In the Device Manager, select the device for which you want to update the drivers. In the System Properties window, select the Hardware tab. Next, select System in the left-hand panel (If you use the classic view, you can click System immediately). Next, select Printers and Other Hardware.
In the Start menu, select the Control Panel. In Windows XP the steps to install a hardware driver update manually are almost the same, but the screens and selections differ a bit. Click the Browse button, and select the location where you extracted the driver files.Īfter you selected the driver file location, click the Next button to update the drivers. In the next screen, select Browse my computer for driver software. Right-click the device, and in the popup menu select Update Driver Software. If the UAC message comes up, click the Continue button. In the Control Panel, select Hardware and Sound. Open the Control Panel from the Windows Start menu. Installing Drivers in Vista and Windows 7
If there is no file with the “.exe” extension in the folder with driver files, you will need to manually install the driver update. Another option is to right-click the “.exe” file and in the popup menu, select Run as Administrator. Note: Make sure that you are logged in with Administrative rights when you want to install a driver in Windows Vista or Windows 7. In the example below the “.exe” file is called “DPInst64.exe”. An installation wizard will guide you through the driver install process. Again, simply double-click these installer programs to install the hardware driver update. In most cases it will be called “setup.exe” or “install.exe”, but other program files with the “.exe” extension are also possible. Within the folder with the driver files, you would typically find a driver installation program. Windows supports the “.zip” extension, but if required get a program like 7-Zip to uncompress the driver files. However, if the driver update file has a “.zip” or “.rar” extension, you need to manually uncompress the driver files. Once the files are extracted, you will see the driver files that are required to install the driver update. You often need to specify a destination for the driver file extraction. In the case of a self-extracting driver file, executing the “.exe” file will result in the extraction of the compressed driver files. A reboot might be required on the end of the driver installation. Follow the instructions of the installation program to complete the hardware driver installation. Simply double-click the driver file to execute the driver installation process. If the driver file has the extension “.exe”, that means the driver file is a self-installing driver file or a self-extracting driver file. Driver updates normally come as one, often big, single file.
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