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:
- How to Update Drivers in Windows 7
- How to Update Drivers in Windows Vista
- How to Update Drivers in Windows XP
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.
