Lesson 3: Installing, Updating, and Troubleshooting Windows Vista Device Drivers

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Figure 1-16

Warning icons indicate problems with hardware in Device Manager

To install the driver manually, perform the following steps:

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Make a note of the device driver’s location. If you have downloaded the driver off the

Internet, it was probably in a compressed format. You need to extract the files from the

compressed archive before you can install the device driver.

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In the Start menu, click Control Panel. If the Device Manager icon is not displayed, click

Classic View in the left side taskbar. Then, double-click Device Manager. In the User

Account Control dialog box, click Continue.

NOTE

User Account Control

You will learn more about the purpose and function of User Account Control in Chapter 5,

“User Account Control.”

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Locate the device that you want to install the driver for and right-click it. Select Update

Driver Software. In this example, the driver for the USB Video Device shown earlier in

Figure 1-16 is installed.

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In the Update Driver Software window, click Browse My Computer For Driver Software.

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On the Browse For Driver Software On Your Computer page, shown in Figure 1-17, click

Browse, and navigate to the folder containing the driver software. After you have located

the folder containing the driver software, click Next.