What is Driver Booster?

Driver Booster is software application developed by IObit. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 61.78% of installations running this operating system. Driver Booster's installer is typically 650.00 MB in size and installs around 123 files. The most common release is 1.4 with 20.36% of all installations currently using this version.

Driver Booster is most popular in the United States with 40.24% of installations residing in this country.

Driver Booster adds 3 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Driver Booster is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:

DriverBooster.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\IObit\Driver Booster\DriverBooster.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

DriverBooster.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (enbec)'.
SkipUacExec.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{508F5BCF-F7A1-4495-9FE9-DDF618F51DDF}' (runs on registration).
unins000.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{9F39C5BF-7841-4895-A152-18A437152873}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

Scheduler.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Driver Booster Scheduler.
DriverBooster.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Driver Booster Startup.
AutoUpdate.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Driver Booster Update.

Registry entries:

DriverBooster.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Driver Booster' and executes as C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\IObit\DRIVER BOOSTER\DRIVERBOOSTER.EXE.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.iobit.com

Support:

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Installation path:

C:\Program Files\IObit\Driver Booster\

Uninstaller:

"C:\Program Files\IObit\Driver Booster\unins000.exe"

Size:

650.00 MB

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