Safe: load network drivers previously and secure
Before you install Windows 7, you should start with the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to check that your hardware with the new operating system works. If the program before problems with your network card warns, you should first check with the manufacturer whether the device is a Windows-7-compatible driver is available. Information, usually on the manufacturer's website or via the hotline.
Alternatively, work in most cases, drivers that have been developed for Windows Vista. Look for 32 and 64 bit: A 32-bit Vista drivers will not work on Windows 7 in 64 bit. Since you can not properly equipped network or wireless card does not connect to the Internet to search for drivers, you should back up before installing the Windows 7 compatible driver. Often these are also on the device CD.
Windows hardware conflicts check
Whether Windows 7 after the installation has correctly recognized all the devices, see the Device Manager. The open, by pressing successively on Start, Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, and Device Manager button. Here is an overview of the components. Has Windows 7, a device not recognized, because some drivers are missing, it is a yellow warning sign bearing. If the operating system in no category could classify the device, it is under "unknown device".
Update Driver
If Windows 7 can not install a device directly, Microsoft is providing the opportunity on the Internet and your computer for drivers to check automatically to correct the error. Click the Device Manager, right-click the device and select the context menu update driver software. Click the option Automatically search for current driver software. Windows 7 searches the Internet for the latest drivers and install them automatically, unless the search was successful.
Hardware manufacturers to find out
Is Windows 7 at the automatic driver search not find anything, you have to look for a driver, so the hardware works. Do not know which device driver is missing, you can do it on the system analysis program Everest to find out. Install and start the program. Under devices, Windows devices, Unknown is an overview of the unrecognized devices. Select a record: In the lower window you will then be vendor and device name appears.
Driver Download
If the manufacturer has the machine is not a CD with Windows 7 driver settled, visit his website. Here you will generally find the latest drivers and is not detected hardware. Alternatively, call the telephone hotline. Important: For Windows 7 version with 64 bit you need 64-bit drivers! Which version of Windows you have, you will see under Start> Control Panel> System and Security> System.
INF file to install
In a ZIP archive contains the driver INF file as often and not as an executable EXE file. This INF file contains the necessary information about the device. To install the driver, unzip the ZIP archive and click the right mouse button on the INF file. From the context menu to choose "Install".
Install the driver manually
Have you found a suitable driver, download file downloads the. If the driver is an executable file, start the driver installation by double-clicking the file. Is it the file is a ZIP archive, unpack it by the download, right-click the file to and click the context menu to extract all choose. Find a location and click on the button extract.
Open Device Manager again on Start, Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, and Device Manager. Click the right mouse button on the incorrectly installed device and select the entry update driver software. Now select the option to search on my computer for driver software. The button Browse to open a window that the path to the downloaded driver file set in. Confirm your choice by clicking the button Next. After a brief confirmation of the device is working now with Windows 7.
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