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"How Do I Update Drivers in Windows?"

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Question: "How Do I Update Drivers in Windows?"

You might need to perform a driver update in Windows for all kinds of reasons. Usually, a driver update is used as a solution to an issue with how Windows works with a piece of hardware.

Updating a driver can also enable new or updated features for the hardware.

Answer: Drivers are updated in Windows by using a driver update wizard from within Device Manager.

The driver update wizard walks you through the entire driver update process, making updating drivers a fairly painless task.

Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP all have slightly different processes for completing driver updates:

Updating a hardware device's driver is usually the first troubleshooting step to any hardware issue in Windows.

In particular, a simple driver update will correct many of the popular Device Manager error codes.

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