I read a couple of reviews of DD on line that say it is ok and does what it
says it does, including updating non-windows drivers, like for my stupid music
software, and who knows, my stupid email program, as well.
Are there sites whose reviews you trust????
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Critchlow
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: 11/13/2009 2:34:13 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] driver detective
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Nicholas Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
Does anybody have anything kind or unkind to say about Driver Detective for a
year at 30 bucks.
My computer runs like doing aerobics in a swimming pool full of molassas.
DD's free scan says i have 59 out-of-date drivers and offers to fix them. I
assume that if I allow a piece of software to correct 59 drivers on my
computer, the chance that it wont work when it is done are pretty high.
I've never seen a "free PC scan" that wasn't a scam, but maybe this one is the
exception. Have you tried Windows Update to see if it has any suggested driver
updates?
And while I am asking smart people dumb questions, does anybody recommend
online backup and if so which one. Anybody know about the heavily advertized
"carbonite" which goes for six bucks a month?
Funny you should ask, I just installed http://jungledisk.com last night, it
charges ($2.00 + $0.15/gigabyte) / month. It will do backups of specific
folders or allow you to simply copy stuff to the cloud drive. It bills through
your Amazon account and stores the data on Amazon EC2.
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