Driver Boost has been recommended numerous times in this forum to people having problems with Sonar.  It is supposed to check all your drivers for updates automatically.  It then, typically, reports when your driver are out of date, and has a function to update those drivers in one fell swoop.  I used this on my system, it reported 12 drivers out of date, and I let it update those drivers.  Fortunately, before I used it, I made a list of the out-of-date drivers, created a restore point, and let it update the drivers.  Unfortunately, it made my system inoperable after running it!  I was able to do a system restore and revert back to where I was before I started.  I, then, uninstalled Driver Boost and my system is running normally again.
 
Using the list that Driver Boost provided me, I manually went into Device Manager and checked each driver individually.  All 12 drivers that had been reported out-of-date were actually up-to-date.  I double checked these by going to the manufacturer's sites and verifying that my drivers were indeed the latest.
 
My words of caution to all:  if you use any free program that checks your computer for drivers, malware, adware, or any other bugaboo, beware!  They often/usually report that there are numerous problems with your machine, at which point they offer to sell you their "professional" version of their software to get rid of the problems.  If you don't buy their "pro" version, the free software often tends to behave like a virus on your system.  Unless you're particularly savvy, you may not realize these freebies are causing you problems.  To those who recommend this program, please realize that you may inadvertently be causing problems in people's operating systems, leaving them worse off than before.  If you do use these programs, remember to ALWAYS create a restore point first!  And, buyer beware!

Using software like that is very high up on my personal list of "dumbest things to do to your computer", probably right after "opening an email attachment with an EXE extension".

EDIT: In other words, this is very good advice!

As I have been outspoken in another thread and having many years of IT Sys Admin (Microsoft/Linux/Citrix) experience under my belt I would STRONGLY advise....
 
DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE.

1. Its not been tested thoroughly by trusted sources

2. Its a security risk

3. You COULD invalidate any warranty you have.

4. No software company you have a license for will begin to troubleshoot for you if you install third party drivers.

5. just dont go there, its for "power Users" (a professionals nightmare, nothing worse than a googler that "fixes their system")

6. PLEASE IF UNSURE DONT GO THERE!!! Many people know an IT professional and if you can ask their advice, if not, dont try and fix it via third party all in one "boosts" or "Fixes", the chances are you will end up with a problem even greater than where you started.

7. Use the tried and tested routes. Forums like this give great advice but ALWAYS check with official documentation first such as Sonars and Microsofts for a start.

8. You have been warned!
 

I had the same problem Lynn. Only, I forgot the "create a restore point" wisdom and spent quite a while getting my puter back to normal. Driver boost is a driver bust.

Software like this can be useful if- and i stress if- you pay close attention to the entire process. Wildly clicking  without reading can get you in trouble   Definitely make sure you have a restore point created.  Resist offers for "upgrades" and disable any "automatic" features. Since most people are using something like this as a shortcut it is easy to overlook a minor detail that can cause bigger issues later.  I tried this program.  It did what it said it was going to do, but there were several times missteps could have occurred if I did not catch them.

For what it's worth, I completely agree with all said in this thread, especially from the previous IT sys admin.  I own a small business tech support business and constantly recommend against this general sort of software.  Even if it means well (which it often doesn't), it usually doesn't work in every case and when it comes to drivers, a sure-fire way to completely screw a PC system is to install inappropriate drivers, especially a dozen at a time.
 
Stay away from this or any "speed boosting", "registry cleaning", optimizing, or whatever software.  There are some out there that actually work, but you have to weed through the thousands that don't in order to get to them.  I don't know a lot about my car, so I don't try to fix it by pouring in $19.95 worth of some sort of unknown liquid.  The same should be observed with your PC, especially if you use it to earn a living!

On the whole I agree about what is said about weirdo third party utils, however in DriverBoosts case what I see it works for some people but not for others... simple as that. It has to be used... carefully...

At the end of the day there is absolutely no substitute for going to third party websites and investigating yourself, all applications produce false positives and to be honest if it says your machine needs 10 drivers updating I would stand back and wonder if there has been a misdetection somehow (but that's just me). Number one piece of advice though - backup. Even legit drivers can screw your system.

Yes I would never use something that had not come from a 'Trusted Source'. I prefer to rely on myself to update software when, and if, I want to. Of late I've even started to shy away from MS Updates, I'm content to delay and wait and see how other fare. OTH: I always update the 'virus dictionary' for my security software.
 
Sorry that Lynn had such a poor experience.
Regards,

CakeAlexS
 - backup. Even legit drivers can screw your system.

 
This is especially true with workstations designed for a primary purpose like video or audio editing. If your system is working fine as is, updating drivers can cause nightmares.  A co-worker once totally fried an Avid syetm just by innocently updating the version of Quicktime.  Turns out the version of Avid at that time had a conflict with the new version  and would not work even after we tried to rollback.

dubdisciple
Software like this can be useful if- and i stress if- you pay close attention to the entire process. Wildly clicking  without reading can get you in trouble   Definitely make sure you have a restore point created.  Resist offers for "upgrades" and disable any "automatic" features. Since most people are using something like this as a shortcut it is easy to overlook a minor detail that can cause bigger issues later.  I tried this program.  It did what it said it was going to do, but there were several times missteps could have occurred if I did not catch them.

You allege that most people are using "something like this as a shortcut", but I wonder about that statement.  Do you have any statistics to back that up?  As you point out, resist offers to "upgrade" and disable any "automatic" features.  Yet, that is the raison d'etre of these programs.  If one has to be SO extremely careful when using a program like this, then it's likely BOGUS to begin with.  And btw, I doubt that "wildly clicking without reading" is the heart of this problem, what reading material are you referring to?  The instructions for this program are fairly straight-forward.