List All Drivers on Your MachineTo list all drivers in your machine, you can run the
driverquery command from the command line. As usual, type
/? to see the full command. ie.
driverquery /? QUOTE
DRIVERQUERY [/S system [/U username [/P [password]]]]
[/FO format] [/NH] [/SI] [/V]
Description:[b/]
Enables an administrator to enumerate and display the list of
installed device drivers as well as their properties.
[b]Parameter List:
/S system Specifies the remote system to connect to.
/U [domain\]user Specifies the user context
under which the command should execute.
/P [password] Specify the Password for the given
user context. Prompts for input if omitted.
/FO format Specifies the type of output to display.
Valid values to be passed with the
switch are "TABLE", "LIST", "CSV".
/NH Specifies that the "Column Header"
should not be displayed in the
screen output. Valid for "TABLE"
and "CSV" format only.
/V Displays detailed information. Not valid
for signed drivers.
/SI Provides information about signed drivers.
/? Displays this Help/Usage.
Examples:
DRIVERQUERY
DRIVERQUERY /FO CSV /SI
DRIVERQUERY /NH
DRIVERQUERY /S ipaddress /U user /V
DRIVERQUERY /S system /U domain\user /P password /FO LIST
as usual, to output the list of driver to a text file, use the redirect command
> . eg.
driverquery /SI > c:\"documents and settings"\asendure\desktop\driver.txtor you can download ServiWin which is at time of writing version 1.30
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ServiWin utility displays the list of installed drivers and services on your system. For some of them, additional useful information is displayed: file description, version, product name, company that created the driver file, and more.
In addition, ServiWin allows you to easily stop, start, restart, pause, and continue service or driver, change the startup type of service or driver (automatic, manual, disabled, boot or system), save the list of services and drivers to file, or view HTML report of installed services/drivers in your default browser.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/serviwin.htmlBackup Your DriversBoozet's Double Driver FreewareQUOTE
With Double Driver you can view which drivers are installed in your system and you can backup the drivers you choose, save and print the drivers list, and more. Double Driver is freeware. Feel free to use and give this program to anyone you know. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated.
-Double Driver Features
-View installed drivers
-Backup drivers
-Restore drivers
-Save drivers list
-Print drivers list
Huntersoft's WinDriver Expert FreewareQUOTE
My Drivers enables easy and fast detection, backup and restore of all hardware device drivers currently on your system. Also, you can even find the latest drivers for your hardware and install them onto your computer. With just one or two mouse button clicks, you will have all your hardware devices extracted and backed-up to any folder you want. When you reinstall or upgrade your system, you can restore all drivers by clicking a button. Once after a reboot, all the drivers will be re-installed and will function well. You may also choose to backup a particular driver or all the drivers with an EXE automatic installer. If you have a particular item of hardware that is troublesome, just remove the driver with this software. It is especially useful to those who have lost their Driver Disk or Driver CD. My Drivers is able to clone the original driver installation. It is also capable of serving those people to find and install the appropriate and latest drivers for their hardware devices. My Drivers identifies almost all hardware devices, reported information includes device model, device manufacturer, chip/chipset manufacturer, OEM name, OEM vender. Over 58,600 drivers information and manufacturers and venders information are embedded with the software. You may easily find a driver that will work for a certain device by PnP ID fingerprint comparison, and a compatibility test will be performed before installing a driver that will be downloaded from the Internet. It is optional to create a floppy disc with My Drivers included for further driver management and hardware detection when no drivers are installed on Windows system. If you have a CD-R or CD-RW recorder or another partition, you might backup the entire set of driver files there. My Drivers will also backup the Favorites in Internet Explorer and Proxy Settings and provides a backup for settings for Outlook and Outlook Express.
Free vs. Paid Version - more than enuff for our requirements
Rolling Back Your Driver on XPThe Roll Back Driver feature enables you to replace a device driver by using a previously installed version. You can use this feature if you have installed a new device driver that causes your computer to be unstable.
To use the Roll Back Feature:
1. Start Device Manager.
2. Double-click the device for which you want to restore the driver.
3. Click the Driver tab, and then click the Roll Back Driver button.
This post has been edited by AsenDURE: Jun 18 2007, 05:42 PM