Driverpacks solution - Safe?

BadPointer uses all techniques at his disposal to integrate drivers, It's a positive and a negative. The end result is the true test. Perhaps you can test and tell us. IDK why BadPointer uses other methods to force drivers. My belief is that feedback from his users results in options to install drivers in more forceful ways. IF that driver is really really needed then it's a good thing. If we are forcing a driver just so we have bragging rights on a version number then it is a very bad thing.

We have limited feedback on the app. the two or three OP's we have had visit here were happy.

Our project (SAD, Stand Alone Driverpacks) uses MS's dpinst.exe and is the recommended way to install drivers. It's not perfect, as with many things Microsoft releases. But the whole install process is run with the recommended MS tool. Only the log file is left behind

depending on what is changed and how also can it be undone / restored, is there a negative effect?
I like to think "do no harm"... if you think like me and you believe harm was done then you have answered your own question.

I don't know enough about it to be sure what is best for you. I hope to test it myself.
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never hurts to test it out on a bench machine .

Please let us know what YOU think.

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Thanks for the heads up, I'll keep the program in mind. I've used driverpack solution a few times now and it seems ok as long as I select 'drivers only'. With that, I don't see the OEM brand changed or anything (unless there's something going on in the background installing spyware or something, but who knows these days?)

I've bookmarked your tool for future use. thanks

Tried downloading your pack (7.8GB) and malwarebytes blocks the site. Should I be concerned?

Last edited by snowber (2014-10-24 04:44:37)

Driveroff.net - 195.189.227.34:18929

As soon as I click on the 7.8 GB link

EDIT: Scratch that, hovering over the link, I see that it's a torrent. Makes sense as to why MBAM would block it. Probably safe, though

Last edited by snowber (2014-10-24 05:07:22)

It tends to block known torrent sites in my experience, which I usually just hit exclude on and keep going

Hi there,

i luckily found snappy driver installer while browsing driverpacks forum instead of using SAD2 - which is also nice - i gave SDI a shot and it worked for me fine too by using the old 2012 driverpacks.net packages as used for long time . in former times i used DP-BASE to integrate into smooth windowsXP cd's but stopped this end of 2008 and only kept using SAD1/2 with driverpacks  on later windows7 machines instead of integrating into setup windows7 iso's .

anyways...long story short. while i always like to be on the cutting edge way of using driverpacks i saw "accidentally" that there are some russian or whatever/whereever they are located projects with "newer" driverpacks, so i did little google search and saw that SamLab provides SamDrivers 14.9 and another project with modified ISO DRP_14.9 etc.

if comparing those ISO's it seem that the driverpacks inside extracted are byte-wise/checksum the "same" so could/can be used with SDI , the same are downloaded via SDI directly i think .

I would like to have the "retail" original Driverpacks 14.9 pack, so what/where to take, if googleing i get on several sites saying "we are the original ISO"...

what i downloaded so far - and most of those ISOs are obviously modified afterwards e.g. like fileid.diz in former times and modified directories inside aswell. i have downloaded for the moment 2 8gb ISO files :

DRP_14.9.ISO ,

SamDrivers_14.9.ISO

both contain the 14.9 driverpacks which are from naming similar to the driverpacks.net files as you know by yourselves. So who's the original author and who's "fake" , i dont like at all those many .ISO packs spreading around the internet ;-)

will provide SHA1/checksums later . the DRP_14.9.iso i think i took from some .torrent . The SamDrivers_14.9.iso i think i took from http://samlab.ws/soft/samdrivers/   but i cant remember at all, perhaps it was some separate site cause samlabs is .ru and no direct links there

perhaps one of you guys can bring "light" into the "dark" ;-)

EDIT: i think i took one of the ISO from german chip website :

http://www.chip.de/downloads/DriverPack … 88628.html
author :  Artur Kuzyakov (samlabs?)

thanks!
ben

Last edited by raummusik (2014-10-30 02:17:41)

It would appear that others are free to use either project for their own purposes.
It might be best to obtain the packs directly from those that create them.

Where does SamLab.ws recommend obtaining his packs from for use with DP_Solution or Bad_Pointer's SDI?
Where does BadPointer recommend obtaining DriverPacks?

I prefer this project here, yet i dare not to deny the value of competing projects.

(edited to spell BadPointer's name correctly)

Last edited by TechDud (2014-10-30 05:55:31)

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It's the original ISO.

SamLab releases new SamDrivers each month and updated driverpacks are uploaded at http://driveroff.net/category/dp/ each week.

SDI can download latest SamLab's driverpacks via its integrated mini torrent client. This way you can keep driverpacks up to date.

Last edited by BadPointer (2014-11-01 07:12:54)