How to install a conflicting device driver manually in Windows 8

On some occasions we can find problems when installing the drivers of a device in our new Windows 8. Today in Xataka Windows we bring you a simple tutorial with the steps that you must take to install a conflicting device driver manually in Windows 8.

Thanks to the automatic driver search system of Windows 8, when we connect a new device to our computer (network card, drive, printer), the system itself is in charge of automatically installing everything necessary for the proper functioning of the device.But sometimes, usually due to the age of our devices, Windows can't find the drivers on your system, here's what to do in those cases.

Search for drivers on the manufacturer's website

This time, we show you an example with an OKI model C3300n printer connected to the same network, which is detected by our Windows 8 system but lacks the drivers in its database. The steps to perform are the following:

1. The first step we must take will be to look for the link to the drivers on the website of the manufacturer of our device.

   

2. After performing the search, we can see that the second result contains the drivers we need

   

3. Within this link, we will click on the button download and we will save the file wherever we want.

   

   

Generally, the file that we download is a file with the extension exe that will be unzipped later in a folder and among the unzipped files there will be one of They have the extension inf This file extension is the one generally used by all drivers and it will be the file that we have to select when we install our device.

Unzip the file and install the drivers

Once we have downloaded our file, we must carry out the following steps to correctly install them in our system:

1. We execute the downloaded file and in our particular case we can see a dialog window like the following, in which we will click on unzip

   

2. Once uncompressed, if we access the folder where the files have been extracted (in our case c:\OkiDriver\Oki3x00) we can see that we have a file with the aforementioned extension.inf

   

3. The next step we must perform is to press our start button and write Control Panel

   

4. Within the control panel, click on the option Add a device

   

5. In our case, we select the printer we want to install and press Next

   

6. A dialog window opens and we go to the directory where we had unzipped the drivers, showing only the one with the extension inf

   

7. Once selected, we will have our printer in the list to choose it, we press continue and we can finish the installation of our printer correctly

   

As you can see, thanks to the versatility and efficiency of our system, in a few simple steps at the click of a mouse, we will have our conflicting device correctly installed and working in our operating system Windows 8.

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