DriverPack Solution

About DriverPack Solution

The problem this solves appears every time a machine is rebuilt: the fresh installation has no network driver, so it cannot download a network driver. The full offline edition carries the entire driver library inside the image, which means a stick prepared in advance brings a machine from a bare installation to fully working hardware without any connection at all.

The scan identifies every device by its hardware identifier and matches it against the packs inside the image. Chipset, storage controller, network adapter, wireless, audio, graphics, card reader, touchpad, camera and the various unlabelled controllers that show as unknown devices all resolve from the same pass. Results are listed with the current and available versions before anything is installed.

Expert mode is the one to use. The default mode installs everything it finds along with a set of suggested applications, which is not what most people want. Expert mode shows the individual driver list with checkboxes, removes the bundled software suggestions entirely, and lets a restore point be created before the batch runs.

For anyone rebuilding machines regularly the practical setup is a large stick with the full image on it, kept alongside the installation media. A rebuild becomes install, run the pack, reboot, done, rather than an evening of hunting model numbers on a second machine. Individual driver packs can also be extracted from the image for a single stubborn device.

What is included in this build

• Complete driver library contained in the image with no connection required
• Hardware identifier based scanning rather than matching on displayed names
• Coverage across chipset, storage, network, wireless, audio, graphics and peripherals
• Expert mode listing individual drivers with checkboxes and no bundled software
• Restore point creation before a batch installation runs
• Runs from a USB stick on a machine with no network at all
• Individual driver packs extractable for a single device
• Support for releases from very old versions of Windows through to current ones

Changed in version 17.10.14-25060

• Driver packs refreshed against current hardware releases
• Improved detection of recent wireless and chipset devices
• Faster scanning on machines with many attached peripherals
• Expert mode interface reorganised for clearer per driver selection
• Reduced image size after removing obsolete packs

Installation walkthrough

These steps assume a clean machine. If a previous release of the same application is present, deal with that first, since an overlapping install is the most common cause of a setup that stops halfway.

1. Download the full offline edition rather than the small online launcher if the target machine has no connection.
2. Extract the image to a USB stick of 32 GB or larger.
3. Disable real-time protection on the target machine before running the launcher.
4. Choose expert mode, create a restore point, then select only the drivers actually needed.
5. Reboot after the batch completes and check device manager for anything still unresolved.

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