Driver Fusion

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Driver Fusion 2.1.0.0

New features:
[Premium] Device control - You can now search for a device name to make it easier to find specific devices.
[Premium] Device control - Devices now show their own device icon instead of the device status icon. A colored bar, that represents the current device status, is now shown to the left of the device.
Health check - Community suggested feature - The analysis feature, such as finding all missing or outdated drivers on your system, is now available to free users. A premium license is required to download and install these drivers, or to create a backup of all drivers.
Changed features:
[Premium] Device control - Driver backups now store signature information in the backup information file (.3xy).
Health check - Community suggested feature - The last used backup location is now remembered. The backup location is also added to the backup locations of driver backup in device control.
Health check - Improved the algorithm for finding both missing and outdated drivers.
Interface - Health check is now the default screen when opening Driver Fusion.
Interface - The notification bar now automatically scales the text size in relation to the available space.
Interface - The menu has been redesigned to make it clearer and easier to use.
Interface - Slightly reduced the width of the resize grip on the edges of the window to make scrollbars easier to use.
Interface - On Windows Vista and higher, the native folder dialog is now used instead of the previous used folder dialog.
Manual - The manual shipped with the installer has been removed and replaced by an online manual.
Resolved issues:
[Premium] Device control - Selecting a device could occasionally select the parent of the device.
Health check - Performing a driver backup could in some cases freeze Driver Fusion.
Health check - Scanning for outdated drivers could in some cases freeze Driver Fusion.
Health check - A missing or outdated driver installation would sometimes fail to install.
Starting/closing - Several issues that caused Driver Fusion to close unintentionally.

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Driver Fusion 2.2.0.0

New features:
[Premium] Interface - Health check and driver family now show progress in the taskbar of Windows 7 and higher.
[Premium] Health check - The tooltip of the driver now includes the Windows error message when the driver install fails.
[Premium] Device control - Added a driver backup failed message in case the backup failed.
[Premium] Device control - The message shown when a driver install fails now includes the Windows error message.
[Premium] Device control - Added the authenticode information of the driver to driver overview.
[Premium] Device control - Community suggested feature - You can now also backup online drivers instead of only installed drivers. This enables you to download a driver without being forced to immediately install the driver.
[Premium] Settings - Community suggested feature - A new setting has been added so that a minimum driver signature can be selected for the drivers that are downloadable through health check or device control. The available options are none, signed, authenticode verified by a trusted publisher, authenticode, and WHQL.
Driver families - Added new categories and devices with a lot of new driver family entries to clean, such as devices and peripherals from Razer, Mad Catz, Synaptics, Dell, Epson, Lexmark, Kyocera, Brother and Canon. The existing driver families also have been greatly improved by adding a large number of new driver family entries.
Interface - All screens are now loaded asynchronous and do not block the user interface anymore during loading.
Interface - Longer lasting tasks, such as the health check and driver family scan, can now be cancelled.
Filters - Added a filter to show custom, existing or all filters.
Localization - Added 11 new languages: Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) with special thanks to D. Hsieh, Yoruba (Nigeria), Punjabi (India), Nepali (Nepal), Maori (New Zealand), Lao (Lao P.D.R.), Khmer (Cambodia), Igbo (Nigeria), Hausa (Latin, Nigeria), Bosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Mongolian (Cyrillic, Mongolia), and Marathi (India).
Health check - The tooltip of the driver now includes the provider, release date, version, and signature.
Health check - Changed the cursor of the driver backup destination icon to a pointer to better indicate that it is clickable.
Changed features:
[Premium] Health check - Drivers with a lower version number than the installed driver are now also allowed to be installed. This is especially useful when the older driver, such as the default Microsoft driver, has a higher version number than the newer driver shipped by the vendor.
[Premium] Health check - Increased the amount of drivers that can be downloaded for missing and outdated drivers through improved matching.
[Premium] Device control - Changed the color for missing devices and missing drivers in the colored bar.
[Premium] Device control - Improved the overall detection rate of device identifier by including the compatible ids of the device.
[Premium] Device control - The installed driver filter is now always located at the right side of the screen for consistency.
[Premium] Device control - Improved and the naming scheme and performance of backup.
[Premium] Interface - Renamed location at driver backup to destination to make it similar to health check.
Treexy account - It is now possible to register and sign in using your email address instead of a username. The existing usernames are no longer required and will be removed in the future. Remembered account details (if enabled) will automatically use your email address the next time you sign in.
Treexy account - Improved handling of sign in and sign out so that users have less chance of waiting for the server to reset existing sessions that are not closed correctly.
Interface - The filters and history data grid now automatically scrolls to the top when changing the selected item.
Interface - Screens that have success messages (such as resend email or reset password) now show a green notification upon success.
Interface - All dialog screens are now the same size.
Resolved issues:
[Premium] Health check - Updated the translations to give a more meaningful warning message. For example, no more driver install confirmation warning is given when only a driver backup is created.
[Premium] Product activation - The upgrade to premium label was not immediately hidden after license activation.
[Premium] Device control - Devices could in some cases not show any driver information even though there was a driver installed.
[Premium] Device control - Removing a backup in install driver did not refresh the content correctly.
[Premium] Device control - Install driver asked to select the online driver to install when the only available driver was hidden due to the active filter setting.
[Premium] Device control - Switching between the results of device identifier no longer has a delay.
[Premium] Device control - Reboot notifications could in some cases not show.
[Premium] Device control - The view all filter did not show phantom devices.
[Premium] Device control - The current search query was not reapplied after performing a scan.
[Premium] Device control - The state of related devices did not refresh when enabling or disabling a device that influences the state of related devices. For example, Bluetooth devices are usually related to a couple of other devices.
[Premium] Device control & health check - Driver backup could in some cases not detect all existing backups correctly.
[Premium] Device control & health check - The last used backup destination was not remembered correctly between device control and health check.
Interface - Localized dates were not displayed in accordance with the regional settings of Windows.
Interface - White pixels and lines shown on top of the window.
Interface - Inconsistent alignment of the text in the there are no items available entry.
Interface - Very slow sorting of columns in data grids with a large number of entries.
Driver family - The types of the driver families were not translated.
Health check - The first group in health check shifted up a few pixels as soon as the scrollbar appeared.
Health check - The animation of collapsing a group in health check could sometimes flicker.
Starting/closing - Unintentional closing due to invalid window positions being used to restore the window to.
Starting/closing - Sorting entries could in some cases, especially during an active scan, cause Driver Fusion to close unintentionally.

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Driver Fusion 2.3

New features:
[Premium] Health check - The tooltip of the driver now includes an error message when the driver download fails
Changed features:
[Premium] Device control - Installing a driver now returns to the previously selected device again
[Premium] Health check - System protection is no longer executed when driver backup is the only selected group
Health check - Improved matching of drivers with common identifiers used among manufacturers
Health check - Devices and drivers are now sorted by their class
Resolved issues:
[Premium] Device control & health check - Driver install could sometimes fail due to some files not being able to download
[Premium] Device control - The naming scheme of backup could occasionally generate existing names
[Premium] Device control - The information at the bottom of install driver was not completely visible with some translations
[Premium] Health check - Driver backup could in some cases not detect all existing backups correctly
[Premium] Health check - Changing the driver backup destination did not correctly update the status of existing backups
[Premium] Health check - Missing drivers never listing any drivers available for download
History - Restore did not continue when a registry entry was corrupt
Filters - The delete button was still visible after deleting the last filter item (only with the view custom filter)
Starting/closing - Unintentional closing while retrieving the achievements from Steam
Starting/closing - Unintentional closing due to devices with a non-existent class
Starting/closing - The notification bar could occasionally cause Driver Fusion to freeze or close unintentionally
Starting/closing - Selecting a backup to install could in some cases, especially with corrupt backups or when no driver was installed, cause Driver Fusion to close unintentionally

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Driver Fusion 2.4.0.0

Changed features:
Health check - Improved matching of drivers with common identifiers used among manufacturers.
Interface - Inconsistent alignment of update available text.
Connectivity - Improved handling of network problems.
Resolved issues:
[Premium] Device control & health check - Devices could in some cases not show any installed driver, especially with network adapters, even though there was a driver installed.
[Premium] Device control & health check - Driver install could sometimes fail due to some files not being able to download.
Starting/closing - Searching while loading devices could occasionally cause Driver Fusion to freeze or close unintentionally.
Interface - Increased the maximum input length of most text boxes.

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Driver Fusion 2.5.0.0

New features:
[Premium] Health check - Community suggested feature - You can now exclude a device or available driver in health check. This enables you to keep the current driver if you know that the driver is fine as is.
[Premium] Device control & health check - Improved the performance of retrieving device properties on Windows Vista and higher.
Reporting - Added a report that you can send to Treexy for diagnostic purposes.
Localization - Improved the Chinese (Simplified) translation.
Changed features:
[Premium] Reporting - The reporting feature has been moved from device control to settings.
Health check - The additional driver information, such as the provider and release date, can now be accessed directly instead of through the tooltip of the driver.
Starting - Improved the startup time of Driver Fusion by about 10%.
Interface - The settings menu has been redesign for consistency.
Interface - All links are now colored to make them more distinguishable.
Interface - Most interface elements in health check and driver families now change their background color when you hover over them.
Resolved issues:
Interface - Localized dates could in some cases not display in accordance with the regional settings of Windows.
Interface - Adding a new outdated driver in health check could occasionally cause the interface to stop responding for a short time.

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Driver Fusion 2.6.0.0

New features:
[Premium] Device control & health check - Added diagnostic logging to provide easier troubleshooting. The log files are automatically stored in the log folder in the installation folder.
Changed features:
[Premium] Device control - Moved uninstall from driver overview to device overview.
[Premium] Device control - Added a small delay before searching for a device to improve performance on low-end machines.
[Premium] Device control - Identifying devices and downloading drivers can now be cancelled.
[Premium] Health check - It is now possible to scroll through the health categories during fixing.
[Premium] Health check - Exclude is now hidden during and after fixing.
[Premium] Health check - Improved the progress indication of downloading drivers by showing the progress per file instead of per driver.
[Premium] Health check - Identical drivers are no longer downloaded multiple times for different devices.
[Premium] Monitor - Support has been added for the latest Intel processors.
Interface - Improved sorting performance in data grids.
Interface - Many changes to improve perceived performance.
Interface - Added auto focus to all dialog screens.
Resolved issues:
[Premium] Device control - Device enable or disable showed an incorrect failed message.
[Premium] Device control - Confirmation warnings no longer have a delay after choosing the action.
[Premium] Device control - Uninstall could in some cases be hidden, especially with devices without drivers.
Health check - Adding an outdated drivers could occasionally cause Driver Fusion to freeze for a moment.
Health check - Outdated drivers could in some cases never detect any drivers, with special thanks to Jorn for testing.
Localization - Chinese (Simplified) was not automatically detected.
Interface - The border could occasionally not show around the window when it was not focused.

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Driver Fusion 2.7.0.0

New features:
[Premium] Health check - Community suggested feature - Added a progress indicator to visualize the device that is currently being fixed.
Changed features:
[Premium] Health check - Improved the ordering of missing and outdated drivers.
Desktop - Improved the performance of restoring the desktop icons.
Settings - The settings are now automatically saved after every change instead of only on close.
Service - The online service that allows you to gain access to several features, such as the automatic driver updated, has been completely rewritten. This new online service enables us to deploy new versions more easily without disrupting the service and is also more friendly to firewalls. The old online service will remain fully functional until February 1st, 2015. After this date only signing in with your email address and updating will remain functional for the old online service. As of Driver Fusion 2.7 the new online service will be used.
Resolved issues:
[Premium] Device control - Identify could in some cases not show any results.
[Premium] Device control - Reselecting a device could occasionally cause Driver Fusion to freeze or close unintentionally.
[Premium] Device control - The backed up driver text did not update after selecting another destination.
[Premium] Device control - Changing the sort order of online drivers could in some cases cause Driver Fusion to freeze or close unintentionally.
Desktop - Desktop icons could in some cases not restore to the correct location.

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Driver Fusion 2.8.0.0

New features:
[Premium] Device control & health check - Community suggested feature - The destinations for driver backups are now entirely shared. You can add new or delete existing destinations through the settings.
[Premium] Update - Community suggested feature - Added a progress indicator when updating Driver Fusion to a new version.
Interface - Community suggested feature - The dialog screens and menu are redesigned to improve usability.
Settings - Community suggested feature - The settings have been completely redesigned and reorganized with a focus on the ease of use. As a result, several settings have been changed or combined with other settings. Along with these improvements, the settings are now stored in another format that is less prone to error.
Changed features:
[Premium] Monitor - Community suggested feature - Improved the detection of the latest Intel CPUs.
[Premium] Device control - Community suggested feature - Install a driver now includes driver backups from all destinations.
[Premium] Device control - Improved the detection of corrupt driver backups.
Windows - Improved the compatibility with Windows 10.
Connectivity - Improved the detection of internet access.
Interface - Increased the width of the edges of the window to make it easier to resize.
Interface - Improved the performance, most noticeable on low-end machines.
Interface - On Windows XP, decreased the font size to match the font size of Windows Vista and higher.
Interface - The window location is now remembered per screen resolution.
Interface - Improved the positioning of menu buttons on small window sizes.
Resolved issues:
Starting/closing - Opening another instance of Driver Fusion could occasionally cause Driver Fusion to close unintentionally.
Desktop - Resolution and monitor information was not stored correctly.
Interface - On Windows XP, maximize would only maximize to one half of the screen.
Steam - Two Steam achievements could in some cases not unlock.

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Driver Fusion 2.9.0.0

Changed features:

Interface - Improved the responsiveness of history, desktop and filters.

Resolved issues:

[Premium] Device control & health check - Downloading drivers could in some cases get stuck at 0%.
[Premium] Device control - Changing the filters in the driver backup install dialog did not work.
Steam - The Tree Mulcher Steam achievement could occasionally cause Driver Fusion to close unintentionally.

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Driver Fusion 3.0

New features:

Interface - Community suggested feature - The menu has been redesigned to improve usability. It is now possible to go directly to each screen without having to select another tab first.
Interface - Added a help button to go directly to the manual.

Changed features:

[Premium] Device control - Added a progress indicator while scanning for hardware devices.
Driver family - Improved caching of installed driver families.
Driver family - The installed driver families will now automatically refresh after a delete operation.
Driver family - Added a progress indicator while scanning for installed driver families.
Driver family - History items are now saved even after cancelling the current operation.
Interface - Improved the responsiveness of driver family.
Interface - Improved font scaling of the notification bar.
Interface - The scrollbar is no longer invisible when it is disabled.
Interface - Many icon changes to clarify their function.
Localization - Community suggested feature - Added right-to-left language support.
Localization - Added Kazakh and Uzbek.

Resolved issues:

[Premium] Device control - Devices without compatible ids could occasionally cause Driver Fusion to freeze or close unintentionally.
[Premium] Device control - Changing between different sources in the driver backup install dialog could occasionally result in an empty title bar.
Desktop - The user name was not stored correctly for all languages.
Interface - A white line was occasionally rendered at the bottom of the window.
Steam - The Tree Mulcher Steam achievement could occasionally cause Driver Fusion to close unintentionally.
Filters - The new filter entry could also be added with cancel.
Filters - Multiple filters with the same name could be added.
Filters - Add new filter entry button could in some cases be visible without a selected filter.
Driver family - Scanning for installed driver family entries could in some cases get stuck at 0%.

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Driver Fusion 3.1

New features:
Windows - Driver Fusion is now fully compatible with Windows 10.
Localization - Added 5 new languages: Filipino (Philippines), Irish (Ireland), Sesotho sa Leboa (South Africa), Sinhalese (Sri Lanka), and Tajiki (Afghanistan and Tajikistan).
Driver family - Community suggested feature - Added a driver family for Rivet Networking, the company behind products such as the Killer E2200 and Killer E2400.
Driver family - Community suggested feature - The installed driver families option is now remembered. If you cancel while the installed driver families are loading, it will revert to all driver families.
Changed features:
[Premium] Device control & health check - Improved finding drivers, which increases the number of (outdated) drivers found on most systems.
[Premium] Device control - Improved the results and performance of device identifier.
[Premium] Monitor - Community suggested feature - Added support for the ITE IT8620E.
Interface - Community suggested feature - Most controls will now regain focus after it has been lost due to loading content.
Installer - The installer is now free from third party advertisements. You can read more about it here.
Resolved issues:
[Premium] Device control - Copying device or driver information to the clipboard could occasionally cause Driver Fusion to freeze or close unintentionally.
[Premium] Device control - Device overview could in some cases show unreadable device information.
[Premium] Device control - Unknown devices could in some cases be hidden from the user.
Health check - Outdated drivers could occasionally find the driver that was already installed.
Driver family - Deleting driver family entries could in some cases get stuck at 0%.
Interface - The verification dialog screen could occasionally focus on the wrong control.
Interface - The escape key did not always close the dialog screen.
Interface - The tab key could occasionally focus on controls behind the dialog screen.

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Driver Fusion 3.2

New features:
Driver family - Community suggested feature - Added a lot of new driver family entries for AMD graphic cards, NVIDIA graphic cards and NVIDIA PhysX. Driver Fusion is now again able to detect and delete everything of importance that is installed by their installers.
Changed features:
[Premium] Device control - Improved the results and performance of retrieving device and driver properties.
Driver family - Improved the reliability and performance of searching and deleting driver family entries.
Resolved issues:
[Premium] Device control & health check - A backup of a driver with a WHQL signature could occasionally show an unverified driver message during installation due to files being included that did not belong to the driver.
[Premium] Device control & health check - A backup of a driver that linked to another driver could in some cases not include all necessary files.
[Premium] Device control - A couple of device and driver properties were never listed.
[Premium] Device control - Retrieving device and driver properties could occasionally cause Driver Fusion to freeze or close unintentionally.
[Premium] Device control - Messages could in some cases be shown with incorrect punctuation.

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Driver Fusion 3.3

New features:
Health check - Community suggested feature - The driver backup destination can now be changed before scanning.
Health check - Community suggested feature - The severity of outdated drivers has been redesigned to make it more clear.
Localization - Improved the Italian translation.
Changed features:
Health check - Improved the responsiveness of the interface.
Health check - Improved the severity calculation for outdated drivers.
Health check - Driver backup will no longer list all existing driver backups. This is now identical to missing drivers and outdated drivers.
Resolved issues:
[Premium] Device control - The online driver install dialog could occasionally cause Driver Fusion to close unintentionally.
Health check - Driver backup could in some cases suggest to backup the same driver again.
Driver family - The installed driver families option could occasionally not be remembered.
Interface - The menu would not show tooltips when a right-to-left language is used.
Settings - Changing how Windows driver updates are installed could in some cases be ignored.
Settings - The incorrect positioning of confirmation notifications.
Settings - Changing the language could occasionally cause Driver Fusion to close unintentionally.

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Treexy Driver Fusion 5.0

• Interface and usability:
• We’ve been focusing our efforts on improving the interface and it’s usability and have redesigned almost everything. It’s still familiar to previous versions, so you won’t have to learn from scratch. An important highlight, by popular request, is that you can now search, filter and sort through content, almost everywhere! But that’s not all, it’s also possible to use Driver Fusion 5.0 with just your keyboard. We’ve added focus hints to all controls to make it easy to see where the current focus is. You’ll see how nifty all these changes are once you start using them.
• Health check:
• Up until now, there were two categories for downloading drivers; missing drivers and outdated drivers. As they did almost the same work, they have been combined into driver update. If you’re checking for driver updates, clarity is essential. We’ve been receiving a lot of feedback on why Driver Fusion is recommending certain drivers. Whenever a recommended driver is not undeniably clear, it will now add an explanation. Still having doubts? Feel free to contact us and we’ll help you out. At times you want to take a closer look at a device or its driver. You can now go directly to the device or its driver in device control. Another frequently requested feature we’ve added is that each recommended issue can now be fixed on its own. Don’t worry, you can still fix all issues at once.
• Device control:
• Starting with Windows Vista, there’s additional information available about a device or a driver. This information was already used throughout Driver Fusion and has now been added to device control. All available information – including the identifier – is now accessible immediately after selecting a device. Driver Fusion 5.0 also ships with several other important improvements to device control. If you want to install a driver it now includes compatible drivers from Windows’ driver store. For experts, we’ve also added the ability to uninstall a driver from Windows’ driver store. The driver signature verification is also significantly improved, both the results and the performance (on average a driver is now verified twice as fast).
• Device monitor:
• If you want to monitor your devices, Driver Fusion has always given you a variety of options to do so. The current sensor values are great for getting insight into your devices, but sometimes you want to visualize past performance as well. In Driver Fusion 5.0, we’ve added a graph – for each device – for the available sensor values. It’s super flexible, and will allow you to add just the sensors you want to display. We’ve also added additional information about each device, such as the socket of your processor, the BIOS version of your motherboard, and the reallocated sector count of your hard disks.
• Driver cleaner:
• Need to clean up old drivers or install a new driver? All drivers received new entries to be up-to-date with their latest versions. We’ve also added support to clean the device itself and entries from the task scheduler and Windows’ driver store. Several new drivers have also been added, including NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience software. In Driver Fusion 5.0 we separated entries that are shared between certain drivers. While cleaning those drivers – such as NVIDIA’s display driver and NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience – you can now decide whether you want to include their shared entries. We’ve also added a hint when drivers are combined by the manufacturer to support multiple devices, such as Logitech’s keyboard and mouse drivers.
• History:
• Sometimes you want to view or restore an operation you’ve performed in Driver Fusion. Our goal for Driver Fusion 5.0 was to create an easy to use – and complete – history of almost anything you can do. Whether you clean a driver or disable a device, you don’t have to worry anymore about the outcome as you can always undo the operation. In most cases, you want to restore the entire operation. Operations that are merely collection of other operations, such cleaning a driver, can also be restored separately. We’ve also visualized if the operations you performed succeeded.
• In driver cleaner: some installers cannot be restored because they are missing on your computer. This is not a limitation of Driver Fusion but due to how Windows or these installers are set-up. You can manually download the installer again.
• Settings and data:
• It’s good to have choices, like the ability to change the default preferences of Driver Fusion. In Driver Fusion 5.0 we’ve changed a few default preferences to their expected value. We’ve also combined several settings and – where applicable – extended their functionality throughout the entire application. A diagnostics report for troubleshooting can now be created from the general settings.
• To benefit from Windows’ file protection, Driver Fusion will now store its data in different folders. Data that can be shared among all users, such as driver backups, is written to the ProgramData folder. User-specific data, such as your settings, is written to the local AppData folder. This change also enables you to use Driver Fusion in multi-user environments without having to share your settings with everyone. If you want to override this behavior and have Driver Fusion store its data in the installation folder, you have to start Driver Fusion using the --p argument. This does not apply to the Steam edition, data will continue to be stored in the steamappscommon folder in order to utilize Steam Cloud.

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Treexy Driver Fusion 5.0.2

September 22, 2017
We’re pleased to present Driver Fusion 5.0! It’s been a while, but we’ve been working hard on bringing you this update. Our mission was to improve the performance, stability, usability and the offered features. You can read the highlights of these improvements below. We hope you like this version as much as we do!

Interface and usability
We’ve been focusing our efforts on improving the interface and it’s usability and have redesigned almost everything. It’s still familiar to previous versions, so you won’t have to learn from scratch. An important highlight, by popular request, is that you can now search, filter and sort through content, almost everywhere! But that’s not all, it’s also possible to use Driver Fusion 5.0 with just your keyboard. We’ve added focus hints to all controls to make it easy to see where the current focus is. You’ll see how nifty all these changes are once you start using them.

Health check
Up until now, there were two categories for downloading drivers; missing drivers and outdated drivers. As they did almost the same work, they have been combined into driver update. If you’re checking for driver updates, clarity is essential. We’ve been receiving a lot of feedback on why Driver Fusion is recommending certain drivers. Whenever a recommended driver is not undeniably clear, it will now add an explanation. Still having doubts? Feel free to contact us and we’ll help you out. At times you want to take a closer look at a device or its driver. You can now go directly to the device or its driver in device control. Another frequently requested feature we’ve added is that each recommended issue can now be fixed on its own. Don’t worry, you can still fix all issues at once.

Device control
Starting with Windows Vista, there’s additional information available about a device or a driver. This information was already used throughout Driver Fusion and has now been added to device control. All available information – including the identifier – is now accessible immediately after selecting a device. Driver Fusion 5.0 also ships with several other important improvements to device control. If you want to install a driver it now includes compatible drivers from Windows’ driver store. For experts, we’ve also added the ability to uninstall a driver from Windows’ driver store. The driver signature verification is also significantly improved, both the results and the performance (on average a driver is now verified twice as fast).

Device monitor
If you want to monitor your devices, Driver Fusion has always given you a variety of options to do so. The current sensor values are great for getting insight into your devices, but sometimes you want to visualize past performance as well. In Driver Fusion 5.0, we’ve added a graph – for each device – for the available sensor values. It’s super flexible, and will allow you to add just the sensors you want to display. We’ve also added additional information about each device, such as the socket of your processor, the BIOS version of your motherboard, and the reallocated sector count of your hard disks.

Driver cleaner
Need to clean up old drivers or install a new driver? All drivers received new entries to be up-to-date with their latest versions. We’ve also added support to clean the device itself and entries from the task scheduler and Windows’ driver store. Several new drivers have also been added, including NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience software. In Driver Fusion 5.0 we separated entries that are shared between certain drivers. While cleaning those drivers – such as NVIDIA’s display driver and NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience – you can now decide whether you want to include their shared entries. We’ve also added a hint when drivers are combined by the manufacturer to support multiple devices, such as Logitech’s keyboard and mouse drivers.

History
Sometimes you want to view or restore an operation you’ve performed in Driver Fusion. Our goal for Driver Fusion 5.0 was to create an easy to use – and complete – history of almost anything you can do. Whether you clean a driver or disable a device, you don’t have to worry anymore about the outcome as you can always undo the operation. In most cases, you want to restore the entire operation. Operations that are merely collection of other operations, such cleaning a driver, can also be restored separately. We’ve also visualized if the operations you performed succeeded.

In driver cleaner: some installers cannot be restored because they are missing on your computer. This is not a limitation of Driver Fusion but due to how Windows or these installers are set-up. You can manually download the installer again.

Settings and data
It’s good to have choices, like the ability to change the default preferences of Driver Fusion. In Driver Fusion 5.0 we’ve changed a few default preferences to their expected value. We’ve also combined several settings and – where applicable – extended their functionality throughout the entire application. A diagnostics report for troubleshooting can now be created from the general settings.

To benefit from Windows’ file protection, Driver Fusion will now store its data in different folders. Data that can be shared among all users, such as driver backups, is written to the ProgramData folder. User-specific data, such as your settings, is written to the local AppData folder. This change also enables you to use Driver Fusion in multi-user environments without having to share your settings with everyone. If you want to override this behavior and have Driver Fusion store its data in the installation folder, you have to start Driver Fusion using the --p argument. This does not apply to the Steam edition, data will continue to be stored in the steamapps\common folder in order to utilize Steam Cloud.

Operating systems support
Driver Fusion 5.0 will be the last update for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Microsoft itself ended support for Windows XP in 2014 and Windows Vista in the beginning of 2017. Unsupported operating systems receive no security updates, have known exploits, and can be dangerous to use. You can continue to use this version of Driver Fusion if you rely on these operating systems. The content service behind Driver Fusion will continue to work for the foreseeable future. We have disabled automatic updates on these operating systems. You do not need to do anything else.

5.0.1 and 5.0.2
These releases fix some minor issues and change the installer's compression to resolve the installer's false positive detection by certain antivirus software, such as Avast and AVG.

You play an important role in making Driver Fusion better. We welcome your feedback on this version, as well as any ideas you might have. Please contact us on our website.

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