Release Notes for Driver Magician Version 5.0
Contents

* What's New in 5.0
* What's New in 4.8
* What's New in 4.7
* What's New in 4.5
* What's New in 4.3
* What's New in 3.9
* What's New in 3.8
* What's New in 3.7
* What's New in 3.68
* What's New in 3.6
* What's New in 3.5
* What's New in 3.45
* What's New in 3.42
* What's New in 3.32
* What's New in 3.27
* What's New in 3.22
* What's New in 3.1
* What's New in 3.0
* What's New in 2.8
* What's New in 2.6
* What's New in 2.4
* What's New in 2.2
* What's New in 2.1
* What's New in 2.0
* What's New in 1.95
* What's New in 1.92
* What's New in 1.91
* What's New in 1.9
* What's New in 1.8
* What's New in 1.7
* What's New in 1.6
* What's New in 1.5
* What's New in 1.44
* What's New in 1.43
* What's New in 1.42
* What's New in 1.41
* What's New in 1.4
* What's New in 1.31
* What's New in 1.3
* What's New in 1.21
* What's New in 1.2
* Reporting Problems and Suggestions
* Installation Prerequisites
* Installation
* Removing an Installation

What's New in Driver Magician V5.0
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1. Some minor tweaks

What's New in Driver Magician V4.8
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1. Some minor tweaks

What's New in Driver Magician V4.7
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1. Support Windows 10
2. Some minor tweaks

What's New in Driver Magician V4.5
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1. Some minor tweaks

What's New in Driver Magician V4.3
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1. Some minor tweaks

What's New in Driver Magician V3.9
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1. Support Windows 8.1 
2. Some minor tweaks

What's New in Driver Magician V3.8
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1. Add more devices in unknown devices database
2. Some minor tweaks

What's New in Driver Magician V3.7
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1. Support Windows 8 
2. Some minor tweaks

What's New in Driver Magician V3.68
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1. Add more devices in drivers update database
2. Minor tweaks in software interface
 

What's New in Driver Magician V3.6
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1. Change software interface
2. Add more devices in drivers update database
3. Some minor tweaks 


What's New in Driver Magician V3.5
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1. Add more devices in drivers update database
2. Some minor tweaks 


What's New in Driver Magician V3.45
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1. Support Windows 7
2. Some minor tweaks 

What's New in Driver Magician V3.42
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1. Multi-language interface
2. Change drivers information in driver backup and driver restoration function 
3. Update drivers update database
4. Some minor tweaks 

What's New in Driver Magician V3.32
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1. Make some changes on driver restoration function
2. Support silent drivers restoration
2. Update unknown devices database and drivers update database
3. Fix a bug in driver update function
4. Some minor tweaks 

What's New in Driver Magician V3.27
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1. Rebuild drivers updates database and add about 30,000 hardware devices information
2. Fix a bug in the driver backup process
3. Make some interface changes
3. Some minor tweaks 


What's New in Driver Magician V3.22
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1. Improve user interface
2. Add device drivers uninstallation function
3. Support Window XP 64-Bit, Windows 2003 64-Bit and Windows Vista 64-Bit
4. Rewrite drivers update function
5. Fix a bug of memory leak
6. Update unknown devices database and drivers update database
7. Back up drivers of non-present devices
8. Some minor tweaks 


What's New in Driver Magician V3.1
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1. Fix the bug in unknown device device detector 
2. Fix the bug in unknown devices database
3. Add more device drivers in the drivers update database
4. Some minor improvement

What's New in Driver Magician V3.0
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1. Fix the bug in driver update database
2. Fix the bug in more back and restoration function
3. Add more device driver update information in the database
4. Some minor improvement

What's New in Driver Magician V2.8
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1. Update drivers database and unknown devices database
2. Some minor improvement

What's New in Driver Magician V2.6
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1. Update driver database
2. Update unknown devices database
3. Some minor improvement

What's New in Driver Magician V2.4
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1. Add more driver update information in the database
2. Some minor improvement

What's New in Driver Magician V2.2
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1. Add more driver update information in the database
2. Rewrite some parts of  the help file
3. Some minor improvement.  

What's New in Driver Magician V2.1
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1. Improve the accuracy of detecting unknown devices, devices not plugged in computer will not be listed in the device list although their driver files are in hard disk
2. Add the function of unknown device driver download
3. Update driver database
4. Some minor improvement.

What's New in Driver Magician V2.0
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Great changes in this version.
1. Add function of driver upgrade. With a built in database of the latest drivers, you can download the latest drivers to improve system performance and stability
2.  Add LiveUpdate function. LiveUpdate automates the process of obtaining and installing Driver Magician updates. It locates and obtains files from the Internet site of GoldSolution Software, installs them, and then deletes the leftover files from your computer.
3. Improve the compression speed.
4. Some minor improvement.

What's New in Driver Magician V1.95
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Update the device database
Some minor improvements

What's New in Driver Magician V1.92
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Update the device database
Some minor improvements

What's New in Driver Magician V1.91
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Update the device database
Some minor improvements

What's New in Driver Magician V1.9
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Add function of detecting unknown devices
some minor improvements


What's New in Driver Magician V1.8
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Change the algorithm of finding device drivers
Fix the error of deleting temporary empty folder
Some minor improvements

What's New in Driver Magician V1.7
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Adjust sequence of device driver restoration to improve system stability
Some minor improvements


What's New in Driver Magician V1.6
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Great changes in this version.
1. Add more backup options. You can back up driver in a compressed file, in a self-extractor or in an auto-setup package.
2. Add more restoration options. You can restore driver from a compressed file, from a self-extractor or from an auto-setup package. If drivers are backed up in an auto-setup package, you can restore driver like installing a software and without installing Diver Magician firstly.
3. Chang software interface, fix the interface bug in big font.
4. Fix some minor bugs.


What's New in Driver Magician V1.5
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Rewrite code of driver backup and improve accuracy of device detection, devices not currently plugged in computer will not be listed in the device list although their driver files are in hard disk
Change class description of each device to a detailed one
Fix bug in help file
Fix some minor bugs

What's New in Driver Magician V1.44
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Fix bug that driver version or driver date of some device driver can't be extracted in Windows 98/Me and Windows 2000
Fix bug caused by some special installation file path in Windows Me
Fix some minor bugs

What's New in Driver Magician V1.43
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Add backup and restoration of Outlook data
Change software interface
Fix bug in more backup faction
Fix some minor bug in driver backup

What's New in Driver Magician V1.42
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Fix runtime error bug after the program runs
Add class information for each device
Fix bug that backup process can't stop immediately
Fix some minor bugs 


What's New in Driver Magician V1.41
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Rewrite code of more backup function, add stop backup function
Fix bugs in driver backup function for some special inf file 
Fix some minor bug

What's New in Driver Magician V1.4
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Add support for Windows 2003
Rewrite driver backup code, greatly improve backup speed
Rewrite help documents
Fix some bug of driver restoration in Windows 98/Me
Fix some minor bug

What's New in Driver Magician V1.31
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Fix some bug in driver restoration function
Fix interface error 

What's New in Driver Magician V1.3
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Rewrite the code of driver restoration function in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, improve the stability of driver restoration greatly. Add directory memory in driver restoration function. Change backup and restoration of fonts to desktop. Fix some minor bugs. 

What's New in Driver Magician V1.21
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Name changed to Driver Magician. Add backup and restoration function of Outlook Express mail file folder, Outlook Express mail rule, Outlook Express mail accounts and Outlook Express address book. Fix the bug of dead circle while the device installation file doesn't exit. Fix the bug of directory error in some special path. Fixed some minor bugs. 

What's New in Driver Magician V1.2
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Change software interface greatly for easy use. Add driver restoration function. Add backup and restoration of my document folder, fonts folder, registry and Internet Explorer favorite folder. Fix some minor bugs.      

Reporting Problems and Suggestions
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Problem reports should include:

- System Configuration (CPU, RAM, OS)
- Detailed problem description (include exact error message text)
- How to reproduce problem


Installation Prerequisites
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* Microsoft Windows 10
* Microsoft Windows 8.1
* Microsoft Windows 8
* Microsoft Windows 7
* Microsoft Windows 2008
* Microsoft Windows Vista
* Microsoft Windows 2003
* Microsoft Windows XP
* Disk: 30 MB for full installation


Installation
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To install Driver Magician from downloaded. Double-click the Setup program, it will be start. The Setup program will issue a number of prompts. Unless you have a reason to override the defaults it is strongly recommended that you accept the installation default settings (just press OK, Yes, or Next, as appropriate).


Removing an Installation
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There are two ways to uninstall Driver Magician should you wish to do so.

Control Panel
Activate the Control Panel, double click Add/Remove Programs, and double click the Driver Magician list box entry.

Start Menu
From the Start menu, click Programs, then Driver Magician, and then Uninstall Driver Magician.

To remove this product, select Settings from the Windows Start menu. 
Select Control Panel, then run Add/Remove Programs. Files that were 
created after installation will not be removed automatically.



If you have any other questions please feel free to contact us at support@drivermagician.com

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