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Where/How to find the required Windows XP driver files?

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Where/How to find the required Windows XP driver files?

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It is usually best to get the latest version of the Windows XP driver for your device directly from its manufacturer’s website. Alternatively, you can use one which probably came on a CD-ROM with your device. DriverLoader needs the .INF or .NTF file from the driver as a starting point. Then it will ask you to provide one or more .SYS files and possibly other files as required. All of these files are usually uploaded via the Web Configurator. If the driver is distributed as a single .ZIP or .EXE file, you should first try to extract its contents with the ‘unzip’ (or perhaps also ‘unrar’) utility. If this doesn’t work, you might have to extract or install the driver on a Windows machine first and copy the files from there. Sometimes they end up under C:\Program Files\ManufacturerName\Drivers or similar locations. You might also want to look in C:\WINDOWS\Inf and C:\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers (by displaying the files by date, you should be able to identify the ones recently added for the WL

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