You'll then be prompted to insert the disk that came with the hardware device. If it doesn't do this for some reason, you'll see a wizard page that asks you to allow Windows to search online for the driver software. The Driver Software Installation component should use the driver that you've just made available on the computer to complete the installation. The Driver Software Installation component will then search for preconfigured drivers.įigure 3-4 Start the installation by clicking Locate and Install Driver Software (Recommended). In the Found New Hardware wizard (shown in Figure 3-4) you can then click Locate And Install Driver Software (Recommended) to continue with the installation. If Windows Vista detects the device but isn't able to install the device automatically, Windows Vista starts the Driver Software Installation component, which in turn starts the Found New Hardware wizard.
By default, optional updates are not selected for installation. On the View Available Updates page (shown in Figure 3-3) you can review the available updates.In Windows Update, click Check for Updates in the left pane and then click View Available Updates.To install available device driver updates, follow these steps: Because of this, you'll want to view all available updates on a computer, rather than only the important updates, to determine whether device driver updates are available. The exceptions are for essential drivers, such as those for video, sound, and hard disk controllers. Typically device driver updates are seen as optional updates. In Windows Update, click the Check for Updates link.In Control Panel, click the System and Maintenance category heading link and then click Windows Update.Click Start and then click Control Panel.
Although a complete discussion of working with automatic updating is covered in Chapter 15, the basic steps of checking for updates are as follows: After upgrading or installing the operating system, you should check for driver updates and apply them as appropriate before trying other techniques to install device drivers. If a device wasn't installed because Windows Vista didn't include the driver, the built-in hardware diagnostics will, in many cases, detect the hardware and then use the automatic update framework to retrieve the required driver the next time Windows Update runs, provided that Windows Update is enabled and you've allowed driver updating as well as operating system updating.ĭriver updates are not installed automatically. Unlike earlier releases of Windows, Windows Vista automatically detects devices that were not installed after upgrading or installing the operating system.
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