mraikes
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Sure, You have your devices and also vender id, product id. Its not a hard deal to go and look them up.
But I respect your want of using "driver max" . I just do not want to fork out the money to know what driver I need. I look at it like this: If I use this program 40 times then thats 60 bucks. - 20 times and you have to repurchase it right?
Ok good, I was starting to think I had misunderstood the end result.
And yes, it works out to about a buck forty-five each time you use it. So if it's used a thousand times it will cost $1,450 (since bumping it up to bigger numbers seems to make a difference to you). And if it saves only an average of 15 minutes each time, that's 250 hours saved. If your time is worth as little as $10 per hour, you'd be $1050 ahead. If your time is worth more than $10/hour - bump that last number up accordingly.
So back to the manual approach - after completing the three steps you described previously, you're really only 1/3 of the way done.
1. Find vendor & product ID's of the unknown hardware.
2. Cross reference the ID's using one of the various databases to find out what the hardware actually IS.
3. Find & install decent drivers for that hardware.
(hidden step 4.) Wash, rinse, repeat for each unknown device.
I actually do those exact steps when I have no other option. But given a choice, I'd rather knock out all three (four) steps at once.
Again, I'm not at all saying the manual approach is wrong - far from it. Only that it's not the simplest nor (in my circumstance) the most cost effective. Save a penny, spend a dime.
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