Tip: Updating drivers yourself is not difficult, but there are programs that will more or less do it for you. See our for reviews of the best ones out there. Time Required: It usually takes around 15 minutes to update a driver a Windows, even less time if the driver is self-installable or you get it via Windows Update (more on all of that below). Follow the easy steps below to update drivers in,,,, or: How to Update Drivers in Windows Optional Walkthrough: If you'd like to follow the process below, but with more details and screenshots for each step, use our instead. You should always check with the hardware manufacturer first when looking for an updated driver.

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When downloaded direct from the hardware maker, you'll know the driver is both valid and the most recent for the hardware. Note: If no drivers are available from the hardware maker, check or even the disc that came with the computer or piece of hardware, if you received one. There are also if those ideas don't work. Important: Many drivers are integrated with software that automatically installs them, making the below instructions unnecessary.

If there's no indication of that on the driver download page, a good bet that you'll need to manually install a driver is if it comes in the. Drivers obtained via Windows Update are automatically installed. • With open, click or touch the >or [+] icon (depending on your version of Windows) to open the category that you think contains the device you want to update the drivers for. Tip: If you don't find the device you're after, just open some other categories until you do. Cisco 7970 Software. Windows doesn't always categorize hardware the way you and I might when we think about a device and what it does.

• Once you've found the device you're updating drivers for, the next step depends on your version of Windows: Tip: See if you're not sure which you're running, then proceed with the steps below. Windows 10 & 8: Right click or press and hold on the hardware's name or icon and choose Update Driver Software. Windows 7 & Vista: Right click on the hardware's name or icon, choose Properties, then the Driver tab, followed by the Update Drive. The Update Driver Software wizard will begin, which we'll completely step through to finish the driver update for this piece of hardware. Windows XP Only: Right click on the hardware item, choose Properties, the Driver tab, and then the Update Drive. From the Hardware Update Wizard, choose No, not this time to the Windows Update question, followed by Next. From the search and installation options screen, choose Don't search I will choose the driver to install option, again followed by Next.

Skip to Step 7 below. • To the How do you want to search for driver software? Question, click or touch Browse my computer for driver software. • Next, on the Browse for driver software on your computer window, click or touch Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer, located near the bottom of the window. • Touch or click on the Have Disk. Button, located on the bottom-right, under the text box. • On the Install From Disk window that appears, click or touch the Browse.

Button on the bottom-right corner of the window. • On the Locate File window you see now, work your way to the folder that you created as part of the driver download and extraction in Step 1. Tip: There may be several nested folders within the folder you extracted.