Driver Robot Review 2012!
As I’ve stated before many times, finding and installing most recent drivers is crucial for every Windows box. It strengthens the security, stability and performance.
Yet it’s very hard to achieve complete up-to-date-ness (is it a word? 
) completely manually (as I’ve already stated in Microsoft Driver Updates post). More: it’s almost impossible and takes heaps of time. And time is one of the most valuable things in the Universe.
That’s why there are so many apps that automate the process of finding, downloading and installing most recent drivers. Driver Robot for a long time has been and still is one of the most popular applications on the market. It was praised for having enormous database, being very fast, furious and reliable. Mentioned as one of its pros was also the Exporter tool which allows you to install drivers on an offline computer. There are hundreds of DR reviews and even more people making money by recommending this product.
So Driver Robot seems to be the ultimate solution.
Unfortunately: it really is not.
To be honest: Driver Robot’s case is one of the biggest scams you can find on the Internet.
The Driver Robot’s Honest Review
Driver Robot was a driver updating bestseller for quite a while. This was due to its really big (at that time) hardware database and reliability. It was also liked by the Internet Marketing community because it promised (and delivered) really high commission. It was a win-win-win situation for everybody. But just for a while.
Time has passed and now Driver Robot seems not to be developed at all. When you go to its homepage you can see that the producer still promotes the product with the words: “Huge database” which contains of “100,000 entires”. Sounds pretty much, huh? The only problem is that right now MDU’s recommended tool, Driver Detective has a database which contains of more than 27 million entries.
Huge? Not even big.
27 mil. This is a huge database.
Worst of all, Blitware, the producer of the tool reviewed here, started developing a new driver updating tool called Driver Fetch (which seems to be a rebranded Driver Robot, since its database contains of 100,000 entries, just like DR’s.)
But Internet Marketers couldn’t give up. They saw so nice money-flow from their DR reviews they couldn’t resist not to delete/correct them. That’s why when you google for Driver Robot review, almost all the results have two things in common:
- They praise Driver Robot like hell.
- They were written between 2008-2010 (some IMs try to lie to you by changing the date of publication once a year, e.g. this particular Driver Robot review claims to be written in 2012 but promotes Driver Robot version 1.0 which is old as hell.)
Conclusion
I really can’t tell you anything different from what’s already been said in our comparison of driver updaters. The truth is, we didn’t even include Driver Robot there because we don’t want to lie to our readers. But for the sake of being honest we include here the comparison of DR and Driver Detective so you can see the difference. (coming soon)
For the truth is still as simple as it can be: if you want the best driver updater, you buy Driver Detective (read the Driver Detective review); and if you think there might be time you’ll have to install drivers on an offline computer, you buy Driver Checker (which has quite small but still more than 10x bigger database than Driver Robot; it also contains of all the popular drivers.)
So don’t get caught in any of those scams. Always double-check.
-Kuba