Requests

[Telephant]

A portable version would be very useful.

I also think some form of highlighting on the results would help, showing where the drivers are most out of date (generations and/or date wise). A RAG traffic light system or maybe shown warm through very cold. Like the filter suggestion, this will highlight where the priority updates should be made. A driver jump from version 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 issued over two months may not matter too much but it might for 1.0.0 to 3.0.0 issued two years apart.

[jcpb72]

Hello Device Doctor Team,

thanks for such a great tool....

Just would like to add the following, for consideration......not sure if it has been added already.

1) Automated Driver Install Answer file / Scripted option.
When Windows detects "New/Unknown Hardware"....it starts DD and automatically installs the Unknown device drivers, based on answer file settings....
This would be a great feature, and could work in tandem with Acronis Snap Deploy, as the Uni-Deploy only detects HAL Hardware and not PnP Devices.

2) Choice to DOWNLOAD drivers from Internet or Network Share (driver repository)
To relieve driver install time and network traffic.....The choice/ability to create a LAN Driver Repository, were commonly used drivers can be installed from.

3) Proxy Server Support.....For sites that can only access the Internet through a Proxy, settings to access the LAN's Proxy Server.

4) "Select All Drivers" to download option.

Once again thanks for a great product.

[markem]

I am not sure if this is possible with Windows drivers, but Linux does a great job of determining what has to be installed when. It might not even be something to worry about but if one driver depended upon another it would be nice if Device Doctor knew that and would download and/or install in the proper order.

As I said though, I don't even know if this matters under Windows. It is probably each driver is unique and is an SCU (Self Contained Unit).

Another feature (probably already IN Device Doctor and I just don't know about it since it all worked great the first time I used it and I haven't had to use it since) would be for Device Doctor to re-check the list of devices after all installs are through and do a before/after kind of thing so you can compare what all changed. Devices that didn't have a driver before could be in red. Outdated drivers in yellow and current drivers would be green. (As an aside you could use emoticons too! -> -> for bad->ok->good! )

Anyway, just a couple of ideas off the top of my head as I sit here at work.