How to Update a Driver in Windows

Hi! This is Mike Callahan, Dr. File Finder and welcome to your butterscotch.com tutorial on how to update a driver.

Now, many devices on your computer use device drivers to communicate between themselves and the PC so click on Start. Go to Control Panel. Double click on device manager. And when that opens, you see all of the things that are part of your computer. We’ll just pick DVD, CD-ROM drives. Now, click on that, highlight the drive, right click. And you see here Update Driver Software. Click that, you can tell it to search automatically for an updated driver. It will look on your computer and on the internet. That’s generally the best option or if you know exactly where it is on your computer, you can say browse my computer but we’ll pick this option. If there’s a new driver, it will find it. If not, it will come back and tell us that the best driver is the one that we’re currently using.

The best driver for this software is already installed but if it wasn’t, we would have our new driver, just click and it would installed and our driver would be updated and that’s there is to it.


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