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Where are the drivers in windows 7. Drivers for Windows

When the drivers are installed on the PC, its files are copied to the system disk. Moreover, the name and number of files may differ. In addition, their location also depends on the type of driver. Often the OS distributes them across different folders that are located in the Program Files or Windows directories.

Sometimes you need to find the location of these files, find out their names. This may be necessary when uninstalling them, as well as installing identical drivers on another device.

Where on Windows are the drivers for installed devices located?

You can view the list of files for a specific device using the device manager:

  • First you need to go to the device manager.
  • You should find the equipment you need and right-click on it. In the window that appears, go to the "Properties" section.
  • In the next window, select the item "Driver" and click on the name "Information".

  • A list of driver files will appear in a new window.

How to find driver info files in Windows

When looking for driver files to install on another computer, you will also need an installation info file. It is located in the C: \ Windows \ inf folder.

This folder is hidden. To view its contents, you need to activate the display hidden files and folders. The installation info file is in .inf format. Its name can be found using the following steps:

  • Launch Device Manager.
  • Find the device of interest in the list of equipment and right-click on it. Then go to "Properties".
  • In the window that appears, select "Information" and click on the item "INF name". The file name will be shown on the "Value" line.

To simplify these steps, you can use Driver program Genius. With its help, you can automatic mode transfer drivers to another PC. This manager can update components via the Internet. The program itself will find, select components and determine which service packs to install.

If you are going to reinstall the OS, it is recommended that you keep a list of your drivers so that you do not waste time looking for them in the future. Simply put, one must always create backup... The utility will help to convert this data into an installation file. The program works in different languages, but there is no Russian, so you have to get used to. Also, the utility requires a license for its advanced features.

If you assembled your computer on your own, buying components for it separately, then in this case all the drivers for the computer can no longer be found on one single manufacturer's website, as it would be easy to do when buying a ready-made computer (this is described in the article “How to find driver if you bought a laptop or a ready-made stationary computer! "). After all, you were buying a non-finished computer that would belong to some manufacturer, would have its own model and drivers for which you could download everything at once from one site. Once the computer is assembled from spare parts you independently selected, it means that it will no longer correspond to any model and belong to some manufacturer, because this is already your creation :) Therefore, you will have to look for drivers separately for all devices from which the computer was assembled. This also includes the case when, after purchasing a ready-made (already assembled) computer, after some time you decided to replace some hardware.

Now I will show you how to find all the necessary drivers for a self-configured computer manually, via the Internet.

What drivers are described in the article:

So, you yourself have selected all the components, assembled the computer, installed Windows and you see that the drivers are not installed for all devices, and may not even be installed for almost any. You can find out if all the drivers are installed from the standard "Device Manager" utility. I described how to do this in a separate article.

And to install drivers in this case, there are several options.

Note!
If you have not automatically installed even the drivers for network cards, which does not give you the opportunity to go online from this computer, then all the steps considered below will have to be done from some other computer with Internet access. And after you download everything the drivers, you will need to transfer them to required computer, for example, through a USB flash drive or disk.

Option number 1. Search for drivers manually by device code via devid.drp.su

I consider this option to be the most optimal. The method is to determine the device code and search for drivers on the Internet using this code on various sites.

Suppose that in the device manager we see something like this:

Those. drivers for multiple devices are not installed on the computer. However, it is problematic to determine through the device manager for which devices there are no drivers, because the names are somehow blurry. One can only roughly understand. For example, an "Ethernet controller" is most likely a network card for connecting a wired Internet. The "network controller" is probably Wi-Fi adapter, i.e. network card for accessing the internet via Wi-Fi.

But each device has its own unique number, which the device manager can just show us. And having learned the number, we can find the driver for the device via the Internet.

Let's look at a couple of examples of how to find drivers manually by device code:

First, I'll find a driver for an obscure Simple Communications PCI Controller.

    Determine the device code for which we want to find the driver.

    To determine the device code, click on it in the device manager with the right mouse button and select "Properties" from the menu that appears:

    In the window that opens, select the "Details" tab, and then below, under the "Properties" label, select "Equipment ID":

    First of all, we try to search by code from the lowest (4th) line. Right-click on the 4th line with the code below and select "Copy".

    Trying to find the driver by the code on the devid.drp.su website.

    After you have copied the code, open the site:

    Devid.drp.su

    Let's try to find a driver on it. This site belongs to the DriverPack Solution program, which collects almost all possible drivers. Here you can most likely find a driver for any device.

    Having opened the site, the first thing you need to do is to paste the device code copied in the previous step into the topmost long line and delete everything in this code that goes from the "&" symbol to the end.

    For example, you copied the code:
    PCI \ VEN_8086 & DEV_0166 & CC_0300

    This means that after removing the characters from the "&" you should have the following code:
    PCI \ VEN_8086 & DEV_0166

    If you do not know what system you have, then open Windows search and enter there "System Information", then select the appeared program from the list:

    In the program that opens, in the window on the left, select "System Information" and on the right in the "OS Name" line, your Windows version will be displayed (in my example, in the image below, "Windows 10"), and in the "Type" line - bit depth: x64 or x86:

    Based on this data, we indicate the type and bitness of the system on the devid.drp.su website.

    After the device code is indicated and the Windows version is selected, click the "Search Drivers" button.

    As a result, the page will display a list of drivers matching the hardware code you specified and for your version of Windows. Using the "Download" button, load one of the drivers onto your computer.

    Note!
    If several identical drivers are displayed (as in the image above), then download the driver with the most recent release date in the "Driver version" column.

    By clicking on the "Download" button, the driver will be loaded onto your computer and all that remains is to install it. There is nothing complicated at all in installing drivers, and I touched on this point in a separate article,.

    Note!

    It happens that different drivers will be displayed in the list of drivers, for example:

    This means that the hardware code can be similar for several devices. In this case, you can simply download and try to install all the proposed options until it is installed required driver.

As you can see, the driver was not difficult to find. Now I will consider another example to make it clearer :) I will find, for example, a driver for a device that is designated as an "Ethernet controller" in the device manager.

I click on the device with the right mouse button, open the properties:

In the window, select the "Information" tab, select the item "Equipment ID" from the list and copy the code from the 4th line:

I open the devid.drp.su site, indicate the copied number there, delete everything in it, starting from the "&" symbol. Then I choose Windows version and doing a search:

For my device and the version of Windows I selected, only one driver version was displayed that I can download and install:

That's all!

However, it still happens occasionally that the devid.drp.su website does not find drivers for the hardware code you specified. In this case, there is also Alternative option, which we will consider below.

Alternative search for drivers by device code

If there were no drivers on the well-known devid.drp.su site for the device you need, then you can use this simple method:

    Determine the device code... In the same way, copy the equipment code (4th) line:

    We are looking for a driver on various sites.

    Now we go to the site Google.com and directly to search string paste the copied code, then remove the "&" symbol from the code and everything that follows after it, for example:

    PCI \ VEN_8086 & DEV_1C3A & SS_0780= PCI \ VEN_8086 & DEV_1C3A

    We press the search button and a list of sites that match our request is displayed in front of us:

    Now you need to open sites in turn, starting from the very first (top) and see if it is possible to download drivers on the site.

    It should be noted right away that you will not find the driver you need on all sites, since some of them will not have a driver for your version of Windows, and some of them will have any crap instead of drivers.

    In the example image above, I circled those sites on which drivers can be found most often and without any problems download. These sites are:

    If you dig deeper in your search, you can find other sites where you can download the driver you need. But do not look for drivers on the forums, since this is the longest way. You will have to read all the messages in a row to understand where the link to the driver you need is given.

    Now let's look at a couple of examples of downloading drivers from different sites.

    An example of downloading a driver from driver.ru:

    When you get to the site from the search results, the page will already display drivers, most of which are compatible with your device.

    Here you can simply download in turn all the drivers that the site has displayed and try to install until the required driver is installed. All incompatible drivers will either not be installed, or simply will not work, so you can not be afraid to install something wrong.

    Remember to pay attention to the Windows version the driver is for.

    Keep in mind!
    Drivers for Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 are very often compatible and if, for example, you could not find drivers specifically for Windows 8.1, then try installing drivers for Windows 8. Or if you could not find drivers for Windows 10, try installing from Windows 8.1 or Windows 8. It also happens that drivers for Windows 7 will be compatible with Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows 10. That is, you can try to install drivers from different systems.

    Let's look at an example of the download process from this site. Having found the driver you need, click on the download button below:

    In the next window, you need to confirm that you are not a robot by checking the box indicated (see image below). Then click the "Download" button below:

    And finally, on the next page, we will see a download link at the very top in the form of a file name with the extension:

    Click on it and download the file.

    An example of downloading a driver from members.driverguide.com:

    Going to the site from the search engine, the page will display a list of likely compatible drivers with your device:

    Clicking on the download button will open new page where a large amount of advertising catches the eye.

    Attention!
    Do not click anywhere if there are a lot of advertisements on the site, be careful, otherwise you can pick up viruses and other infections on your computer!

    In the next window, a window will appear in the center to confirm that you a real man, not a program :) You need to wait for the contents of the window to load and click the "Show" button:

    A new window will open, where again we are waiting for the content to load for a few seconds. A code will appear in the window next to the inscription: "Enter". This code needs to be rewritten exactly as it is in the line below ("Your Answer") and press "Return to Page":

    You will be taken back to the home page where the "Continue" button will now appear. Clicking it will start downloading the driver to your computer:

Like this alternative way you can try to manually find the driver by device code. Of course, for this option, I showed by examples downloading the driver only from 2 sites, and their great amount... But the principle of downloading is the same on all sites. The only difference is mostly the interface and sometimes the download order.

But I am more inclined that you can easily find drivers using the main method suggested in option # 1.

Option number 2. Search for drivers on the official websites of device manufacturers

If you did not manage to find drivers for your devices according to the 1st option, then you can do it in this way.

You will need to look at the manufacturer and model of each device in the computer through the documentation for them or special programs (for example, Aida64 or Sysinfo Detector), and then separately look for drivers for each device through the manufacturer's official website or (if there is no driver on the official website) on the Internet by device model.

Let's take this example. In the device manager, I can see that the driver is not installed in the system for the video card and for some other incomprehensible device:

How did you determine what was on the video card? But because if in the list of devices in the "Video adapters" section there is a device "Standard VGA graphics adapter"Means there is no driver for the video card, otherwise the device would have the name of your video card, for example" NVIDIA GeForce GTX980 ".

Let's look at the sequence of your actions:

    Find out the manufacturer and model of the device.

    Note!
    If you have an "Unknown device" in the device manager, then the driver for some device on the motherboard or a special program for the motherboard is probably not installed. Therefore, you must first install all the drivers for your motherboard and programs for it.

    If you assembled a computer from separate components, then you might have left documents for each purchased device, which indicates what we need - the manufacturer and model. If there is no documentation left, then one of the programs that determine the hardware of your computer will help you find out the model. I recommend Aida64 or Sysinfo Detector. The first is paid, but you can use it for free for 30 days. And the second has completely free edition... If you think what to choose, then temporarily choose - Aida64, since the quality of this program will still be higher.

    How to install and use the Aida64 program is described in the article:

    How to install and use Sysinfo Detector is described in the article:

    If you define devices through the Aida64 program then you can determine what kind of devices without drivers by selecting the section "Devices> Windows devices"And then open the category" Unknown "on the right. Information about the selected device will appear below:

    So, in my example, the unknown device has the name "Asus ATK-110 ACPI Utility".

    Above, I mentioned that the unknown device is most likely something on the motherboard, so we will immediately determine which motherboard in the device. To do this, open the "Motherboard" section and go to the same subsection. On the right in the window we will see the manufacturer and the model motherboard: Asus P5KPL-AM EPU.

    Now let's deal with the video card. The video card is usually detected correctly in Aida64 through Display> PCI / AGP Video. As you can see, the program has detected the video card: “ nVIDIA GeForce GT 430 ":

    If you are looking for devices through Sysinfo Detector, then you can see devices with uninstalled drivers in 2 ways. The first one is in the "Deviations" section:

    As you can see, the same device was detected as through the Aida64 program: ACPI / ATK0110

    And the second way - in the "PCI-devices" section, select the "Unknown devices" subsection. Here the program saw 3 "problematic" devices at once and one of them, just the motherboard: Asus P5KPL-AM EPU.

    It is better to look at the manufacturer and model of the video card in the "PCI-devices" section. Find the "Display controller" subsection in the list:

    The example shows that the manufacturer NVIDIA cards and the model is GeForce GT 430.

    So, we found out the necessary data and now we will look for the driver.

    We are looking for a driver on device manufacturer sites.

    We found out that the driver is missing, most likely for some device on the motherboard, or maybe some program specifically for the motherboard. The motherboard manufacturer is Asus, and the model in my example is P5KPL-AM EPU. Since the manufacturer is Asus, we will look for it on the official website of Asus.

    How to search for the official website of the device manufacturer and download drivers from it is described in detail. In short, you need to open search engine Google, type the name of the manufacturer there and open the first site in the search results. Next, go to the "Service" or "Support" section and specify the device model, for example:

    In addition to the drivers, pay attention to the "Utilities" section (you can see it in the list in the image above), because sometimes "Unidentified device" is some kind of not installed special program for the motherboard. Better to install the entire motherboard kit provided on the website to check if that was the problem.

    This example demonstrates finding drivers for a motherboard. If you install all the drivers and utilities for it, then the "Unknown device" from the device manager should disappear.

    Now let's find the driver for the video card. Judging by the data taken from the programs Aida64 and Sysinfo Detector, the manufacturer of the video card is NVIDIA, and the model is GeForce GT 430. Since the manufacturer is NVIDIA, then we are looking for the official website of this company in the same way through Google:

    On the site we immediately see the section "Drivers" and in it the item "Download drivers". We open:

    A window will open where you need to specify the data about the video card. The product type in my example is “GeForce”, if the model is GeForce GT 430, then the product series is “GeForce 400 Series”. It is not difficult to navigate here. Next, in the list of "Product family" we select a specific model - "GeForce GT 430". And it remains to select only the version of Windows installed on your computer and the language of the driver. Then we press "Search":

    A page will open to download the required driver. Press the button "Download now":

    On the next page, we accept the terms of the agreement and click the "Accept and download" button:

In the same way, you can download a driver, in principle, for any device, knowing its manufacturer and model. You just need to find the official website of the manufacturer and indicate the model there.

As a last resort, if, for example, you cannot find drivers on the official site, you can search for them on other sites by specifying in google search an example of such a request: "driver for Asus P5KPL-AM EPU". Instead of Asus P5KPL-AM EPU, you, respectively, need to specify the manufacturer and model of your particular device, for which you are looking for drivers.

Well, in conclusion, I note that if you use Windows 8 and older, then most likely you will not have problems with the drivers. These systems install in most cases all drivers automatically immediately after Windows installations... I tried to reinstall Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 on several laptops and all drivers were automatically installed on each one, as a result of which there was no need to look for them myself.

This concludes the article. Now you can find the driver you want by device code or by its manufacturer and model. Let me remind you that you may need such driver search options if you yourself selected components for your computer or changed some parts in the finished computer you bought.

It is also possible to automatically install drivers on a computer using special programs... This possibility is described in a separate article:

All the best! See you in other articles :)

The problem of finding and installing drivers has existed since the days of Windows. For example, in Windows XP this problem was most acute, since there were no universal drivers at that time, and immediately after installing Windws XP, a whole list of devices appeared in the device manager for which drivers were not found. In Windows 7, 8, 8.1, this problem has become less acute, since these operating systems have universal drivers, which often fit almost every computer / laptop. But we must admit that when using such drivers, some of the functionality either did not work correctly, or did not work at all, for example, the maximum screen size was not used or the video camera showed the picture upside down. Therefore the problem search and install drivers is still the first problem after installing the operating system. In order to help solve this problem, this article was written.

First of all, I want to warn you that all the methods described below are as safe as possible and, if done correctly, will not harm your computer, but nevertheless, I recommend make a restore point so that in case of problems you can return to original state .

So, after installing the operating system, you have undefined devices in device manager .

Find the driver disc.

Quite often, discs are lost, thrown away, and sometimes do not come with the kit at all, so this method is not suitable for everyone, in which case, read the methods below.

Download drivers from the official site.

If you cannot find drivers for a laptop, just go to the official website of the laptop manufacturer, find the model of your laptop (enter the laptop model in the search bar), select the operating system that you installed and download all available drivers.

List of laptop manufacturers' websites:
Acer - www.acer.ru.
ASUS - www.asus.com
HP - www.hp.com/ru
Dell - www.dell.ru
MSI - www.msi.com
Samsung - www.samsung.ru
Toshiba - www.toshiba.com.ru
Sony - www.sony.ru
Lenovo - www.lenovo.com
eMachines - ru.emachines.com
LG - www.lg.com
Gigabyte - www.gigabyte.ru

Below is an example of finding drivers for an ASUS laptop.

If you have a computer, in this case, look at the labeling of each of the computer components (motherboard, video card, network card, etc.) for this it is not at all necessary to disassemble it. Then go to the component manufacturer's website and download the drivers for your operating system version.

Search for drivers by hardware ID.

Another way find and download drivers use the site http://devid.info/ru... This site contains information about a large number of hardware IDs and drivers for them. You just have to look at the ID of the unknown device and use the search to find it on the site and download it.

In order to see the device ID, go to the device manager, right-click on the unknown device, select "Properties"

In the properties window, go to the "Details" tab and in the "Property" field, select "Equipment ID" in the Values ​​field, you will see the coveted set of characters. Perhaps the data will not be in two lines, in this case, check each of the lines by copying it into the search line on the site.

Copy this character set and paste it into the search bar on the site http://devid.info/ru.

After the drivers are found, you just have to download them, be careful because there are quite a lot of advertisements on this site.

In my case, the drivers were for Windows XP x64, although I needed for Windows 7 x64, nevertheless I downloaded the ones that were offered. it turned out that the archive contained drivers for other versions of operating systems, so download the most suitable one, it is quite possible that there will be what you need there.

Installing drivers using programs.

There are many programs to help you find, download and install drivers, the only thing is that these programs are, by and large, paid. In this example, I will consider one of free software- DriverPack Solution. this program is available in two versions, the first version ( online) - installed on a computer / laptop on which there are problems with drivers (it is necessary for the network card to work and have Internet access), scans your computer / laptop and displays a list of drivers that need to be installed, then click the "Install and update" button the program will install all the necessary drivers.

The second version ( full version ) is suitable if the computer / laptop on which there are problems with the drivers does not have an Internet connection or the drivers are not installed on network card... After downloading the program, run the DriverPackSolution.exe file, the program, having scanned the computer / laptop will show you all the devices that require installation and updating, in order to look at which devices will be installed driver and check the boxes "Settings" and "Expert mode". After that, indicate which drivers you want to install (updating drivers is not necessary if you are not experiencing problems with these devices).

After that, the drivers will be installed.

In conclusion, I would like to add - you should not download drivers from suspicious sources, sites demanding money from you, a phone number, sending SMS, etc. you run the risk of being tricked or downloading a virus.

I think many of the laptop users have faced the problem - how to find a driver for a laptop... Time passes and sometime, new laptop, reads "mow"... I'm not talking about the drenched (coffee, or beer - which is even worse.) Notebook-netbook keyboards. I mean the Operating System. In this case, problems with the operating system depend on many factors ...

  • How well the user knows the computer ...
  • How often does he use ...
  • Does one use ...
  • Etc.

There is such a phrase - "80% Windows errors are half a meter from the monitor screen ... " I absolutely agree with these words!

As a person who has been professionally engaged in the repair and adjustment of computers and laptops in his city for more than 10 years, having an address book with more than 4 thousand registered clients in his phone, I can say absolutely reliably - if you have problems with your computer, first of all - look for the problem in the lack of your own knowledge ...

And my site was created just in order to replenish your knowledge, so - welcome to the new lesson!

Windows is "not childish" buggy!

It is impossible to work on the Internet!

Games freeze and crash!

You can, of course, try to restore the system. But, there is one caveat ... If your problem is due to viruses, for example Sality-virus, or Conficker, then in this case it is worth reinstalling the system. At least because these viruses find in your OS, all files with the extension .exe and infect them ... And the file with the extension .exe is a startup file for any program. In this case, it is easier to reinstall the Operating System, saving before that the data you need on a free disk partition.

Even your antivirus that you paid for once1500-2000 rubles, this is a file with the extension.exe . Do you really think that you will be given the perfect remedy for all viral problems for2000 rubles ?! Yes evenfor 10000r. you will not find an ideal remedy, because here it already plays a role -Human factor. As it is impossible to eradicate crime, so isit is impossible to exclude all computer viruses!

Therefore, we do not strain, but decide what to do. If your computer technician did not take care that, after installation, you (on a laptop or computer) Windows systems, make an image (scan, copy) of your system disk using the same program Acronis True Image, which will contain all installed and required programs, as well as drivers, then - after reinstalling Windows, you may encounter the following:

  • You will not be able to launch games that were previously launched.
  • There will be no Internet access.
  • The SD cards from your camera, etc. will no longer be detected ...

An unscrupulous technician may tell you that the problem can be solved by replacing the video card, or hard disk, or something else. Just to make more money from you. Or because the master himself lacks knowledge ... Just because you are not smart enough in computers ...

Just in order to somehow eliminate such situations (I don't like "hucksters" and non-professionals ...) I write articles and lessons on repairing and setting up a computer.

This does not mean that if the master told you that you need to change HDD then he is deceiving you! Never offend a person with mistrust and reproaches if you understand little about the problem and have called the master to solve your problem! Simply, if you have a lack of knowledge, doubts arise. (and doubts arise - EXACTLY from LACK OF KNOWLEDGE!), then you can always ask a question on my website and during 24 hours - get an answer. I visit the site about once a day.

Okay, enough preludes. I hope the information above was helpful to you. Let's get to practice!

How to find a driver for a laptop:

So, let's take an example of a problem with the video driver, if after reinstalling Operating System you, suddenly :), stopped running games - go to "Device Manager":

1. left mouse button, click "Start" (lower left part of the Monitor Screen),

3. in the emerging context menu- press the left button "properties". (If you have Windows XP, then - click the left - "Hardware" - "Device Manager". If you have Windows 7, in the left block of the menu, click "Device Manager").

4. In the window that opens, we find the equipment marked Exclamation mark(usually signed - as unknown device, but there may be another inscription). The main thing, remember - if in front of any equipment there is Sun. Sign- This means that the driver is not installed. In Windows 7, if during the installation of the Operating System, the installer could not install the driver on the video card - the "standard video driver" will be installed by default (This happens if your copy of windows- older equipment in your laptop or computer. In this case, the video adapter in the "device manager" will not have Sun. Sign, but your games will still not start until you install the "standard video adapter" instead - the correct driver for your video card!).

5. Click the left mouse button twice on the problem equipment. A window will appear in which we click "Information" and left-click in the "properties"Equipment ID. Next, select it by clicking on it once with the left button :) andpress "Ctrl" on the keyboard and without releasing it, press "C".

6. In the free space of the desktop on the monitor screen, right-click, select "create", then left-click - "text document".

7. Open the created document, click once with the mouse anywhere in the document window and press on the keyboard "ctrl" + "V".

8. We open an Internet browser and in address bar insert - http://www.devid.info/ru/


9. In the opened driver search site, in the search bar (where it says - "Enter driver code") paste the copied code from text document and press "Search":

If you have Windows XP, then we select XP in the list of proposed drivers, if you have Windows 7, we select a driver for Windows 7. Be sure to take into account the capacity of the Operating System! What is your system and bit depth (it can be 32 or 64 bits), you can see it in the properties of the computer (an example for 7 is in the first picture above ...). Having selected the driver, click on the icon to the right of it in the form of a floppy disk. A window will appear prompting you to download the driver, click once with the left mouse button on the file with the extension .zip or .rar

Click again on the file with the extension .zip and get the file upload window. We choose "Save":

12. In a new window, select where we want to save this file(By default, "My Documents" or "Desktop" is offered) and wait until the file is downloaded to your computer ...

13. Open the downloaded file archive with the driver, find the file with the extension .exe and run the installation by double-clicking on it with the left mouse button.

After finishing the driver installation, we restart the computer or laptop and we are glad that it disappeared in the "device manager" Sun. Sign!

Thank you for attention!

There are often times when you need to install a driver for a particular device, but you don't have it on hand installation files, only a folder with drivers without any there Setup.exe... To solve this situation, you need to manually install the driver. How to do this is described below.
Consider Windows Vista ... When a user connects a device to it, something like this pops up

If we do not want to install the driver (for example, because we have not found it yet, we click Cancellation) But if the driver has already been unpacked into a daddy, you can continue. Click on Find and install a driver
We refuse to search on the Internet (it rarely ends successfully) by clicking on Don't search the Internet

If the device came with a disc, insert it into the drive and press Further(the system itself will try to find the required driver on the disk), if not, click on There is no such disk. Show other possibilities


In this case, in the window that appears, select


Click on the button Overview and set the folder where the drivers are located


Then the installation process will start


That's it - the driver is installed


As you can see, there is nothing complicated in this process. The main problem is to find drivers

Now consider the case when there was no such pop-up window or we closed it by clicking Cancellation... In this case, open the menu Start and right-click on the item A computer
... In the menu, select Properties


Then on the top left we run Device Manager


As a result, a window opens with system devices... Devices that are marked exclamation mark need to install drivers. In the example in the screenshot, such a device is Acer Module


Right-click on it and select from the menu Update drivers ...... In the window that appears, click on Search for drivers on this computer


Click on the button Overview and specify the folder with drivers for our device. We press Further


We are waiting for the driver to install


As a result, we have the installed driver


It is important to note that if you specified the folder with the wrong drivers, they will not be installed!

Now let's look at the manual installation of the driver in Windows XP... It is in many ways reminiscent of the installation in Windows Vista

Let's start. Go to the menu Start or on the desktop, right-click on the icon My computer and select from the menu Properties


A window will open System properties... Go to the tab Equipment and click on Device Manager


A window will open with the devices installed in the system. Here, as in Windows Vista, devices that need driver updates are marked with an exclamation mark (I no longer have devices with uninstalled drivers, so for example I took sound card). We click on one of them with the right button and select from the menu Update Driver ...
The system properties of the device will be displayed without an exclamation mark.

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