Driver Magician is an easy-to-use and powerful device driver backup, restoration, update and removal software in Windows operation system. For those that don’t know what drivers are: In computing,  a device driver or software driver is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device. They are an absolute must on every computer or else nothing would work.

Driver Magician identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore all the saved drivers just as if you had the original driver diskettes in your hands. After one system reboot, all hardware in your computer works well. Moreover, it can back up and restore more items such as My Documents folder, Desktop, Registry, Internet Explorer favorite folder, data files of Outlook and Outlook Expres

What’s more, Driver Magician has a built in database of the latest drivers with the ability to go to the Internet to receive the driver updates. It saves lots of time to find the correct drivers and mature drivers will obviously increase the performance of hardware. If there are unknown devices in your PC, Driver Magician helps you detect them easily and quickly with its built in hardware identifier database.

Driver Magician

Driver Magician makes it very easy to backup, restore and update drivers in Windows. However, I feel Driver Magician is a bit overpriced ($29.95). The lite version of Driver Magician is available as a free download, but it comes with very few features.

Difference between Driver Magician and Driver Magician Lite:

Difference between Driver Magician and Driver Magician Lite

Driver Magician Free Download With Serial Number

Driver Magician is normally priced at $29.95 per serial number / registration key, but you can download Driver Magician 3.71 full version free and legal from Giveaway of the Day for today only ( January 17, 2013). Don’t miss it. Visit GOTD Page.

Please make sure to follow the instructions in the readme.txt file which is included in the package for proper activation. You have to install and activate it before the Giveaway offer for the software is over.

Driver Magician is fully compatible with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/7/8/x64.

Freeware Alternative to Driver Magician

For those who will be missing today’s giveaway, below are some freeware/free alternative to Driver Magician:

1, DriverMax

DriverMax, developed by Innovative Solutions (famous for its Advanced Uninstaller PRO software), is a free and powerful utility which helps you download, update, backup and restore the drivers installed on your Windows PC. DriverMax identifies all the hardware in the system, and download all associated drivers from one place in just a few steps and keep your PC up to date.  If there are unknown devices in your PC, DriverMax helps you detect them easily and quickly with its built in hardware identifier database.  It saves lots of time to find the correct drivers and mature drivers will obviously increase the performance of hardware.

[Download & Learn More about DriverMax]

2, Uniblue Driver Scanner 2013 (Paid software, free for a limited time period)

Uniblue Driver Scanner 2013 is an easy-to-use and powerful system drivers updating software with which to update system drivers, releasing improved functionality and increasing operability with networks and hardware. Built with simplicity in mind, DriverScanner scans your computer to provide a list of drivers that need to be updated. With single click convenience, DriverScanner will then safely install each update on your PC. DriverScanner also has the capability to backup and restore any driver in your computer.  Backup and restore option is useful if your computer software and drivers came preinstalled and you don’t have a driver CD.

[Download & Learn More about Uniblue Driver Scanner]

3, SlimDrivers

SlimDrivers is a driver management tool that  automatically updates PC drivers with real-time scanning and cloud technology. The first cloud-based utility for updating and maintaining drivers, SlimDrivers provides instant optimization of the interaction between a computer and its system components and periperhals, such as printers, graphic and sound cards, motherboards, USB ports, game controllers and other devices and hardware. SlimDrivers scans a PC, identifies the correct drivers needed, and retrieves them from the cloud, automatically installing the most current, precise drivers for each individual PC. SlimDrivers features a one-click, start scan button on its product homepage, which begins the process automatically to scan a PC and identify out-of-date or broken drivers. Then, seamlessly, SlimDrivers creates a personalized driver profile of that PC, and accesses the online cloud database for the most up-to-date, customized driver software.

Note: Individual Driver updates are free. The Plus version called DriverUpdate allows for “Download All” and advanced automation functionality.

[Download & Learn More about SlimDrivers]

4, Double Driver

Double Driver is a very simple and useful tool which not only allows you to view all the drivers installed on your system but also allows you to backup, restore, save and print all chosen drivers. Double Driver analyzes your system and lists the most important driver details such as version, date, provider, etc. All drivers that are found can easily be backed up the application and easily restored at a later point in one go.

[Download & Learn More about Double Driver]