Drivergeek v0.5 Beta 1 (previously DriverForge)

DriverGeek v0.5 Beta 1

//-- Download --//
http://drop.io/wanderingit -- click DriverGeek for the beta download

//-- Version History --//
v0.5b1 - 2010-04-30 - Beta 1 for public trials

//-- Introduction --//
DriverGeek was designed from the ground up to be an easy and intelligent driver installation tool; replacing the aging tool DriverForge. It will automatically find and install all hardware drivers based on the driver paths that you select. The current version of DriverGeek will run in all supported x86 Windows operating systems (2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7 and PE's based on these); an x64 version will be released in the future but has not been compiled yet.

//-- Usage --//
To use the program is simple. Edit the dgconfig.ini file to set your configuration and then run the program to install the drivers. The first time you run the program it will create the dgconfig.ini file with all options. It will then open the ini file for you to edit it. Save the ini file when you are done editing. The ini lives in the same root directory as the program. You can use environment variables in your search paths. To put it into perspective the only option you really need to supply is for the section [Drivers] and a uncompressed drivers path for the option DriverSearchPaths. The settings below can be configured:

[Main]
; Run without prompts and progress even if prompts help, this has not been fully implemented, only for tooltips
; Blank defaults to 0 = No, 1 = Yes

RunSilent=

; Reboot after install completes
; Blank defaults to 0 = No, 1 = Yes

Reboot=

; Show Windows Device Manager during installation, it will close when driver installs have finished
; Blank defaults to 0 = No. 1 = yes

ShowDeviceManager=

; DpInst.exe is used in installing the drivers to the system. If DPInst.exe cannot be found or supplied the
; program will ask if you would like to default to Windows 2000/XP/2003 x86 default driver installation method
; using Rundll32.exe
; The temporary folder for running DPinst.exe from is deleted when the program exits
; Blank defaults to %temp%\drivergeek\bin

DPInstPath=

; Accept Software EULA, you must accept the EULA to run the program
; Blank defaults to 0 = No, 1 = Yes

AcceptEula=

[Drivers]
; Search Paths, multiple paths, or even INF file(s), separated via Pipe symbol
; Environment variables work with this option.

DriverSearchPaths=C:\D|C:\Windows\inf

; The software will automatically append the current programs directory your driver search path
; Blank defaults to 1 = Yes, 0 = No

ScanScriptDir=

; Search drives found, options are:
; ----> ALL, CDROM, Removable, Ramdisk, Fixed, Network (and Unknown, but shouldn't need to be used)
; The option "All" will take the place of needing to enter the rest of the options and will add all drives found
; You can add one or multiple, separating them with a Pipe symbol
; Blank will not search any "drives" for drivers

DriverSearchDrives=CDROM|REMOVABLE|RAMDISK

; Has not been implemented but will allow extraction of compressed drives from the path supplied
; and then extracted and installed from. This feature has not been implemented yet. The extracted drivers
; path will be appended to the DriverSearcPaths option.
; If a compressed drivers path is specified and a extract path is not the program will default
; to extract to %temp%\drivergeek\drivers and will be deleted after drive installation has completed
; If the program cannot extract to any directory extraction will be terminated, if no other driver
; path is specified the program will exit

CompressedDriversPath=
ExtractDriversPath=

Last edited by stamandster (2010-05-02 05:27:46)