DriverMax 18 for Windows
Every driver updater can tell you a newer version exists. DriverMax tells you what happened to the people who installed it — on that exact package, before you touch a thing.
Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8 and 7 · 64-bit and 32-bit
The part everyone else leaves out
Newer does not mean better, and on drivers it sometimes means a machine that will not wake from sleep. DriverMax keeps the outcome of every install its users report and puts that record under the driver you are looking at. Three things can be true of a package, and the app says which one it is.
“Installed successfully by 129 of 129 users”
A real line from the app. Not stars, not a review — a count of installs that actually finished, on this exact package.
“too few installs to say”
Below five installs there is no figure at all. One person's good afternoon is not a 100% success rate, and we will not print it as one.
Withheld, not offered
A package that keeps going wrong stops being handed out. You never see it, which is rather the point of counting in the first place.
Because sometimes the newer one is worse
Nothing here is a one-way door. Two independent routes home are put in place before a single file is replaced, and neither of them needs us.
Before anything is replaced, the driver you are running is copied out of the Windows driver store into an archive that stays on your PC.
Ticked by default — and when Windows refuses, DriverMax says so plainly instead of claiming a safety net it did not get.
If Windows decided to keep the driver it already had, it says that too, and it costs you nothing. No outcome is dressed up as a success.
There is no crippled edition. The paid licence lifts one limit and leaves the rest of the program exactly where it is.
A catalogue that works out which version belongs on your hardware, rather than handing you the newest one it can find.
Packages are scanned for threats and their signature is checked. The app shows you which ones are signed, on the card, before you install.
One press copies every driver on the PC into an archive. Keep it before a reinstall, and put them back afterwards.
Scheduled scans run on their own, so a driver that appears in March does not sit there until you next think about it.
New versions install while the machine is idle. No badge, no restart nag, nothing asking you to approve something you cannot influence anyway.
English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Romanian, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese and both Chinese scripts.
DriverMax 18 runs on Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7, 64-bit and 32-bit, and on the matching Windows Server editions.
Older Windows installs drivers with a different command from the one Windows 11 uses — a detail that quietly breaks other tools, because the newer syntax simply prints its own help and exits without touching anything. DriverMax works out which Windows it is standing on and speaks to it the way that version expects. It is a small thing, and it is the difference between a driver arriving and an old laptop being told there is nothing to be done for it.
Windows 11 · Windows 10 · Windows 8.1 · Windows 8 · Windows 7 · Windows Server
One limit, and it is the only one: how many drivers you may install in a day. Four lengths, from a month to lifetime.
“We can say that DriverMax is a reliable choice when it comes to keeping your system fully functional and up to date. It saves you a great amount of time by automatically searching the web and installing drivers, so you don't have to.”
Softpedia · read the review
“The software scans all drivers and checks to see if there are any good current updates for them and notifies you about them and just to mention how easy the interface is anyone can use it.”
NightFalconHD · Cnet user
“Very good driver update program! Easy to use and found all installed drivers. If you only need to update a few driver, go for the free version. Must-have software!”
Filehorse user · more reviews
No. Downloading, scanning, reading the results and installing drivers under the free limit all work with no account at all. An account only becomes useful once you have a licence, because holding your licence is what it is for.
Your previous driver was archived before the new one went on, and Windows made a restore point. Both roads back are already in place, and neither of them needs us.
On the PC you bought it on, nothing — it activates itself. For your other computers there is a code in your email, and the registration page walks through it with pictures.
No. Release the PC in Settings before you wipe it, or simply enter your code again afterwards. And a place nobody has used for thirty days frees itself.
The scan takes a few seconds, needs no account, and costs nothing.
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Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8 and 7 · 64-bit and 32-bit
