Drivers and their purpose In order to connect equipment to a computer, it is not enough to simply physically connect it to the system unit. In order for the operating system to recognize this equipment, you must have a special program - a driver. Only after

Installing the driver and configuring data sources The driver distribution consists of one executable file named ibgem_21_desk.exe (for the desktop edition of the driver version 2.1). To install the driver, you need to run this file. There are two ways to create

Installing a driver using a setup program Often, you use a setup program to install older hardware, and the standard driver installation approach described above is not suitable for this. However, when I run the installer it refuses

16.3. Driver rollback Sometimes you have to not only install drivers from scratch, but also update old drivers. The need to install a new driver is explained quite simply: a new driver is almost always a corrected version of the old driver

2.2 Compiling and installing the driver. The project generated by DriverWizard is located in the XDSP directory. This directory contains the VC++ Workspace files: XDSP.dsw, XDSP.ncd and XDSP.opt and two directories - sys and exe. The XDSPioctl.h file is also located here. It describes the control codes

This is not such a common situation, but when servicing a large fleet of user computers, sometimes it happens that for some device the manufacturer has not released drivers for the required OS version. This could be an old version of the OS, or an old device. All in all. Sometimes you need to install drivers manually. They are usually supplied in the form of several files. Most often they have the extension inf or sys, but they can also be different.

The procedure for installing a driver in Windows 10 depends on how you install it. Each method has its pros and cons. The most important advantage is that any user, from beginner to expert, can choose the most convenient one for themselves, avoiding system errors and program crashes in the future. We will look at each method in detail separately. Remember that the most important thing is to use drivers from reliable sources so as not to damage the operating system or accidentally launch a virus, the elimination of which will take much more time and effort than installing any driver.

What you need to install the driver

In order to install the driver manually, you need an installation disk or special software that will help you step by step through the entire installation procedure. Below we will look at one of these programs - Driver Easy. There are situations when, due to incompatibility, the driver from the installation disk generates an error. It is in such cases that we need programs that will help us find and update the driver. In addition, this option will be more acceptable for owners of netbooks, which often do not have a disk drive. For such cases, there is an option to install the necessary driver from a USB drive, we will also look at that today, since this method has its own characteristics.

Manual installation - instructions

Installing the driver manually using Device Manager

1. Open the Windows 10 Control Panel by pressing the Win + X key at the same time (Windows key and X key) and left-click on “Control Panel”

2. For convenience, it is advisable to set up small icons.

3. Click on “Device Manager”.

In the Device Manager window, expand the categories and find the device you need. Then right-click on the device name and select Update Driver Software. The photo shows an example of installing the Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller network adapter driver.

Installing the driver manually using Driver Easy

1. In the main window of the Driver Easy program, click on the driver of the device that needs to be updated. After this, you will see the standard task manager window, which was described above. Select the device to update.

2. You will see two options in the pop-up window. Click Browse My Computer to install the driver software.

3. Click Browse to locate the downloaded driver file.

Click the Down Triangle button in Driver Easy, then select Open File Location to open the driver folder.

For convenience, you can copy and paste the location of the downloaded files into the field.

The path to the file:

As you already understood, the update takes a lot of time and requires basic knowledge of working with a personal computer. In addition to updating manually, Driver Easy can automatically search, download and install all drivers that need updating. But, as we already said, this is not safe, since this function works in automatic mode, and in this case it is impossible to make a backup copy in case of a serious failure.

Installing the driver from a CD or DVD

Almost all computer and hardware manufacturers provide a set of drivers for various hardware devices. For example, the driver CD that comes with your printer contains drivers for many different printers, not just the one you purchased. When installing drivers, make sure that you are installing drivers for your printer model and not for another one. Also, make sure that you are installing it for the version of Windows that is installed on your computer. The process of installing a driver from a CD is no different from the standard installation process of any other program. Be sure to follow all instructions in the installer the first time you run it. In some cases, you need to remove the old driver before installing the new one.

If you have a driver CD but your computer doesn't have a drive or it doesn't work, you can also load the drivers from a USB drive.

Installing drivers from a USB drive

After copying the drivers to a USB drive, you can install the necessary software on your computer. Make sure the drive is connected to your computer, open Windows Explorer and find your device name in it. For example, if you have a USB drive that is assigned to the E: drive when connected, then you need to click on the icon named E: in order for the contents to open.

Once the drivers are found on the disk, you must determine exactly how they will be installed on your computer. If the directory contains executable files or an installation file (extension *.exe), then you can install the driver using this file. If the drivers are compressed into a ZIP file, you will need to extract the file using archivers such as 7-Zip and WinZip.

Installing inf file

If the above recommendations did not help you, then all instructions for installing drivers and hardware devices are always contained in a file with the .inf extension, which is located in the C: Windowsinf folder. The folder containing the information files is protected and hidden. To make it appear, in the folder view settings, check the “Hidden items” checkbox. To find the information file for the device you need, follow these instructions:

Open Device Manager;

Right-click on the selected device and select “Properties” from the menu

After that, go to the “Details” tab. Expand the list and select “INF Name”. The file name will be displayed in the "Value" field.

Once you know the file name, return to the Task Manager, select the device, click "Update Driver" and specify the path to the *.inf file (in this example it will be C:Windowsinfoem3.inf)

Open Device Manager (Start -> Control Panel -> Device Manager)

Click the Browse button...

and, of course, the OK button

The driver installation will begin.

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Forced installation of drivers on Windows 7

But the main condition for successful driver installation in this case is that the driver must be completely unpacked and the file with the *.inf extension must be accessible. Often, hardware manufacturers package their drivers not only with standard ZIP archivers, but also using intricate programs of their own making. Here, for unpacking, the Universal Extractor program can be very useful, which can be used to unpack almost any driver installer.

It is also advisable to disable User Account Control before installing the driver.

Let's look at how to force install a driver in Windows 7 using the Defender AV-W2035 webcam as an example. There is a driver AV-W2035_VISTA.zip downloaded from the Internet, which we successfully unpacked into the folder C:/AW-0350-MIC-VISTA. First, we need to look at where our file with the *.inf extension is located. To do this, in Windows folder properties you need to enable the display of file extensions so that file names are written with their extensions. Or use the very useful Total Commander program or a similar file manager. After looking through the folders (you can use the file search), we found the file snpstd2.inf

You should remember the entire path to this file so that later it will be easier to find it in Explorer. We connect the camera to the computer and wait for Windows to complete all its operations to detect new equipment.

Open Device Manager (Start -> Control Panel -> Device Manager)

The USB camera device without installed drivers is immediately visible. Right-click on the camera and select Update drivers... from the context menu.

In the window that opens, click Search for driver on this computer

A window will open with a list of equipment categories.

In order not to waste time or rack your brains, just point to the first line Show all devices and click Next

In the next window we will see a list of available drivers in the system (if any). But since we know that we have a folder with the driver, without selecting anything from the list, we click on the Install from disk button...

Click the Browse button...

and using Explorer we look for our file with the *.inf extension, select it with the mouse and follow the Open button

and, of course, the OK button

Now our driver will appear in the window with a list of available drivers (if the driver is not suitable for the equipment, the system will generate an error).

Here you should pay attention to the Only compatible devices checkbox. The fact is that if the connected equipment has not been tested for compatibility with the installed version of Windows, then a driver for it will not be found, despite the fact that it may be completely working. Therefore, in some cases, this checkbox should be unchecked and the driver search repeated again.

So, after the file with the driver is found, select our driver in the list with the mouse and click Next

The driver installation will begin.

A Windows warning may appear stating that the driver being installed is not digitally signed or has not been checked for compatibility. If you are sure that the driver was taken from a reliable source and is exactly intended for the equipment being installed, then you should absolutely not be afraid of such a warning, but should agree to further install the driver. When the installation is complete, the system will display a window indicating completion. You can verify that the driver has been installed successfully in the Device Manager, where the connected device will no longer have a question mark, and its name will change to the correct one created by the manufacturer. In our case with the camera, this will be a device that appears called USB PC Camera (SN9C103)

The installation is complete, you can safely start using your new equipment!

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Installing the touch screen driver on HP TouchSmart 7320

And for the driver to work, you need to find a device with the same PID and VID among the “Composite USB devices” and update the driver for it by specifying the .inf file.

After which everything works great. Zhzhzhuzh!

But now you can point your fingers at the big screen.

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And here an unpleasant surprise awaited me - either the native driver turned out to be crooked, or Windows, or the wire... in general, the driver stopped working, the Windows device manager reported that the device was fully operational, but when I asked for adb devices in the console, I received an empty list and, Naturally, it was not possible to test the application on a tablet.

I wrote a request to TeXeT support, they even answered me with a link to the driver itself, which, as I was already convinced, did not work. I started looking for an answer on the Internet and found a bunch of different assemblies of this driver and manuals, but still none of them started up properly, and even the native driver from the SDK didn’t work at all, which made me despondent... but not despair.

Here I decided to try my hand at writing drivers using the good old method of scientific poking and opened the driver inf file. What gave me hope was the understanding that the software part of the adb interface on the tablet side should be identical for all devices, and USB worked anyway. And so, after several unsuccessful attempts at manually editing the inf file, I found a recipe for treating the inf file seasoning so that it would install and, most importantly, work.

So let's get started.

Step 1. Download the driver. If you haven't already done so, open Android SDK Manager, find the Extras section, check the Google USB Driver box, and click Install Packages. It's simple. Wait for it to load.

Step 2. Find the driver and make a copy of it in a separate folder. Go to the %android-sdk%\extras\google\ folder and see the treasured usb_driver folder there. Copy it somewhere, and we will carry out further manipulations there. In principle, you can edit the “original”, but I preferred to keep the original intact just in case.

Step 3. Edit the inf file. In the folder, open the file android_winusb.inf and look for lines like this:

;Google Nexus One %SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0D02 %CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0D02&MI_01 %SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_4E11 %CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Insta ll, USB\VID_18D1&PID_4E12&MI_01 Make a copy of these lines, replace Google Nexus One with %name_of_your_device% for identification in the future and... open the windows device manager. We are looking for our device there (Android, Android Composite ADB Interface or something in this style). Open the device properties, the “Details” tab, select the “Equipment ID” item in the list and see this picture. We copy the line that is most similar to the one shown in the figure (It is, in theory, just a little shorter), and paste it into our inf file.;TEXET TM-7025 %SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0003 %CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0003&MI_01 %SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0003 %CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_0003&MI_01 In %SingleAdbInterface% we remove the end of the line, as you can see, in %Composite AdbInterface% is inserted entirely. There’s probably no need to repeat everything twice, but I already have everything and I’m too lazy to experiment :) Save (be careful - in some cases you need to run notepad with administrator rights, because in user mode you won’t be allowed to overwrite inf file).

Step 4. Driver installation. Now that everything is prepared, go back to the device manager and remove all previously installed adb drivers (if any). We update the list of devices and see our device without drivers. We open its properties and select “update drivers”, select the installation from the folder, specify the folder with the corrected inf and start the installation - our driver is instantly found, but during installation it may swear about incompatibility with the question “should I continue, nasalneka?” Let's continue. That's it, the driver is installed.

Step 5. Final. To be precise, unplug the USB port, wait until everything is detected, open the console (Win+R, enter cmd) and write adb devices. If everything went well, we see the treasured list item, indicating that adb now sees our device.
From now on, you can safely launch eclipse and build programs, enjoying convenient automatic assembly, installation and the ability to debug directly on your device.

If the adb command does not work for you at all. Computer -> Properties -> Environment Variables. We look for the Path variable and at the end we add (in no case overwrite) a semicolon at the end, and then the address of the folder where adb lives (usually %android-sdk%\platform-tools\). After a reboot it should work.

Sometimes adb does not start automatically when the system starts. Start manually.

What was it?

It's actually simple. For some reason (Winda is a must-have / progers have crooked hands / the Google inf-file was written only for native Google devices / the Higgs bosons have ruined everything on your computer), Windows does not want to use the Google driver for non-Google devices that are not recorded in the inf-file. Apparently, everything there is tied to these ID equipment. But the software on the vast majority of Android devices is identical in terms of the debugger connector to the PC, so the driver should communicate normally with any Android device. Our task is to deceive Windows and force it to accept the device as a “driver-compatible” one, which we did by adding its ID to the driver inf file. I hope this manual will help someone get their own Chinese or other device for which they forgot to make a normal adb driver when assembling the system, or for those who are bothered to download the official driver from the device manufacturer (this can be so annoying that it’s faster to do everything described above - This happened to me with the driver for the LG E510 phone).

P.S. I have not conducted mass testing of this method, so I cannot guarantee that it will work 100% in all cases. But it worked for me on Windows 7, and then on Windows 8. The file had to be edited separately for each time, but I don’t think that’s such a problem.

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Installing the driver manually in Windows 7

The method of manually installing drivers for programs and devices sometimes helps when the usual automatic installation fails. Let's say, a recent example is installing an audio card driver for Windows 7 installed in VirtualBox. There are other examples, so this method can be quite useful.

So, you can install the driver manually as follows.

Press the key combination to open the Run window. Enter the command hdwwiz in it and click on the OK button.

The Hardware Installation Wizard will launch. In the first window, click the Next button. In the second window, select the Install equipment manually selected from the list radio button, and then click the Next button.

In the new window, select Show all devices and click Next.

As you can see, a list of all available devices will now be shown. You can search for what you need or install the driver from the disk. To do this, click on the Have disk button.

The Install from Disk window will open, in which you need to click the Browse button and navigate to the folder on the disk where the required driver file with the .INF extension is located.

Driver is a specific control program that provides the operating system with information about connected equipment and provides mechanisms for its use. Many such software products contain quite complex functionality, processing a wide variety of information passing through the equipment being serviced. This can be audio and video information, data streams of scanning, printing and network machines, information about keystrokes, mouse movements, interaction with portable media, various mobile phones, etc., etc.

Information about the installed hardware can be found by going to the “Control Panel”, selecting the “System” section and clicking the link or button “Device Manager”

In the tree list that opens, all devices visible to the operating system will be visible.

What are the installation methods?

If, when connecting new equipment, the operating system was unable to automatically configure the appropriate software, then you can go in two ways:

1. Use special programs for search and automatic installation.

2. Find and install the necessary software yourself.

Both of these methods have their advantages and disadvantages. The first option is certainly more convenient and saves a lot of time. And when using standard equipment, this approach will give good results - all the hardware will work as it should and without failures. In addition, when using the latest versions of such automation programs, you will receive the most recent versions of driver files. You can read more about this method on this page of our website: .

Despite the significant convenience, it often happens that it is not possible to install the control program automatically due to the fact that it simply is not in the database of the selected utility. In this case, you will have to do the setup manually. Although it takes more time, this approach is the most reliable. After all, having received the control program directly from the equipment manufacturer, you at the same time receive guarantees of its full compatibility with the device being installed, taking into account all the nuances of its operation. Such nuances may not be taken into account in universal collections.

How to get the driver?

Typically, all the necessary software is included with the purchased product on an optical disc. In this case, it is often enough to insert the disc into the drive, launch the application and follow the prompts during the setup process.

If the disk is lost, or you want a more recent version, you can do this on the equipment manufacturer’s website in the appropriate section, which is usually called “Service / Support”.

When searching for the necessary files, you should not forget which version of the operating system you need them for. Because applications developed for Windows XP most likely will not work normally on newer operating systems, and 32-bit software may refuse to function in a 64-bit environment. And vice versa.

It may happen that you end up with outdated equipment. And you won’t be able to just run it on the latest versions of the operating system. In this case, you can try installing it in compatibility mode with older versions of Windows. Unfortunately, this does not always lead to a successful result. And the problem of the lack of normal support for new versions of the OS forces users to refuse to use many completely working and useful products.

Manual driver installation

Typically, control programs are supplied by manufacturers as installation applications. After starting the installation, the user receives prompts and follows the installation steps without any problems to cope with the entire setup process.

But a fairly common situation is when such friendly software is not provided. And many users do not know what to do in this case.

The procedure for dealing with such a situation is described below using the iRiver IFP-700 MP3 player as an example.

To save information recorded on the microphone of this player, you must both install its driver and then use the special iRiver Music Manager utility. But unfortunately, it is not possible to download the necessary files on the iRiver official website. Moreover, from the contents of the page on the site it is clear that this player is designed for an OS no newer than Windows XP.

Accordingly, to guarantee success, you will need to install this player in Windows XP.

After a little searching, I managed to get this archive with the necessary files:

Unpacking the contents of the archive

and we see that there are no exe files in it. But there is, which is described as “Installation information”.

It is this file (complete with neighboring ones from this folder) that the operating system needs to successfully connect the player to the USB port.

We connect the player with a cord to the computer and see that the following typical window appears:

If we go the usual way and select automatic stop, then after a long display of such a window

a failure message will appear. Therefore, we press the “Back” button to take an alternative route.

In this window, instead of the automatic method, you should select the “Install from a specified location” option

Click the browse button and select the folder into which we unpacked the files from the zip archive.

As a result, the search string should contain the path to the folder in which the inf file is located:

Once the process is complete, a success window appears:

You can further verify this by going to Device Manager and seeing the presence of an installed player there:

Results

Using the methods listed in this article, you can successfully install control programs for the devices you use. And knowing how to install a driver manually using an inf file will allow you to maximize the number of equipment you use without involving third-party specialists. In addition, using official software from the websites of device manufacturers will significantly increase the reliability of your computer.