How to Find and Donwload Compatible Drivers for Windows Computer

Do You Pay Attention for the Drivers on your Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP Computer?

Computer is like a human, user need to pay attentions for its “health” regularly. Especially, the drivers in Windows computer need to be update frequently. However, how are you to know download and install drivers in Windows computer?

Drivers is a communicated way between devices and operating system. Operating system just can recognize devices with drivers. If you find there are something wrong with your computer, like no sound, no network or printer can’t work or be unrecognized, etc. Then you may need to update drivers for your Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP PC.

In a Windows computer, many devices including motherboard, sound card, network card and other device need a driver. However, how to identify whether it need to be upgraded? We can find a number of methods can help you. Let's get the best one.

How to Check and Download Latest Drivers for Windows Computer

Before you update Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP computer drivers by yourself, you need to check the present states of drivers in your computer and learn the information of them. Press Windows button and R to open Run feature, try cmd to call command prompt window. Then type “driverquery” and press enter button to get a list which shows all installed drivers on your Windows system. And you will see the date when the driver was installed.

This step is important for you to learn the situations of drivers in computer. And because of learning, you can choose way to update and install Windows PC driver easily.

Generally, user can use 3 kinds of ways to upgrade drives in Windows computer.

1.Windows system Device Manager updates Windows drivers

User also can use Device Manager to check out drivers. This feature is more directly to learn drivers of devices. And right click a device, choose Properties, you will learn more info about the driver. Besides, you can choose “Update driver…” to download driver for this device. If you see a device sighed with yellow exclamatory mark, it means there is something wrong with driver for this device. Update driver may help you fix it. After you click Update driver, Windows system will search and download driver for device. If it need to be update, it will download the latest one.

2.Auto Updates feature in Windows help you update driver for computer automatically

For the guy who knows Windows system a lot, he will enable Auto Update feature to make Windows update software by itself. You can set it in control panel relevant settings. However, it is not easy for you to learn what driver is installed by Windows and the driver may not work perfectly even it is download by Windows.

3.The 3rd-party driver program is the best way to manage drivers in Windows

Although Windows provides ways for user to upgrade drivers in Windows computer, they may not so convenient to use. So, some program is designed for convenient using to manage drivers in Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP. Such as Driver Talent which is a good program designed for use to download, install, update, backup and restore drivers on Windows computer. It will show all information of driver in your device and let you know their situation. And the installing of driver also will be operated by it.

This way is well recommended by me. I can easily know more about my computer drivers. And installing will be easier.

Of course, other ways also can help user check and download compatible driver for Windows computer. Please let me know in comments!