Sometimes you get drivers that are only in .inf form without any easy installer. Here's how to install those.
1: Open Device Manager
There are multiple ways, the fastest is to Win + R, type devmgmt.msc and press enter.
There's also right clicking on My Computer/This PC and going to properties.
For 2000/XP, click the Hardware tab, and it's the first section.
For Vista-10, at the top of the left pane, but below Control Panel Home is Device Manager.
For later versions of 10 and 11, scroll down and it should be the second item under Related settings.
For Vista+, Device Manager is one of the listed items in the Control Panel, so that's another way to access it.
2: Find your device with missing drivers
Usually this will be something under Other devices with maybe a relevant name. For example, Ethernet Controller is your LAN card/controller, and Network Controller is your WLAN card. Some devices, like for example a missing video driver, may be in their respective category, like Display adapters for GPUs.
3: Right click this device and select Update Driver Software
4: Click Browse my computer for driver software
5: Find and install the driver
Usually you can just click Browse, point it to the folder where your driver is located, click Next, and it just installs it and works.
If this doesn't work, instead click Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer, click Next again, click Have Disk, point it to the folder where your driver is located, click the .inf file, click Open, and click OK. Now it should show a single or maybe a few compatible device drivers. If there are a bunch of listed drivers, you might have the wrong one. After you pick the driver, click Next, let it install, and then Close.
If the driver fails to install, in Windows 8+ some drivers may require you to Disable Driver Signature Enforcement to install the driver, but not require it to use the driver afterwards. If you encounter issues installing the driver, hold shift and click restart from the stock Windows start menu or lock screen. Keep holding shift until you see a Choose an option screen. From here, click Troubleshoot, Advanced options, Startup Settings, and Restart. Once the system reboots and you see a Startup Settings screen, Hit the number or function key for Disable driver signature enforcement. Usually 7 or F7.
Some drivers may require this to even use the driver. In Windows 7 and earlier, you can just spam F8 at boot until you see a similar Startup Settings screen, and from there pick Disable driver signature enforcement. However instead of doing this every boot, it may just be easier to enable test mode by opening an admin CMD or command prompt, and typing bcdedit /set testsigning on and pressing enter.
If the driver still fails to install, or it doesn't work, you may have an incompatible driver or just the wrong driver. In this case, you should double check it's compatible, or find a different driver.
Hope this helps.
How to manually install drivers with Device Manager
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