Drivers Drive the Hardware

Drivers are a little piece of software that helps the operating system talk to the hardware of a computer. In the case of a printers and other external device, a driver is a computer program allows interaction with that hardware device.

The communication breakdown between Windows Vista and the computer hardware has been the main complaint about Vista. This is nothing new. Even today, people are having issues with Windows XP and certain hardware device drivers.

What makes Windows Vista so difficult for some people is how different Vista looks in comparison to Windows XP. Because the look is different there are a few people forget how to get to the device manager. So let us review how to get to the Device (Driver) Manager.

• Left click on Start Orb
• Go to the Control Panel
• Left click on System
• Then on Device Manager in the left margin
• Right-click the device you want and choose Properties
• On the next window you can have a look at the driver situation
• Then, click on Driver tab and update Driver

In the next window you can locate the driver on your computer manually or let the wizard look for it,also on the Internet if you are connected. In some case something goes wrong or the device has problems, click on Rollback and Windows brings you back to the previous driver.