Should I remove UpdateStar Drivers?
What percent of users and experts removed it?
24% remove it76% keep it
What do people think about it?
(click star to rate)
How common is it?
Global Rank #11,661
United States Rank #25,692
Reach 0.0285%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 14.73 days
434.58 days >
Average installed length: 228.34 days
Versions
| Version | Distribution |
| 9.0.0 |
3.03% |
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| 8.1.0 |
4.63% |
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| 8.0.0 |
2.67% |
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| 7.0.0 |
59.00% |
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| 6.2.0 |
11.41% |
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| 6.0.0 |
6.42% |
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| 5.0.0 |
9.45% |
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| 4.1.0 |
3.03% |
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UpdateStar Drivers
from UpdateStar GmbH
What is UpdateStar Drivers?
UpdateStar is a freeware software application recognizing and providing update information for approximately 1.3 million software programs. Implementing a social computing aspect, the update database is maintained by the users. UpdateStar uses advertising to refinance the free service and shares ad revenue 50/50 with the software authors via their Share program. The software search engine at http://www.updatestar.com/ is actually built on top of UpdateStar’s user generated software and up-to-date program database. Via the ad revenue sharing program Share, UpdateStar allows and motivates developers to use the UpdateStar website as a download mirror to participate from ad revenue created on their program’s webpages.
Overview
The most used version is 7.0.0, with over 98% of all installations currently using this version. Upon installation, it defines an auto-start registry entry which allows the program run on each boot for the user which installed it. The main program executable is drivers.exe. The software installer includes 4 files and is usually about 7.84 MB (8,221,129 bytes).
Program details
URL: client.updatestar.com
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\UpdateStar Drivers
Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\UpdateStar Drivers\uninstall.exe
Estimated size: 7.84 MB
Files installed by UpdateStar Drivers
| Program executable: | drivers.exe |
| Name: | UpdateStar Drivers |
| Path: | C:\Program Files\UpdateStar Drivers\drivers.exe |
| MD5: | 7b945c8448883f0995c58e28d557c35a |
Additional files:
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Resource.dll - UpdateStar Drivers
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uninstall.exe
Behaviors exhibited
Scheduled Task (Boot/Login)
- drivers.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named drivers.
Startup File (User Run)
- drivers.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'UpdateStar Drivers' and executes as C:\Program Files\UpdateStar Drivers\drivers.exe.
How do I remove UpdateStar Drivers?
You can uninstall UpdateStar Drivers from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
- On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
- Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
- When you find the program UpdateStar Drivers, click it, and then do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
- Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
- Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove UpdateStar Drivers.
OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 60%
Win Vista 0%
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WHEN IT STARTS
Auto-starting? Yes
(Found in the run registry)
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USER ACTIONS
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Uninstall it 24%
Keep it 76%
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Windows
Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
| Windows 7 |
63.28% |
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| Windows 10 |
27.27% |
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| Windows Vista |
5.53% |
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| Windows XP |
3.92% |
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Which OS releases does it run on? |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
36.09% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
12.93% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
11.85% |
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| Windows 8.1 |
9.52% |
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| Windows Vista Home Premiu... |
5.21% |
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| Windows 10 Home |
5.03% |
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Geography
60.11% of installs come from Germany
Which countries install it?
| Germany |
60.11% |
| United States |
11.17% |
| Italy |
1.77% |
| France |
1.60% |
| Austria |
1.24% |
| Netherlands |
1.24% |
| Taiwan |
1.06% |
| DK |
1.06% |
| United Kingdom |
1.06% |
| MA |
0.89% |
| Russia |
0.89% |
| DZ |
0.89% |
| Canada |
0.89% |
| Poland |
0.89% |
PC manufacturers
What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
| Medion |
19.67% |
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| Hewlett-Packard |
18.33% |
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| Acer |
18.00% |
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| Dell |
11.00% |
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| ASUS |
9.67% |
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| Samsung |
5.67% |
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| GIGABYTE |
5.00% |
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| Toshiba |
4.33% |
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| Lenovo |
3.67% |
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| Intel |
1.67% |
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| Sahara |
1.67% |
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| American Megatrends |
1.33% |
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Common models |
| MEDIONPC MS-7502 |
4.95% |
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| HP Pavilion g7 Notebook P... |
2.75% |
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| ASUS All Series |
2.20% |
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| HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook ... |
2.20% |
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| MEDIONPC MS-7646 |
1.65% |
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| Acer Aspire X1301 |
1.65% |
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