applets, relevant registry hives, shutdown options, system restore functions, MMC snap-ins, and macro that automatically removes all your data from every one of Google's web apps. Ok, the last one not so much. But there's a hell of a lot packed into that menu.

It's also good at backing up drivers and cleanup duties, and it's available as a portable app (though the .NET framework must be installed).

Pictures do this app more justice than words, so have a look at the author's screenshot gallery on Live.com. Device Remover works on Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

DriverView: Super quick list of all the drivers installed on your PC

DriverView
Figuring out if your PC's drivers are all up to date can be a bit of a hassle. You could go into the Windows Device Manager, find the appropriate hardware, select update driver and see if anything new comes up. But it would take forever to do this for every single driver you might want to update.

On the other hand, you could run DriverView, a lightweight executable file that quickly scans your PC and returns a list of every driver and its version number. You can double-click on any driver to bring up more detailed information, save the entire list as a text file, or use the search option to find a specific driver.

DriverView won't download updated drivers for you, but if you want to quickly find out drivers are installed on your computer, this is probably the fastest way. Then you can visit the website for your hardware or software to see if there's a new version of your drivers available.

[via The How-To Geek]

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