Snappy Driver Installer (uses Driverpacks)

bledd · 24 Mar 2015 at 10:56

Normally, I will install drivers individually, but you get the odd one that can be hard to find.

This tool is awesome. It needs about 10GB of space to hold all the drivers, so it's worth keeping it on a large USB stick or external drive.

http://snappy-driver-installer.sourceforge.net/en/index.php

The tool itself is tiny.

Quite a few similar programs out there, but they usually try and bundle in extra things with them.

Great tool

And yes, the website is criminally poor

HEADRAT · 24 Mar 2015 at 11:32

Interesting, will try it later.

Stoner81 · 24 Mar 2015 at 13:32

Been using it for months at work and it's freakin' epic! I have had one or two issues with it though to some extent but it could be the machine being picky. For example the HP DC7900 won't install the audio driver via SDI since it's not signed so I had to get it from the HP website (I think the DC7800 is the same too).

Other than though it's superb! As I understand it the guy who makes it was a developer of DriverPack Solutions and he went off and wrote his own app from scratch.

Stoner81.

LizardKing · 24 Mar 2015 at 14:08

Stoner81 said:
Other than though it's superb! As I understand it the guy who makes it was a developer of DriverPack Solutions and he went off and wrote his own app from scratch.

Stoner81.

That was a great bit of software! if a little buggy and never quite comfortable with it changing windows logo and a few other bits unless you dug through the settings to tell it not to!

Will check out the OP, these tools are handy to have on the network drive!

bledd · 24 Mar 2015 at 14:10

^Providing you've got a working network driver

JoeF1 · 24 Mar 2015 at 14:17

LizardKing said:
Will check out the OP, these tools are handy to have on the network drive!

Just done exactly this. Downloading the DP's now.

Thanks OP nice little find.

LizardKing · 24 Mar 2015 at 14:19

bledd. said:
^Providing you've got a working network driver

there is that

thankfully these days its a rare occurrence with pre built systems!

Goose · 24 Mar 2015 at 14:45

Noob question alert: Would this be a suitable tool for using on laptops?

Deleted member 77746 · 24 Mar 2015 at 14:49

Goose said:
Noob question alert: Would this be a suitable tool for using on laptops?

Does laptops require drivers?

bledd · 24 Mar 2015 at 15:38

Goose said:
Noob question alert: Would this be a suitable tool for using on laptops?

Especially useful on laptops, they tend to have more obscure hardware which this thing picks up..

Because of the shotgun blast approach, there is always a possibility of installing an incorrect driver, so bear that in mind.

I use it on a fresh install. I'd take a backup before running it on a working system.

Goose · 24 Mar 2015 at 16:15

mrbell1984 said:
Does laptops require drivers?

Aye, but as bledd said laptops can be a bit weird

tipes · 24 Mar 2015 at 16:39

Thanks Bledd - will give this a go, looks useful.

Stoner81 · 24 Mar 2015 at 20:43

Goose said:
Noob question alert: Would this be a suitable tool for using on laptops?

I have found it to work very well on laptops but I mainly deal with HP and Dell machines at work. The main thing it doesn't find is the Hot Key Support software for some of the HP machines but that isn't really a driver per se.

Other than that though it is fantastic! Been a ton of updates since I started using it and it gets better and better.

Stoner81.

linktoinsanity · 25 Mar 2015 at 19:48

Nice find Bledd, just used this tool on one of my old laptops, works great. Thanks for the heads up.

bledd · 25 Mar 2015 at 22:01

New version just came out

I'd highly recommend using the torrent download.

http://snappy-driver-installer.sourceforge.net/en/download.php

Puppetmaster · 26 Mar 2015 at 19:04

Will have to try that, previously been using some dodgy Russian one with all the crap removed

Deleted member 77746 · 28 Mar 2015 at 14:19

Goose said:
Aye, but as bledd said laptops can be a bit weird

desktops can be strange too.

bledd · 8 Apr 2015 at 12:50

New version out.

Behemoth · 9 Apr 2015 at 11:46

This is exactly what I need to give my Mrs her horrid Samsung Laptop back !

Stoner81 · 9 Apr 2015 at 13:46

R199 is out now along with some new driver packs

Stoner81.