What are the "DriverPacks"?

Each DriverPack is a package of drivers for a particular category of hardware. There are for example DriverPacks for Sound devices and for Graphics devices. For each of these DriverPacks we include every device driver of that category. On top of that, we solve tricky problems — such as driver conflicts — for you.

They are intended to be used while creating a Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista or Windows 7 installation disc/image. We also provide you with the software to make that as simple as possible.

Your Windows installation disc doesn't have drivers for all hardware, and over time the drivers it does have get out-of-date.

We've built this to simplify the lives of network administrators and employees of pc shops, but also enthusiast pc users.

Sounds cool? Then explore our downloads and come and say hi in our forum!

Merry Christmas

Posted on Sat, 12/24/2011 - 21:30 by BigBrit

A Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year to all of our users.

A major thanks to all the programmers and contributors
for making our lives and jobs easier with both XP and W7.

Enjoy your family, children and friends. Eat lots of yummy turkey and potatoes.

If you must drive over Christmas please take care of yourselves and loved ones.

For all our users who have to work over the holiday season to keep us warm and
our lights working, many, many thanks.

Enjoy and see you all next year.

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Forums reopened to new users...for now.

Posted on Mon, 11/21/2011 - 20:47 by mr_smartepants

We've upgraded the forum software and migrated all the posts to the new site.
The change gives the forums a new look.  Some will love it, some will hate it.
Either way, it was necessary in order to combat the scourge of the internet...the spambots.

So now the forums have been reopened to new users.
Come on in! 

However, if the spambots are able to circumvent our countermeasures, then we'll be forced to relock the forums and use alternative measures for account creation.

There may be minor bugs that need fixing as a result of the migration.  Please let us know of any problems you find.

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Forums closed to new user registrations

Posted on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 21:22 by mr_smartepants

We have been forced to lock the forums to new registrations due to the violent increase in spambot registrations.
To protect the forums from these unwelcome intrusions, we have had to resort to temporarily locking out all new user registrations until the server can be insulated against these new vulnerabilities.
Please be patient while the server administrators work to fix the problem.

The forums will remain closed to new registrations until they are fixed.
No estimated time to completion is given.  We may be forced to wait for days, weeks or months.

Current users are unaffected, and may post normally.
DriverPacks will continue to remain available for torrent download.
Lurkers may read & search normally.

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Holiday season updates

Posted on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 11:41 by mr_smartepants

Many new DriverPacks were released recently. 
Thank you to everyone who posted bug reports in our forums.  You've helped make DriverPacks even better!
As usual, these DriverPacks have passed our testing-team's rigorous testing methods.

Many people continue to ask the question: "Why are the downloads only torrents now?" or "What happened to the direct downloads?"
Well, the answer is simple and has not changed:

"Greed killed the DriverPacks downloads."

Bit Torrent is now our sole means of distribution.  Our donations dropped to a level that would no longer sustain the website AND download demands.
High-speed dedicated download servers are expensive and were the first to go.  Then we lost our donated CDN bandwidth.  Bit Torrent is now our only option left.

So, if you find DriverPacks useful AND you make money from their use (Enterprise/Commercial use), please strongly consider [url=http://driverpacks.net/donate]donating[/url] a fraction of your profits to DriverPacks to help sustain the efforts.
Donations have always been voluntary, but money is getting scarce.
As an alternative to donating money, many have volunteered to donate bandwidth by setting up a Bit Torrent Seed Server.  More information is at the bottom of this page: [url]http://driverpacks.net/donate[/url]

With the holidays and cold weather coming over the next few months, development of the DriverPacks will probably increase as the team spends less time outdoors and huddle up with our warm computers.

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Spring Cleaning

Posted on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 20:37 by mr_smartepants

Many new DriverPacks were released in the past few weeks.  The culmination of fixing numerous bugs reported in the forums and routine updates.
Thank you to everyone who posted bug reports in our forums.  You've helped make DriverPacks even better!
As usual, these DriverPacks have passed our testing-team's rigorous testing methods.

Many people have asked the question: "Why are the downloads only torrents now?" or "What happened to the direct downloads?"
Well, the answer is simple:
Greed killed the DriverPacks downloads. 

Bit Torrent is now our sole means of distribution.  Our donations dropped to a level that would no longer sustain the website AND download demands.
High-speed dedicated download servers are expensive and were the first to go.  Then we lost our donated CDN bandwidth.  Bit Torrent is now our only option left.

So, if you find DriverPacks useful AND you make money from their use (Enterprise/Commercial use), please strongly consider [url=http://driverpacks.net/donate]donating[/url] a fraction of your profits to DriverPacks to help sustain the efforts.
Donations have always been voluntary, but money is getting scarce.
As an alternative to donating money, many have volunteered to donate bandwidth by setting up a Bit Torrent Seed Server.  More information is at the bottom of this page: [url]http://driverpacks.net/donate[/url]

With the fair weather coming over the next few months, development of the DriverPacks will slow down as the team spends more time outdoors with our families and friends.

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