1 How To Install Windows XP/Vista/7 Drivers Using DriverPack Solution

How To Install Windows XP/Vista/7 Drivers Using DriverPack Solution

Hello. I'm going to teach you how to install Windows Drivers easily. Let's define first what is driver (or device driver). Driver is a software that acts as translator or communicator between the hardware and the applications or operating system. It usually communicates through computer bus or any communications subsystem that is connected to computer. To simplify, I'll say that your hardware may not work, or may work but not that good. So, if your computer hardware doesn't have drivers installed, its not going to perform at its best.

How To Know If My Hardware's Driver Is Installed?

Click on Start > Right click on My Computer > Manage > Device Manager.

 You will see the uninstalled devices are categorized as Other Devices.

How Can I Install These Drivers?
There are two options for this job. Manual or Automatic.  In manual installation, you will have to go to the manufacturers official site and look for your device model whereas in automatic, you just have to click some buttons and the software will do the job. Windows have its built-in feature to update the software automatically thru Windows Update, but sometimes it doesn't do the job well. Let's try to update my Ethernet Controller thru Windows Update and see if it can get the job well done.

Right Click on the device and choose Update Driver Software

Choose Search automatically for updated driver software.

Windows is now searching the device driver software.

Windows was unable to install the device driver software.

Not because Windows was unable to do the job means that you'll have to go for a manual installation. This time, we will use an open source automatic driver software installer called DriverPack Solution by Kuzyakov Artur Vyacheslavovich IP. You can download it here. The whole driverpack is like 3.15Gb in size, but trust me, it's worth it. Here, I am going to install my device driver using the DriverPack Solution.

 Right click on the DriverPackSolution.exe and Run as Administrator.

The program automatically detects missing hardware and will tell if it is in the database. Click the Install button

It automatically creates restore point so you can rollback changes.

Device drivers to be installed will be shown. Choose the drivers you want to install and click Start Installation.

Once started, you'll just have to wait for 5 to 10 minutes depending on how many drivers are to be installed.

Now its done. All drivers are installed. It is advised to restart your computer for the drivers to take effect.

Go back to Device Manager and check if the drivers are installed. In my case, the two devices are now installed.

So that's how you install device drivers. Although these automatic drivers installers are supporting most of the drivers, sometimes you might have a device which is not yet in the database, so you have to wait for the Driverpack Solution software update or you can manually install the driver.
That's for today! Thank you for reading my blog. :)