How Computer Drivers Work

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Tip 1 - What is a driver? - Windows Help

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Chery Howaniec | permalink

Learn about driver software, which is necessary to make devices work with Windows.

For further reading: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-is-driver ^[1]

Tip 2 - How Does a Device Driver Work? | eHow

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Hardy Leenders | permalink

How Does a Device Driver Work?. Device drivers are used by the operating system to interact with hardware. The operating system uses functions in the driver to carry out actions on the hardware. Each driver has different functions, and each function corresponds to different hardware.

For further reading: http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4621707_device-driver-work.html ^[2]