Last Updated on August 10, 2016 by Larious

If your work is dependent on a laptop or desktop and you want to enhance the performance of your equipment, it is important for you to update some or all of the device drivers installed in Windows for your computer hardware.

These six free driver updater programs highlighted by Jovago.com, Africa’s No 1 hotel booking portal will make keeping your drivers update very easy.

1.  Driver Booster

Driver Booster is one of the best free driver updater program you will find in the technology market. It’s compatible with Windows 7, 8, 8.1 as well as 10. Driver Booster can be scheduled to automatically find outdated drivers. When new updates are found, you can easily start downloading them from inside the Driver Booster program so you don’t need to go out to an Internet browser to grab them.

2.  Free Driver Scout

Free Driver Scout is a driver updater that provides real-time updating of drivers. The driver without the user prompting it will automatically scan for necessary updates, download it and install them. This is done automatically. As an added advantage, it will can also backup and restore drivers.

3.  SlimDrivers

This is a multifunctional driver updater. It can update drivers which are outdated, backup currently installed drivers and also uninstall drivers. If you want, you can create a schedule that SlimDrivers will follow to ensure that you have the latest or drivers for your system.

4.  DriverMax

Even though DriverMax is free, it has some few limitations. Despite this, it is still reliable. It can update and backup old drivers, and identify unknown hardware.

5.  Device Doctor

Device Doctor is a really simple and easy to use driver updater program. It can either be downloaded as a regular program or as a portable one that doesn’t need to be installed. You can also schedule scans to check for outdated drivers and then when an update is found, you’ll be taken to a website to manually download it.

6.  Snappy Driver Installer

With Snappy Driver installer, you can download multiple drivers at once for many different types of devices. After they’re downloaded, the program gives you immediate access to install the updates whether you are connected to the internet or not.