DriverStore Explorer Changelog

What's new in DriverStore Explorer 0.11.92

Jan 4, 2023
  • Add support for extension id and improve logging.
  • Update dependency packages.
  • Turkish Language.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.11.79 (Apr 6, 2022)

  • Update to require .NET Framework 4.5.2.
  • Fix driver export error on Windows 11.
  • Update translation for es-ES.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.11.72 (Apr 12, 2021)

  • Update translation for Italian, Ukrainian.
  • Fix a few exceptions.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.11.64 (Nov 17, 2020)

  • Japanese and Korean translation updates.
  • Add Keyboard shortcut support.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.11.56 (Nov 4, 2020)

  • Right to left UI improvements.
  • New Hebrew translation and other translation updates.
  • Boot critical drivers are now excluded from "Select Old Driver(s)".
  • Driver list check/uncheck performance improvements.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.11.42 (Oct 5, 2020)

  • Add Arabic and Traditional Chinese language support.
  • Update Portuguese and Polish translation.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.11.37 (Sep 30, 2020)

  • Update German, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian translation.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.11.31 (Sep 21, 2020)

  • Light blue highlight for checked rows in driver list view.
  • Support export all drivers to a folder.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.11.26 (Sep 16, 2020)

  • Add Polish language support.
  • Update Korean language translation.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.11.20 (Aug 14, 2020)

  • Prevent error crash Driver Store Explorer.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.11.18 (Aug 8, 2020)

  • German translation update.
  • Handle network error properly for about dialog.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.11.13 (Aug 6, 2020)

  • By default save the log file to the same directory of the exe.
  • Some UI updates.
  • Language translation updates.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.58 (Nov 8, 2019)

  • Cleanup old config when a new version runs the first time.
  • Strong sign the assembly so the config path is consistent.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.54 (Aug 13, 2019)

  • Korean and Portuguese translation.
  • Fix sorting exception when driver version is malformed.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.51 (Jul 31, 2019)

  • Use pnputil on Win 7 as some DISM version seems buggy.
  • Uninstall DCH drivers when force option is used.
  • Spanish support and minor translation updates.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.43 (Jul 9, 2019)

  • Language translation updates.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.39 (Jun 13, 2019)

  • Fix a pnputil parsing bug

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.35 (Jun 11, 2019)

  • Fallback to pnputil if Dism is not available on target system.
  • German and Italian translation available.
  • Handle http exception in About Box.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.28 (Jun 7, 2019)

  • Move from PnpUtil to Dism and native API.
  • Check for new version in About Box.
  • Localization updates.
  • Code analysis issue fix.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.21 Pre-release (Apr 24, 2019)

  • Move from PnpUtil to Dism and native API.
  • Check for new version in About Box.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.15 (Mar 12, 2019)

  • Include device name in csv export.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.13 (Mar 7, 2019)

  • Show device associated with driver.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.12 (Mar 6, 2019)

  • Show device associated with driver.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.10 (Feb 28, 2019)

  • Improve error handling.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.9 Pre-release (Feb 21, 2019)

  • Add support for offline driver store.
  • Now the tool always run as admin.
  • A few language related fixes.
  • Trying to fix HiDPI issue by mark the app as DPI-aware.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.4 Pre-release (Feb 19, 2019)

  • Add support for offline driver store.
  • Note: this version contains a lot of changes and may be buggy.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.10.3 Pre-release (Feb 12, 2019)

  • Update to use DISM API.
  • Now it always requires Admin permission, Install Driver and Force Remove functionality is gone.
  • Add support for offline driver store.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.9.39 (Dec 26, 2018)

  • Implement open the folder location menu for driver entry。

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.9.35 (Nov 28, 2018)

  • Auto resize column to fit header and content size.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.9.34 (Nov 27, 2018)

  • Save UI state and restore after open.
  • Support shift + click column to sort driver list within group.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.9.30 (Nov 26, 2018)

  • Auto resize button to fit text

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.9.29 (Nov 24, 2018)

  • Add support for Japanese and Russian.
  • Save user language setting.
  • Fixed a few UI issue.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.9.21 (Nov 17, 2018)

  • Add multi language support, currently support French and Simplified Chinese.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.9.10 (Apr 17, 2018)

  • Show original driver inf name in popups and status bar.
  • Ignore entries in driver store if we don't have permission to read it

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.9.6 (Apr 13, 2018)

  • Fix crash caused by System.Drawing.Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon can't handle network path.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.9.5 (Feb 16, 2018)

  • Bug fix for "RunAsAdmin" feature

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.9.4 (Feb 14, 2018)

  • Persist "RunAsAdmin" state to registry
  • Bug fix for "Select Old Drivers" feature

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.8.4.2 (Sep 20, 2017)

  • Update "Select old drivers" to only pick older drivers by driver class, package provider, inf name.
  • Use Appveyor to build and publish new releases

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.8.4.1 (Aug 25, 2017)

  • Fix exception during export.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.8.4 (Jun 30, 2017)

  • Show selected driver size.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.8.3 (Apr 9, 2017)

  • Update icon.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.8.2 (Apr 9, 2017)

  • Automatically group on sort column.
  • Update About dialog to support links.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.8 (Apr 9, 2017)

  • Improve PnpUtil result parsing logic for Russian language and error handling.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.7 (Apr 9, 2017)

  • Group the drivers by Driver Class. Fix sorting.
  • Show estimated disk usage for drivers.
  • Bug fixes.

New in DriverStore Explorer 0.6 (Apr 9, 2017)

  • Now requires .Net 4.0.
  • Move ObjectListView source code dependency to NuGet package.
  • A few UI tweaks and code cleanup.