How to Restore Drivers in Windows 10

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to restore drivers in Windows 10. You save all the installed software drivers so you can restore them if needed without having to download them again. By the way, we will use the Device Manager to restore the drivers. This is because Windows uses device IDs as driver names. This makes it difficult to find the right driver for a particular device. The good thing is that when you use the Device Manager, you don’t have to deal with this. The Device Manager will take care of finding the appropriate driver from the backup. So follow the steps below to restore the backed-up drivers.
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How to Restore Drivers in Windows 10

Step 1: Right-click on the Windows 10 Start menu. Then Device Manager
 

 
Step 2: In the Device Manager, find the device for which you want to install the driver, right click on it and select Update Driver.
 

 

 
Step 3: In the Update Driver window, select the Browse my computer for driver software.
 

 
Step 4: In this window, click on the Browse button.
 

 
 
Step 5: The above action will open the Browse window. Here, browse for the driver’s backup directory and select it. Remember, just select the root backup directory.
 

 
Step 6: Make sure the Include subfolder box is checked and click the Next button.
 

 
Step 7: Windows will now scan the backup folder, find the appropriate driver and install it.

Step 8: After installing the driver, Windows will display a confirmation window. Close it.

Step 9: Restart Windows to apply the driver changes.